This is an online workshop for K-12 educators and staff that takes place via Zoom

This workshop is full. Please click here for another upcoming Teachers As Writers Workshop, or please sign up on the waiting list here so you receive priority registration the next time this class is offered.

Educators can earn up to 12 CPE credit hours

Creative Reboot: Centering Your Voice

I do not know what I will say until I begin to say it. I do not know what I have said until I begin to hear it. Is this poetry I have composed? It is a process of Centering which I undertook consciously at this moment of writing, committing myself to letting what was there happen. Is this what poetry is, letting what is there be there, radiantly, all of it? –M.C. Richards

As educators, we are often centering the creativity and learning of our students and, while this can be incredibly rewarding, it sometimes means our own writing practice takes a backseat. This course is an invitation to center our own voices, our own creative impulses, and reconnect with our imaginations.

In this workshop, we will nurture our personal writing practice and draw inspiration from a variety of published poetry, flash-fiction, and short non-fiction by writers from a breadth of backgrounds and aesthetic sensibilities. Importantly, each session will combine discussion of examples, participant’s own work, and generative writing activities. We’ll work towards cultivating a sense of trust and vulnerability as we commit ourselves to what is on the page, in our heads, in our bodies—allowing what is there to be there, radiantly, all of it. All experience levels are welcome!