Please note that this is an online workshop conducted via Zoom. Participants will be provided information on how to join the online sessions.

This free workshop is for physicians of Texas Children’s Pediatrics which funds this class.

Grief is “not a map, but it provides some scaffolding for this unknown world.” – David Kessler

In this prose workshop for healthcare providers, we will ask ourselves how one can locate oneself within the context of grief and how to recognize the personal, the political and the universal within our stories of loss. We will discuss ways to weave on the page the narratives that have been compelling us not to forget. What possibilities open up in the stories we’ve told ourselves, the stories we thought we knew? With brief in-class readings, we will mine narrative techniques and craft elements from contemporary writers. We will apply these to in-class writing prompts and optional take-home exercises for further exploration. No formal training is required. Writers of all levels are welcome! Come ready to write and engage in some productive on-the-spot creative observations on your own work as well as that of others to discover the potential that lies in our storytelling.