CALLING ALL STORY GUARDIANS:

“When your story changes, your life changes.”

Did you know you that you are a "story guardian"? People come to you to tell you their stories — and it is a sacred task. The story your clients tells about themselves will determine their self-esteem, their ability to work, and to love. One of the best ways to learn how to work with someone else's story is to work on your own.

In this workshop, we will take a deep dive into your story and work with it the same way we would work with a client’s story.

Content will include:

• Whose Story Is It?

• Your "Life Sentence"

• Recogning and Installing "Sparkling Moments"

• Shadows, Potholes, Steppingstones, & Reflections

• Trauma Release Writing

• Creating The New Story: Insight and Outlook

This course will not only be conducive to your own personal growth, but you will walk away with a new understanding of story and its pitfalls: narrative takeover, narrative tap-out, and rejecting what is true in the story. You will learn specific exercises and techniques from memoir, journaling, psychology, and story medicine that give you hands-on tools for discovery and healing.

Let’s get into the story. Let’s get out of the story when it no longer serves us. And let’s "re-store" the story when it needs healing.

I hope that you join me!

* This workshop will take place via Zoom on Sunday, June 2nd, from 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM. There will be a lunch break and several shorter breaks.

6 CEUs for NYS LCSWs. Sherry Reiter, Ph.D. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider for continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0528. Sherry is also an approved IFBPT Mentor-Supervisor for poetry therapists-in-training.

Note: It is a NYSED requirement that the workshop must be attended in its entirety in order to receive CEUs.