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Celebrating Stories of Your Life - Week 4

Celebrating Stories of Your Life

$75.00 for all 4 Sessions

A 4-week Series for Writing Your Life’s Stories

Mondays, November 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

10:00am-12:00pm

The Nest (Room 105 of the back buildings at Light of the Valley Church)

9270 Bruceville Blvd.

Elk Grove, Ca.

Our engaging hands-on workshop begins by discussing where stories come from.

See various samples of ways to preserve individual stories using journals, memory books, art work and other creative projects.

We make it easy to write your stories by practicing techniques to provide structure and add details to your story.

~Practice mind mapping techniques

~Share meaningful objects and their stories

~Use memory prompts

~Opportunities to share stories each week.

~Multiple handouts and resources provided for further study.

*Bring paper to write on each week. And/or stories already written to share!

Session 1: Where Stories Come From

Session 2: Meaningful Objects and Photos

Session 3: Identifying Stories as “Memory Joggers”

Session 4: Writing on a theme to create a collection of stories

*Supplies Needed: Pen and paper, meaningful objects.

Facilitated by Janice Kelley

For any questions, please email Janice at outdoorjan@att.net