We each carry untapped potential for joy, love, resilience, and grit—powerful forces that have been buried beneath the layers of our pain. And we each have wounds that resist healing—hurts that have calcified into scars and tend to trap us into narrow narratives of being unworthy, unlovable, and broken.
What if words are the key to unlocking the treasure box that contains our best selves? What if we reclaim agency over our own narratives and rewrite the stories that have either been imposed upon us or that we have been telling ourselves? What if writing is the medicine and stories hold the cure?
In this generative writing intensive, memoirists and activists Loung Ung and Putsata Reang guide you on a journey of self-exploration and self-discovery through personal narrative. Using a combination of craft talks on key components of memoir, probative writing exercises, journaling, group sharing, and sensory exercises, Putsata and Loung offer a powerful path for surfacing the scars that we carry and transforming pain into purposeful prose.
