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.
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.
I attended the Life Writing Course with Dawn Garisch in June 2017. As a pensioner on a limited budget I needed to be a sponsored participant and I am forever grateful for this. The Course was an experience for me of deep growth and of healing that continued working positively in my life and definitely in my writing. The Course and Dawn's facilitating leads one in a very sensitive and yet robust way to interior pathways of memory and connection needing to be explored; listening and sharing with other writers gives one the confidence to go in mind and heart where you may not have ventured before. I have recommended this Life Writing Course many times to many people and will continue to do so.
My mcgregor poetry experience is interwoven with my mother like the grapevines and vinke veld and rietjies of her tongue...
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Thank you to Helen Grange, the Argus and Independent Newspapers for this very positive review. Now tell everyone you know...
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Poetry was a pretty good excuse to spend time together in McGregor. Cute, reinvigorated (for some) village with earnest groupies...
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