The Life Righting Collective runs courses for anyone who wants to learn to write about their experiences. The approach promotes self-discovery, self-recovery and more effective communication. We raise funds to make courses available to those in need of sponsorship and to provide platforms for these life stories to be published. Sharing experiences with a wide readership can help reduce discrimination and promote mutual understanding.
Thank you for showing me that my feelings are the fuel and inspiration for my writing and are not to be feared or hidden from, but entered into and embraced because they are what will allow what lands on the page to be authentic, healing and raw. I had hundreds of stories winding their way through my head and for the first time in a long time, I felt that my stories matter and that they must be told in order for me to make sense of my life and who I am. Thank you for creating a space in which I could discover that I have the courage to do that.
This was an extraordinarily rewarding week. Dawn has a remarkable talent for identifying the conversations we all need to have with ourselves, first and foremost, before we embark on storytelling for others.
Dawn is a wise and gently insistent guide whose vast personal experience illuminates the shared space. Through visualisation and from hearing the skillfully chosen extracts from other writers' work, I was constantly reminded to return to my body and my feelings and the resultant change in my writing has been incredible. Sharing our writing and getting feedback in the intimate and safe space of small groups was at once terrifying and transformative. It was a deeply healing experience. Thank you.
Attending the memoir course was unexpectedly empowering. It was an intense experience and took me deep down into the very roots of my life experience, even to places I have not dared explore for a long time. It was easier to get there than I had expected and the fruits of the deep work are treasures to behold. I have learned so much from doing the exercises, not only about how to write well and with real heart melting authenticity, but also about the patterns of my life experience and my perspective on my own story. It is an opportunity to get inside and on top of ones life at the same time and take control of ones own story by observing it in a safe and supportive nurturing environment.
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