Women’s Journal Writing Group Forming: There’s Still Time to Join the 5-Week Session

Do you need a peaceful place to write out your jumbled thoughts, or your unspoken dreams?

The 5-week Journal Writing Group is a place where women can safely write down their lives, letting thoughts tumble out of their bellies, leaving their critics, their monkey minds, behind.

The group will meet for five 90- minute sessions, each Wednesdays from 6-7:30 pm, beginning January 15^th, led by Key West writer, Susan Wadia-Ells.

Recent participants describe their experience:

• “Writing and sharing journal entries with a small group of women has been fun and companionable, but, more importantly, the weekly class has kept me focused, inspired and encouraged to begin writing again.”   S.C.

• “Meeting new people, hearing their shared thoughts on paper and being surprised by my own, in a safe environment, is a special experience.”  S.J.

• It was exhilarating, it was fun; I loved it!  I hope I can continue another session.”  K.L

Wadia-Ells, a long time journalist, change agent and health writer, has led journal writing groups at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, University of Vermont, Vermont College and for  American Women in Psychology conferences. She holds a PhD in women’s autobiographical writing, and has studied journal writing practices with Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones) and with Lamont Poetry Prize-winning author, Minnie Bruce Pratt.

Wadia-Ells is also creator and contributing editor of The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories, Seal Press; the recent ebook, Busting Breast Cancer: Birth Control Drugs, and the forthcoming paperback. Busting Breast Cancer: 7 Simple Steps to Protect Our Daughters/Ourselves from this Unnecessary Disease. 

Cost of the 5-week program is $125, or $30/session. The group is limited to 10 women and meets in Old Town, with free parking available.

To learn more about this self-learning methodology, or the upcoming five- week program, contact Wadia-Ells at [email protected] or at 978 578 1546.