Creative Writing Workshops

Creative writing is a powerful educational tool. As a means of self-expression, it creates an environment for participants to tell their own stories and becomes a profound arena for changing personal beliefs and values.

Workshops will focus on the basic techniques of creative expression including overcoming internal and external censorship, discovering their own voice, remembering and rewriting their own stories, personal mythologies, etc. This creates a learning environment in which participants can incorporate the elements the program wishes to teach,
induding:

• Making choices and setting goals
• Social, psychological and health gains to be realized by
  abstinence
• Problems associated with out-of-wedlock pregnancy
  and sexually transmitted diseases
• Benefits of a mutually faithful monogamous
  relationship
• How to reject sexual advances
• Alcohol and drug usage and their effect on vulnerability
  to sexual advances
• Benefits of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in
  sexual activity

Participants will engage in writing exercises designed to teach them to examine their own stories, their own beliefs, values and experiences regarding relationships, self sufficiency and much more.