Two Workshops

I 

Fiction and Non-fiction Writing Workshop

Writing can be ‘taught’, possibly, but it is more important that it be ‘caught’ – like the common cold and flu! And this we can do by putting ourselves out there, by removing defences and immunity to the world around us and encountering it all – the good, the bad, the ugly, the sublime, the simple, the grand.  The art and craft of writing is also caught like a patient fisherman ‘catches’: either with the single fishing rod and tackle or the big net.

Whether you are a published, aspiring to be, or simply into the act of writing, this 2-day workshop will help the writer in you limber up on these lines:

·        Understanding your own writing aspirations

·        Honing productive writing habits

·        Getting into, and then past, the purely autobiographical

·        The craft of building fiction – the ‘what if’ way

·        Dreaming up characters, relationships and events

·        Matching content and genre for the right fit

·        Editing, rewriting, and evaluating your and other writer’s work

·        The interplay between creativity, inspiration and plain hard work

·        Writing-to-order: The craft and the commerce

·        The ‘writerly life’: enabling and disabling situations

Two sets of dates to choose from, weekend set and weekday set:

Saturday & Sunday 1 & 2 December 2012. Time: 11 to 4 both days

Tuesday & Wednesday 18 & 19 December 2012.  Time: 11 to 4 both days

Place: Row House 4, Daffodil Park, Ramnagar Colony, Bavdhan, Pune 411021. Ample parking and bus-routes

Tel: 9822407232

Workshop fee: Rs 1000/- both days. Tea and biscuits provided. Participants are advised to carry a light dry lunch with them.

 

 

II

Self-awareness through writing

 (This is not a creative writing skills workshop, it uses writing as a tool to delve within.)

What lies unexpressed or unknown within us, controls and limits us.

The workshop aims to help participants explore and express their life’s issues – their sorrows and joys, hopes and fears – through the use of various writing formats/genres. The process of playing with writing forms and content will help participants shed new light on long-standing issues that have become impediments to growth. Participants will grow in self-knowledge as well as empathy with the other.

Transformation and change, however dramatic or quiet, is always therapeutic and healing, as this workshop will demonstrate. The experiential nature of the workshop is designed to give participants insights into their attitudes and behaviours, and to help them view life issues, and their way of handling them, in new and different ways.

This 2-day workshop is of therapeutic value for all those who feel caught in a whirlpool of emotions or in an inflexible grid. It will leave participants with a new understanding of themselves, their relationships, and some of their blind-spots.

The 2-day workshop will be conducted by Gouri Dange (counsellor and writer).

Two sets of dates to choose from, weekend set and weekday set:

Saturday & Sunday 8 & 9 December 2012. Time: 11 to 4 both days

Thursday & Friday 13 & 14 December 2012.  Time: 11 to 4 both days

Place: Row House 4, Daffodil Park, Ramnagar Colony, Bavdhan, Pune 411021. Ample parking and also bus-routes, quiet location.

Tel: 9822407232

Workshop fee: Rs 1000/- both days. Tea and biscuits provided. Participants are advised to carry a light dry lunch with them.