A 90-MINUTE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP WITH KAREN T. SMITH

Let's Write About Joy

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6TH AT NOON ET

 Are you noticing how heavy the world seems these days? Feeling squeezed from all directions by home, work, and the pressures of living in the modern era? Are you tired of waking up tired? Me too!

Let’s take a few minutes for ourselves to reflect on good things in our lives and environments, and practice skills to help us tune into joy and joyful things. In the Let’s Write About Joy workshop, participants will be guided through writing exercises designed to help develop and hone skills to better access joy. Through these exercises, we’ll focus on building resilience in our mindsets and attitudes, which will benefit us far beyond the page. Join us on May 6th at 11a CDT for a hands-on writing workshop, Let’s Write About Joy. This workshop is appropriate for everyone, from beginners to experts. We all benefit from tapping into joy.

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Here's what you'll leave with:

In this workshop, participants will hone their observational skills through a five-senses exercise, diving deep into at least one sense as they look for joy and then write about it. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice mindset shifting through a specific type of cognitive reframing. Freewriting will give participants a chance to explore these concepts further. There will be time for sharing between participants as a way to connect with other writers and joy-seekers, and time at the end for questions. 

 

Meet your instructor

Karen T. Smith

Karen T. Smith has been writing about joy for a decade, though she did not fully grasp that this was what she was doing until halfway through. Each day she writes about three good things, which are available in her daily newsletter on Substack. From delights in the garden to tasty food to finding coping strategies for cold weather and the dreaded Februaries, Karen has written for thousands of consecutive days in a row about good things, joyful things, things that help her light the dark. In doing so, she’s found ways to lighten the weight of the heaviness of aging, of the pressures of technology, of empty nesting, of difficult midwestern winters. As she will tell you, it turns out that joy is accessible to all of us, it’s right there waiting for us to find it. Join her in this hands-on, informative and fun workshop about finding joy. Let’s do it together! Let’s Write About Joy.
 

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$30

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