Presenter: Willow Fagan
This workshop will offer a supportive, confidential space in which participants can develop a framework for understanding trauma and the process of creating narratives for change. We will work from an understanding of the connections between individual experiences of trauma and broader social forces/systemic structures.
Through discussion and writing exercises, we will approach trauma as a disruption of the narrative flow of past through present into future. Drawing from the understanding of trauma as disrupting narrative(s), we will discuss the role of discovering / creating / reconstructing narrative in healing and creating change. This workshop will emphasize that, "This is your story and only you can tell it. No one else can tell you how you should tell it." Private healing is usually a necessary step before someone can tell their story in a more public way. Publicly telling your trauma narrative can be part of an individual healing process and a strategy for confronting broader systemic sources of trauma and oppression.
Participants will leave this workshop with a handout which includes a list of resources about trauma, recovery, and writing.
