Have you ever wondered if there may be well-being benefits from polishing your work for publication? This gentle path can help you get there.
The latest offering from Innings Gate Co.! Turning Pages attentively guides participants through a process called Therapeutic Editing for Creative Pursuits, helping turn reflective writing such as Morning Pages, journal entries, or free writes into polished pieces – with the end goal of one day (soon?) submitting for publication!
Therapeutic Editing for Creative Pursuits
If you’ve been perusing IGCo.’s website, you will already know what therapeutic writing is, but you’re probably wondering what is therapeutic editing? Therapeutic Editing for Creative Pursuits is a new concept that IGCo. founder Carolyn Grisold is developing as part of her doctoral research at the University of Dundee in Scotland. It is essentially an intentional act of combing craft and care to edit existing pieces of writing that came to be through self-reflective practice – remembering that there are unique factors involved in this specific kind of work (such as risk of exposure or shame, relationships to consider, and the state of flow to get into). The resulting works of art could be prose, poetry, performance or anything in between!
Inspired by the adage “Publish or Perish,” therapeutic editing exists to push writers to the next level – polishing the work – accessing even more well-being benefits beyond writing. By focusing on a careful approach to craft, therapeutic editing helps writers achieve a sense of accomplishment, self-worth and self-efficacy, and even get in touch with their truer self.
This IGCo. workshop will introduce the framework of therapeutic editing and give you a chance to put it into practice with your own writing.
Please note: this can be a sensitive experience
While all IGCo. workshops take place in a safe, inclusive and supportive environment, due to the process of therapeutic editing, the emotional effect of which does include lows as well as highs, Turning Pages can be a sensitive experience. Previous exposure to therapeutic writing and/or safeguarding boundaries within creative writing is recommended.
Facilitated by Carolyn Grisold, M.A., Innings Gate Co.’s reflexive writing workshops have been running since 2014. Carolyn’s graduate studies focused on using reflexive writing as a way to help prevent workplace burnout, and there are many other benefits to this expressive art – such as rejuvenating our inner artist, developing a sanctuary through regular creative practice or simply finding more joy in daily life.