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November 2, 2024
10:00 am CDT - 12:00 pm CDT
Held via Zoom
Ellen Blum Barish
CEUs: 2
Carl Jung famously wrote that the first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego and the second half is going inward to let go of it. This workshop is designed for those looking to turn a story from their life to the page as a personal essay or memoir – to let go of ego in order to make art. Writing personal narrative is a lot like psychoanalysis – each involves remembering, returning and rejourneying. However, thoughts and reflections expressed verbally can easily disappear after the therapy session ends. Writing commits the story to specific words and solidifies it in one’s memory. Together these processes mirror the archeological one in which there is some digging, decoding and depiction. Ellen Blum Barish will discuss phases of writing this kind of personal story and will offer tools to support where you are or would like to be on this journey.
This is a single-session, two-hour, online workshop. It includes slides, writing samples, prompts and discussion.
About the Instructor
Ellen Blum Barish is the author of the memoir, Seven Springs, an essay collection and a contributor to two anthologies. Her essays and poems have been published in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Tablet, Lilith, Brevity, Full Grown People, Five Minutes, Still Points Arts Quarterly, Yellow Arrow Journal and Ritualwell. Ellen has taught writing at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago and Story Studio Chicago, tells stories on Chicago-area stages and works privately with writers on essay collections and memoir.
*Program CEUs are an additional $15 processing fee. The current CEU processing time is 2-3 weeks.
Venue: Zoom: The C.G. Jung Center
Description:
This event will be hosted online through Zoom.
Further info will be provided after registration.