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September 2021
The Story You Need to Tell—How Writing Can Transform Your Health and Life with Sandra Marinella and Michele Sefton
This seven-week class will be focused on how to integrate our personal stories and our writing into our lives in ways that will help us heal, grow, connect, and find well-being—even if you are faced with an illness, trauma, or loss. Based on positive psychology, this group will inspire you to quiet your inner critic and to find, write, and even live your best story! Data collected from these sessions show participants lower stress, level of pain and dramatically improve…
Find out more »Special Webinar on September 11 —open to the public at no cost! Come one! Come all!
Surviving to Thriving—How Our Stories Can Transform Us Discover how to thrive—not simply survive! Your stories hold the key. Sandra Marinella’s own cancer diagnosis led her to explore how personal writing and positive psychology could transform her own life. This search led to her pioneering work with thousands of students, writers, and cancer patients whose inspiring stories demonstrate how storytelling and personal writing can help us move past physical or emotional hardships and toward resilience and renewal. Sandra’s book, The…
Find out more »October 2021
The Story You Need to Tell Book Club with Sandra Marinella and Carrie Lynn Richardson
We will read the book and talk about our stories--how our brains are wired with them and can change them. We will explore how to find and highlight the stories that will give us gratitude, increased happiness, and well-being—even amid a pandemic or a cancer diagnosis. Based on positive psychology and created to help anyone touched by cancer or any life-altering condition to move past surviving to thriving. Those who choose can write and share their story. Venue: Zoom Workshop –Sponsored…
Find out more »The Story You Need to Tell –Writing and Resilience Workshop
Your story matters. This workshop will explore the power of our personal stories and personal writing. In these six sessions we will embark on finding, writing, and sharing our stories while learning writing practices that lead us to personal resilience and renewal—especially helpful now! We will hone our unique voices, learn to reframe our stories, and explore how to bring positive insights to our work. There will be prompts to inspire your writing as well as opportunities to share your…
Find out more »November 2021
Expressive Therapies Summit East Coast The Stories They Need to Tell: Therapeutic Writing Tools for Resilience Sandra Marinella, MA, Med Kathleen (Kay) Adams, LPC
Our narratives matter; they define who we are. For this reason, stories are invaluable tools for counselors, therapists, and educators to use in virtually any clinical setting. Based on work with thousands of students, writers, veterans suffering from PTSD, and cancer patients at Mayo Clinic, this 3-hour online workshop will feature inspiring stories that demonstrate five effective ways that personal stories and writing can be used in clinical treatment to support healing and resilience. Participants will be able to identify…
Find out more »January 2022
January for The Story You Need to Tell Book Club with the author, Sandra Marinella
Do you have a story? Ignite your interest in the power of your personal stories. Together we will read the book and talk about how our brains are wired with our stories, and how our stories can define, grow, and even transform us. We will explore how to share and write our stories in ways that will lead to renewal, resilience, and well-being – even amid a pandemic or a cancer diagnosis. Based on positive psychology and pioneering research with…
Find out more »The Story You Need to Tell Book Club – Healing Journeys
Do you have a story? Ignite your interest in the power of your personal stories. Together we will read the book and talk about how our brains are wired with our stories, and how our stories can define, grow, and even transform us. We will explore how to share and write our stories in ways that will lead to renewal, resilience, and well-being – even amid a pandemic or any life-altering experience. Based on positive psychology and pioneering research with…
Find out more »March 2022
The Story You Need to Tell Writing Workshop – From Surviving to Thriving!
Your story matters. This workshop will explore the power of our personal stories and personal writing. In these five sessions we will embark on finding, writing, and sharing our stories while learning writing practices that lead us to personal resilience and renewal—especially helpful now! We will hone our unique voice, learn how to release and reframe our challenging stories, and explore how to bring positive insights to our work. There will be prompts to inspire your writing as well as…
Find out more »May 2022
The Story You Need to Tell Book Club with Sandra Marinella and Jan Adrian
Enrolling Now Do you have a story? Ignite your interest in the power of your personal stories. Together we will read the book and talk about how our brains are wired with our stories, and how our stories can define, grow, and even transform us. We will explore how to share and write our stories in ways that will lead to renewal, resilience, and well-being – even amid a pandemic or any life-altering experience. Based on positive psychology and pioneering…
Find out more »The Story You Need to Tell Writing Class coming in August.
Please let me know if you have a favorite time for this session Contact Sandra@storyyoutell.com Mornings on Tuesday Evenings on Tuesday Afternoons on Wednesday Mornings on Thursday Albert’s Letter Nonprofit Story Project with The Story You Need to Tell This is a pilot class for a new nonprofit that will open soon to serve veterans, first responders, caretakers, and those faced with life-altering situations. The goal is to teach participants how to hold, frame, and write their stories in ways…
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