(Play and Writing the Self)

Back to Elementary

The most incredibly brilliant divergent thinkers are not in boardrooms; they are in daycare, preschool, and lower elementary grades.  The rigors of schooling, researchers say, may free our minds in some ways while caging our imaginations.  It's time to go back to your elementary freedom.  In this workshop, we rediscover the generative magic of play through card games and physical activities (that can be adapted for accessibility).  Together we summon the wonder and innocence of childhood in order to see ourselves and our world as new.  We push aside the apologies that barb themselves within our throats.  We boldly face our shadow creature fears and find an invincibility even in the darkest memory.  We will draw our imagined heroes and those we love.  We will study the work of writers of color and queer writers have the dexterity to step back through time to reshape the world.  Ultimately, we will all come away with the foundations for transformational work by going back to elementary.  

Times in EST. Online Session

With the Blue Stoop

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