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Writing Through Grief: Healing ⁠Through Storytelling

Who: Any parent who has experienced any form of loss more recently or in the past.
Date: November 16, 2024
Day: Saturday
Time:  10:00 am-12:00 pm PST/1:00 pm -3:00 pm EST
Facilitator: Leah Mele-Bazaz 

Cost: Free
Appreciated Donation: $10.00
Choose the "Pay what you Want Amount" at registration to customize your donation amount.

If this 120 minute workshop you will:
-Learn how to use writing to foster a beautiful connection to your baby(ies)
-Read and discuss selected essays on loss
-Work with generative writing prompts
-If comfortable, you can also share your own writing and stories

  • Leah Mele-Bazaz is a wife, mother, teacher, and writer. When Leah gave birth to her stillborn daughter, Laila, she didn't know how to handle this type of grief. She went through depression and isolation and had trouble finding ways to show she was a mother. She started writing her memoir days after she came home from the hospital without her baby and kept a daily journal documenting her grief. With encouragement from her writing mentor, she turned her observations and experiences into a manuscript; Laila: Held for a Moment is forthcoming with Kat Biggie Press (October 2022).

    To read her full bio click here.

Earlier Event: November 12
Pregnancy After Loss
Later Event: November 23
Make Your Own Keepsake Ornament