Autobiographical Writing
Apr 13, 2025 1:00PM—4:00PM
Location
ONLINE: Eastern Time (USA, Canada)
Cost $25 - $100 (sliding scale)
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APRIL PUBLIC ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH YVONNE MEESTERS
Writing about your life does something different to you than telling about your life story. Autobiographical writing is a field of expertise within biography.
By means of short writing exercises you will describe memories factual and sensory.
Due to the nature of the writing exercises, you get a different and often surprising view of your life story, which you thought you knew so well. The opportunity to read aloud and listen to the stories of others in a safe atmosphere turns out to be an enriching experience. Writing talent is not necessary. Anyone can do it! Your story is good, as it is. Trust your pen, and it will surprise you!
In the biographical work, we try to discover the meaning, coherence, and significance of events in our lives. In this workshop, we will try to make something visible of this coherence in the course of life on the basis of a few memories.
Yvonne Meesters studied geology at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. At the age of 29, she met anthroposophy, and that turned out to be what she had been looking for.
In her midlife, she decided to professionalize what she had been doing all her life: listening to life stories of other people and she took up the education of biography at the Institute of Biography with Rinke Visser and Josien de Vries. She started her own practice “Dialogos” in 2000, and since then is working as a biography worker, mainly practicing autobiographical writing with groups throughout the Netherlands and in Belgium. She teaches biography to teachers of Waldorf secondary schools within the University of Leiden, and in Amsterdam.
She is a teacher at the Institute of Biography, teaching autobiographical writing to her Dutch colleagues as a field of expertise within the biography.
THIS IS A 3 HOUR WORKSHOP!
Please be prepared with blank paper, a pen, and an open heart. A quiet room is ideal.
In order to respect the privacy of our participants, we do not record any of our sessions on zoom. The link will be sent to you the day prior to the workshop to the email that you registered with.
Online Public Workshop: Sliding scale suggested donation is $25.00 – $100.00
You can pay by PayPal and or mail a check to CBSA:
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