washington, DC | MarylanD

Expressive writing program for hsps and neurodivergents

Writing as Medicine: A Group experience

Writing As MedicinE:

$300/6 Weeks

Mondays 12:30-1:45 on Zoom Feb 4th - Mar 4th

  • SIX 75-MINUTE LIVE GROUP SESSIONS:

    • Write

    • Share

    • Dialogue

    • Takeaways

  • “Roadmap to find your way back home” CO-CREATED BY THE GROUP

  • COMMUNITY WITH LIKE-MINDED SOULS

A Six Week Creative Healing Experience for Sensitive and Neurodivergent Folks.

the process

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Sacred container

We’ll create a safe container for our healing journey, reigniting a sacred space around creativity. Melanie will start the group off with a meditation so we can transition from everyday linear time and be tuned into deep time.

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Write

Melanie will provide a writing exercise that guides a both form and content. We will write about topics relevant to being Sensitive and Neurodivergent. We will write with non-judgment and courage. We will write to grapple with the myriad parts of our selves and our lives.

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deep creativity

We dive deep, following your unconscious, and whatever emerges from your soul. This writing is about opening up, rendering lines from fragments of yourself, culling sense memories, reaching into the body, bringing light, texture, and color.

creative story

Share

You will choose writing to share within the safety of the group. This offers an opportunity for you to experience having your written words be witnessed and received, and offers others an opportunity to be enjoy and be effected by your writing.

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Discussion

Jumping off from our writing, we’ll move into a discussion around the hurts, joys, and wisdom that we’ve encountered our journey as sensitive and neurodivergent humans. We will practice deep listening, so each person feels seen and heard.

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Community

We’ll give and receive compassion and support, and cultivate deep connections in a non-judgmental, safe space. By sharing our experiences, and finding places of connection in our feelings and challenges, we can feel less alone in what we carry.

What You WIll Get

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What You WIll Get *

  • Pieces of writing that capture your feelings and beauty.

  • Feel less alone with the pain as well as joy of being sensitive.

  • Opportunity to sink your teeth into creative work and experience flow.

  • Practice cultivating joy, awe, and feeling proud of yourself.

  • Self-Compassion tools.

  • More space, presence, and less emotional overwhelm.

  • Identification of gifts you may have previously taken for granted.

  • Reframe past shames through identifying the toxic systems that impact our sense of self.

  • “A Roadmap to Finding Your Way Back Home:” insights, tools, and touchstones we build throughout the group.

  • Connection, aloneness, and love

  • Self-worth

  • Rejection sensitivity

  • Intensity and passion

  • Embracing the shadow

  • The burdens and gifts of your sensitivity or neurodivergence

  • Messages we’ve received from family, peers, and society

  • Non-linear time and Deep time

  • Masking

  • Play

  • Living with uncertainty

Writing and Discussion Topics Include

My own journey through the world as an intense, deeply feeling, human, brought me to writing as medicine. I started journaling and writing stories when I was about 7. From that young age, up until now, I feel so much better after I come to the page.

Writing about what makes my mind spin, what overwhelms me, helps those things become smaller, With my inky words laid out on the page, something gets released. I am clear and calmer.

In certain moods, when I’m writing poetry or prose, it feels not only that I am weaving my thoughts into language, but that the words themselves are entwined with my soul. Language is a vital way I connect back to the root of who I am.

As a helping professional, I’ve always been drawn to the creative arts as a mode of healing. Making art offers a space where we can dream, imagine, remember, express, rage, or weep. We can enter terrain just outside of our awareness, and allow what seeks to become known to emerge on the page.

The power of language

To you, My Finely Wired Humans

MY INVITATION

To you, who sees intricate interconnections between things; whose attention is motored by interest, emotion, and passion; for you who thrives on non-linearity, and has a keen sense for beauty, I invite you to explore the circling, cycling pieces of your mind, your heart, and your soul with me, and to have your words and stories be witnessed.

  • I felt so seen from my very first encounter with Melanie - AP

    Feedback from writing program participant

  • Each session throughout our series was truly a highlight of my week. I'm grateful for the chance to learn from you and benefit from your tender help in exploring these deep parts of myself. - AP

    Feedback from writing program participant

  • This program offered me guidance in my journey and offered me useful tools. I loved receiving my "touchstones" packet as a tangible resource to return to. - AP

    Feedback from writing program participant

  • Maybe you have a creative project to share with the world

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 FAQ

  • This is not the kind of writing program where we are working on creating “good” writing. There are no critiques. This is about exploring your own feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Writing is one modality that can allow us to access parts of ourselves in new ways.

  • Groups can be challenging in myriad ways for sensitives. This group is designed for sensitive and neurodivergent people to feel comfortable and safe. You can talk to me ahead of time to let me know any concerns you have and I will do my best to accommodate them.

  • The Group Program will run from Monday, May 6, 2024 - Monday, June 10, 2024. Each meeting will take place on Zoom from 12PM-1:15PM

  • Our live meetings will be 75 minutes/week, for six weeks.