Your Words. Your Story.
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Your Words. Your Story: A Reflective Writing Opportunity for Teens Who Are Grieving
Program Description:
Join us for Your Words. Your Story: A reflective writing opportunity for teens who are grieving – featuring New York Times bestselling author and TED speaker, Dr. Laurel Braitman.
Writing can be a powerful way to reflect and bring clarity to all the thoughts, feelings, and experiences we carry in our minds and hearts. Setting aside time for creative writing can help us feel more connected with the people, places, and moments that have brought meaning into our lives. And, if we choose to share our writing with others, we open up possibilities for connection that might help us feel a little less alone.
Caregivers: The first portion of this event is dedicated to you. We will offer tools for supporting your young person. including practical ways to ask meaningful questions – the kind that open doors and lead to more authentic and interesting conversations and hopefully new insights into their brilliant, intimidating, and hilarious minds.
Teens: The second portion of this event is just for you. No writing experience is required – seriously, if you can text, you can write! There will be guided writing prompts, time for personal reflection, and optional sharing opportunities. We will offer techniques for clear. interesting, and brave ways to share vour voice. You will also leave with tips for shaping your personal writing into submissions for contests, scholarship applications, print and digital publications, and more.
Cost: Free
Registration:
Register by September 2.
Your Words. Your Story is a program of Eluna’s Camp Erin Online, specifically for teens who have experiences the death of significant person. To register for this program, the participating teen’s caregiver must submit a Camp Erin Online Application. Once received, the Camp Erin Online Program Manager will reach out to share additional program-specific information.
All supplies will be provided at no cost to participants in personalized Camp Kit mailed prior to programming. Shipping within U.S.
Facilitator:
Kelly Petersohn is the Camp Erin Online Programs Manager at Eluna, a non-profitorganization with a mission to support youth and families impacted by grief or addiction. Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of service in the field of childhood bereavement; 9 years as Camp Director of Camp Erin Indy!
Featured Facilitator:
Laurel Braitman PhD inspires healing and mental wellness through her bestselling books and her work as the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and the Arts Program. As a thought leader in mental health, Laurel writes and teaches about healing, grief, and emotional wellbeing for all of us-humans and other animals-as reflected in her New York Times-bestselling Animal Madness and her memoir What Looks Like Bravery, about resilience born from loss. Laurel passionately encourages those who have experienced loss and other trauma to communicate bravely and vulnerably in service of their own well-being and that of relationships. She has reached millions of people via her workshops, keynote talks, books, and courses, guiding participants to write their own paths toward healing. Laurel Braitman holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Society from MIT, and is a Senior TED Fellow. Her work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Good Morning America and Al Jazeera. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, on Radiolab, in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic and other publications. Laurel splits her time between the remote Alaskan wilderness and her family’s citrus and avocado ranch in Southern California.
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