Gliding and Guiding w/ Terese Marie Mailhot

Saturday August 24th 11AM—2PM Pacific over Zoom
11AM-2PM Pacific / 2-5PM Eastern / 7-10PM BST / 6-9AM NZST (3/24)
(A recording will be made available to all registrants for a limited period afterwards.)

This workshop is about writing love: tainted love, motherly love, platonic love, toxic love, sisterly love, self-love and everything in between. This generative session will explore how to turn real experiences into stories with bite, personality, tone, voice, characterization, structure and heart. I write about those I love with intentionality and mission. I believe a great personal narrative requires heart and craft. Finding balance between heart and craft is tricky business but it's fun. We'll do prompt work to inspire our hearts and then we'll discuss the craft aspects of writing personal narrative about relationships.

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Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$275 Partner

$225 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$175 Companion

$150 Friend

Scholarships are also available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

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Terese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Medium, Al Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times, and Best American Essays. She's the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir.