creative writing workshop
Self-forgiveness: Making meaning as a foundation for change
This online workshop invites participants to deeply listen, reflect and explore through creative writing prompts how making meaning can support us to reconcile ourselves with what has gone before and journey toward self-forgiveness.
The workshop offers a deep dive in to listening to our storyteller, Anne-Marie Cockburn reflect on her life’s journey where her only daughter Martha died at the age of 15 years old.
In addition to the workshop, we are excited to present to you a series of online conversations hosted by our Creative Co-Lead, Sandra Barefoot, in conversation with our storytellers, exploring the questions, complexities and ambiguities that make self-forgiveness so very hard.
Creative writing workshop
Self-forgiveness: Making meaning as a foundation for change
Creative writing workshop
Self-forgiveness: Making meaning as a foundation for change
This online workshop invites participants to deeply listen, reflect and explore through creative writing prompts how making meaning can support us to reconcile ourselves with what has gone before and journey toward self-forgiveness.
The workshop offers a deep dive in to listening to our storyteller, Anne-Marie Cockburn reflect on her life’s journey where her only daughter Martha died at the age of 15 years old.
In addition to the workshop, we are excited to present to you a series of online conversations hosted by our Programme Development Lead, Sandra Barefoot, in conversation with our storytellers, exploring the questions, complexities and ambiguities that make self-forgiveness so very hard.
We welcome you to look at these three options below with access to our workshop and our conversations. Please choose the option that serves you best.
We welcome you to look at these three options below with access to our workshop and our conversations. Please choose the option that serves you best.
We welcome you to look at these three options below with access to our workshop and our conversations. Please choose the option that serves you best.
This online workshop invites participants to deeply listen, reflect and explore through creative writing prompts how making meaning can support us to reconcile ourselves with what has gone before and journey toward self-forgiveness.
The workshop offers a deep dive in to listening to our storyteller, Anne-Marie Cockburn reflect on her life’s journey where her only daughter Martha died at the age of 15 years old.
In addition to the workshop, we are excited to present to you a series of online conversations hosted by our Programme Development Lead, Sandra Barefoot, in conversation with our storytellers, exploring the questions, complexities and ambiguities that make self-forgiveness so very hard.
We welcome you to look at these three options below with access to our workshop and our conversations. Please choose the option that serves you best.
We welcome you to look at these three options below with access to our workshop and our conversations. Please choose the option that serves you best.
Facilitators
Sandra Barefoot
Creative Co-Lead
Sandra Barefoot is The Forgiveness Project’s Creative Co-Lead. She has worked with us for over 13 years, and for 11 of those years she ran our prison programme RESTORE. Sandra’s extensive experience of using the creative arts to facilitate group processes exploring trauma, shame and pain has led her to understand how vital creativity is to express what can be the most difficult and almost impossible route – that of forgiving ourselves.
Anne-Marie Cockburn
Lead Facilitator
Anne-Marie Cockburn has used writing as a source of exploration, imagination and self-actualisation since she was old enough to pick up a pencil. It wasn’t until she reached adulthood that she realised that not everyone reaches for the pen every time life becomes challenging. She refers to it as her fourth emergency service and over the past 15 years Anne-Marie has facilitated/co-facilitated workshops using creativity and writing to help encourage dialogue and healing.
Creative writing workshop – Self-forgiveness: Making meaning as a foundation for change
From £10.00
This online workshop invites participants to deeply listen, reflect and explore through creative writing prompts how making meaning can support us to reconcile ourselves with what has gone before and journey toward self-forgiveness.
In the creative writing workshop our storyteller Anne-Marie Cockburn shares through poetry and conversations with Sandra Barefoot, our Creative Co-Lead, reflections of her life where her only daughter Martha died at the age of 15 years old. She explores how ‘living in her life and learning from her life’ is the way she continues to make meaning from a life she never imagined she would be living.
We’re offering two versions of this online workshop. Please choose the option that serves you best.
Creative writing workshop – £10
- Four video sessions that work in sequence.
- Writing prompts and exercises.
- Downloadable PDF resource.
- All videos have been professionally captioned for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing.
- 1-month access to the workshop.
Creative writing workshop + Conversations on self-forgiveness – £30
- Four video sessions that work in sequence.
- Writing prompts and exercises.
- Downloadable PDF resource.
- Five additional recorded conversations on self-forgiveness (5 x 60 min).
- All videos have been professionally captioned for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing.
- 3-month access to the training.
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Additional information
| Workshop pass | Creative writing workshop – £10, Creative writing workshop + Conversations on Self-forgiveness – £30, Test – £1, Test full package – £2 |
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