Transformations:
Women Writing About Life-Altering Experiences

In this eight-week course, a safe space is created for women to acknowledge, work through and celebrate their own dramatic life changes in the context of writing about them. Students will explore, through example, discussion and writing exercises, the concepts of:

- The four stages of transformation
- The nature of change
- The power of journaling to capture experience in fact and nuance
- Finding the proper form in which to write about your particular experiences
- Perception and point of view
- Bringing your story into focus
- Creating strong female characters
- Giving voice to powerful emotions