In pockets all around the world, so many creative hearts work to build community and create space for healing.
From crisis zones to the therapy room, from poets on stage to poets in gardens, amazing things can happen when space is made for people to explore their own stories, to share their stories.
Connections are formed within the self and with one another, offering hope and joy and healing.
Here are four amazing organizations and people, just a sampling really, of the powerful ways that writing really is therapeutic (summaries from the ogranizations’ materials):
Encouraging writing outside the margins, led by artists and activists who are passionate about supporting the underrepresented, the unheard and the marginalized. With their program of courses, events, and opportunities, the Word Association encourages people to find the power in their own stories.
*therapist/writer/philosopher of the feel, author of “Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room.” Centering the experiences of black women allows for richer therapeutic practices for everyone.
#MeWe International is a network of artists, scientists, and community builders developing tools for creative expression and communication skills-building to advance healing, equity, and social cohesion in a fragmented and polarized world.
Poet, literary artist, mental health advocate, arboretum docent and founder of “Into the Green Workshops.” Her workshops help to unite love of nature with the senses while learning skills to emote and create poetry.
