May 2022
TRAVEL WRITING (MUIZENBERG)
Join us to consider travel writing when you’ve been ‘sheltering in place’ for the last 2 years: revisit the places you loved or hated through writing about them, inviting a potential reader to come with you for the journey. As the late Anthony Bourdain reminded us: “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you… It leaves marks on…
Find out more »POETRY COURSE (ONLINE)
I want to share an approach to poetry that’s taught me how to play with rhythm and meaning, following words and traces of feeling to make new tracks. Acts of poetry guide me, linking the tides of my body and instinct with new ways of thinking, moving across from life to the page and back. FEE: R900 FACILITATOR: Dawn Garisch Bookings via admin@liferighting.com
Find out more »June 2022
MY LIFE AS A WORK OF FICTION (PLUMSTEAD)
We all have unfinished business. We lie awake at night, not knowing how to proceed in a difficulty, our thoughts looping. We have done everything we can to try to resolve a seemingly insoluble problem. Writing can be helpful, bringing new information to the surface, changing anxiety into curiosity, and providing relief and well-being. We will start by identifying core conflicts in your life. These can feel too intransigent or overwhelming to write as memoir, or you might just want…
Find out more »July 2022
WRITING THE BLOCK – PART 1 (ONLINE)
Fight, flight or freeze. When it comes to your writing are you wrestling with the blank page, avoiding it or simply frozen? Do you feel stuck? In your writing, your career, your relationship, your habits? We tend to try to get rid of the blockage, or go round or over it. But what if the stuck place contains information that you need? It’s very common to experience this from time to time and we can help! Join the Life Righting…
Find out more »WRITING THE BLOCK – PART 2 (ONLINE)
Fight, flight or freeze. When it comes to your writing are you wrestling with the blank page, avoiding it or simply frozen? Do you feel stuck? In your writing, your career, your relationship, your habits? We tend to try to get rid of the blockage, or go round or over it. But what if the stuck place contains information that you need? It’s very common to experience this from time to time and we can help! Join the Life Righting…
Find out more »August 2022
WRITING OUR ANCESTRAL STORIES
What story were you born into? What story will you pass on to future generations? We are all born into circumstances that are not of our choosing – historical, political, cultural, spiritual, geographical, mythological, genetic, epigenetic. This writing course is an invitation to explore what you have inherited from those who came before you, and how this affects your life, often in ways that are just below consciousness. We will investigate whether these attributes and attitudes are helpful or harmful…
Find out more »NATURE WRITING (CONSTANTIA)
In this experimental and experiential writing course, we will explore our relationship with the natural world. We have done damage to ourselves and the environment by constructing the idea that human beings are separate from nature. Even our language betrays this attitude – we speak of nature and the environment as though it is ‘out there’. Through experiential exercises and writing, we will explore how the built environment, consumerism, ideas about time, and our fears, anxieties, disgust and distrust keep…
Find out more »EDIBLE MEMOIRS (FISH HOEK)
Our memories of food: they can take us back to the heady aromas of our grandmother’s cooking, negotiations around the contents of lunchboxes, an incident at the family breakfast table, the stench of compulsory school dinners and the hollow pain of going without. Is our first food memory that of our mother’s milk? Maybe so. Often, because nourishing food and adequate shelter tend to go together, good food memories are about a feeling of home – of warmth and belonging.…
Find out more »September 2022
WRITING RETREAT (FISH HOEK)
More info on Sunny Cove Writing Retreat here
Find out more »MEMOIR COURSE (MOWBRAY)
We all have a story to tell from our own lives about how we became who we are. Stories about the way we were born, or about how someone helped us. About how we got ill, or overcame a terrible loss. Stories about how someone we loved hurt us, or how a political or spiritual circumstance almost broke us. Stories about how we were bullied, about how an accident changed the course of our lives, or about how we were…
Find out more »October 2022
LOST/FOUND MEMOIR COURSE (LAKESIDE)
Giles Griffin will be facilitating this course as he has a particular interest in invisible losses. Giles is gay, has worked in HIV education, has met Covid-19 close up and has lost loved ones to both HIV and suicide. All of these have left their scars. It is his firm belief that the work of the Life Righting Collective helps to heal as course participants write of the hurt, anger and grief they feel, as well as the indignities and…
Find out more »MEMOIR COURSE (FISH HOEK)
We all have a story to tell from our own lives about how we became who we are. Stories about the way we were born, or about how someone helped us. About how we got ill, or overcame a terrible loss. Stories about how someone we loved hurt us, or how a political or spiritual circumstance almost broke us. Stories about how we were bullied, about how an accident changed the course of our lives, or about how we were…
Find out more »November 2022
WRITING OUR ANCESTRAL STORIES (KAROO REST)
What story were you born into? What story will you pass on to future generations? We are all born into circumstances that are not of our choosing – historical, political, cultural, spiritual, geographical, mythological, genetic, epigenetic. This writing course is an invitation to explore what you have inherited from those who came before you, and how this affects your life, often in ways that are just below consciousness. We will investigate whether these attributes and attitudes are helpful or harmful…
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