all about the third story workshop
Winter 2025 Session begins Jan. 21 and runs to April 8
The Next session starts in May. Sign up here.
What is it?
The Third Story Workshop is an 11-week virtual program designed to help you reclaim your life's narrative through expressive writing. Conducted during Winter (January-March), Spring (May-July) and Fall (September-November) quarters, the 2025 winter sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 pm ET.
What You'll Gain:
Personal Narrative Development: Craft the backbone of a larger essay or a stand-alone account of your journey to becoming who you are today.
Expressive Writing Benefits: Engage in focused expressive writing, a practice shown to improve mental health, enhance physical well-being, and build positive coping strategies.
Ongoing Writing Tools: Acquire techniques to continue deep, reflective writing beyond the workshop.
Exclusive Alumni Benefit:
As a participant, you have the unique opportunity to audit future sessions of the workshop at no additional cost, allowing you to revisit the material, continue your growth, and remain connected with our writing community.
Who Should Join:
This workshop is ideal for individuals who have experienced significant life transitions—events that have reshaped your self-perception or worldview. Whether these experiences are positive or challenging, they provide rich material for personal narrative exploration.
Examples Include:
Entering recovery (addiction, eating disorders, PTSD, co-dependency)
Living with a chronic illness or disability
Leaving a relationship
Losing a loved one
Changing careers
Experiencing a profound life event of any kind
YOUR Investment:
The workshop is priced at $1,200, as a limited-time reduction—no discount code needed. Scholarships are available for individuals without steady income or those from historically disadvantaged communities, including those with disabilities. Please contact me using this website’s contact form to discuss scholarship opportunities.
Join Us:
Embark on a transformative writing journey that hones your storytelling skills while fostering personal growth and healing. With free future audits, you’re not just taking a class—you’re becoming part of a community.
Click here to register for The Third Story Workshop.
Be a part of the workshop
“I’ve taken music classes from good musicians who don’t know how to teach, and I’ve taken computer programming classes from computer programmers who have no idea how to teach. This is not that. This is a course by a very gifted writer who knows exactly what she’s doing. ”
“One of the most beautiful things that happened in this course is our search for truth — in everything, in the way that we speak about our day, in the way that we are supposed to write, how we are showing up.”
“I’ve definitely never really been in a learning environment where anything that you could do was just gravy. Really, all you had to do was show up. And that was actually true and honest and not a trap. ”
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