Celebrating Life’s Beautiful Detours through Writing Your Own Story

Join us with author, TEDx speaker, award-winning actress, and mixed media artist Amy Oestreicher for a “My Beautiful Detour” Creativity, Hope & Resilience Discussion. What are the "four strategies to resilience" and how can we use them right now during difficult times? Join Amy for interactive exercises, tools, and stories to help us cope with "social distancing," keeping our bodies, minds and spirits healthy, and celebrating life's everyday miracles.

In this session, you'll learn how writing is a "Detourist" tool which can help guide your own journey, and the exercises of resiliency that will gather your thoughts into the story you need to tell.

Learn more at: Https://www.amyoes.com/mbd about Amy’s CT-Press Club Award-winning memoir, "My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful."

Can your story make a difference?  Storytelling, since the beginning of time, has driven change, created movements, and launched careers. We all have the ability to become bold, powerful leaders through our stories, connecting to others on a deeply personal, universal level. Our stories motivate ourselves as well as our community to adapt to the workforce, take entrepreneurial risks and assume leadership roles with self-assurance.

Learn how an authentic story can spark thought-provoking questions that inspire others to think creatively, be more engaged and take action not only in your personal and professional life, but as an active agent of change in society. 

By utilizing classic storytelling techniques, you’ll work to reframe your personal narrative, effortlessly creating compelling meaning that motivates those around you, and connects your competencies to your confidence.

Writing from your deepest source, gain insight and self-understanding that can bring peace and healing. You will then make your words leap from the page, sharing them orally to uncover the power of story to transform your life and your listeners. Through Amy’s four skills to resilience that helped her through her own life-altering detours, you will find your authentic voice, along with an honest, organic way to express your truth. This is a workshop for those seeking to explore personal essay, memoir, solo performance, or the practice of journaling.

Topics include:

• Writing exercises to stimulate creativity and storytelling based on a “detour” in life

• Learning to structure the narrative in a compelling way

• Discovering ways to create spontaneously

• Utilizing tools to release yourself from the inner critic

• Transforming your ideas/stories into marketable creative writing with a universal yet unique appeal