Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 4-hour workshop hosted over Zoom, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process and use tools adapted from clinical practice to begin safely generating your own work.

The creative writing classroom is not an explicitly healing space—yet writers regularly bring their stories of trauma into workshops. In this 4-hour intensive, learn when writing heals and harms, discuss best practices, and assess your own self-regulation skills.

Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 4-hour workshop hosted over Zoom, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process and use tools adapted from clinical practice to begin safely generating your own work.

Our most powerful stories can be the most brutal to write, leaving us frustrated, emotionally activated, and stuck. What gets in the way? How can we push forward without damaging our mental and physical health? In this 4-hour workshop hosted in-person by Paonia Books in Paonia, Colorado, we'll build a toolbox for unlocking urgent stories that have so far resisted telling.

Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 2-hour workshop hosted by the Deschutes Public Library, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process.

At this panel at #AWP22 in Philadelphia and online, nonfiction writers Aggie Stewart, Grace Talusan, Katherine Standefer, and Alden Jones offer strategies for pacing emotionally-charged material in trauma memoirs.

Our beating hearts are easy to take for granted until they no longer work. Join authors Katherine Standefer and Florence Williams at Tucson Festival of Books as they share their journeys into healthcare and science to heal their broken hearts.

Our beating hearts are easy to take for granted until they no longer work. Join authors Katherine Standefer and Florence Williams at Tucson Festival of Books as they share their journeys into healthcare and science to heal their broken hearts.

In this 3-hour virtual memoir seminar hosted by Literary Arts and the Portland Book Festival, students will explore how the contradictions in their personalities—the gaps between dirty laundry and grace—are the most interesting space, and how careful and brave craft choices allow us to write into our most gorgeous, complex selves.

Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 3-hour workshop with author and trauma specialist Katherine Standefer, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process. Together, we’ll discuss some of the embodied blocks writers experience, touch into the craft problems common to this material, and explore tools for moving forward at the right time and with the right pace.

Join Kati at the Utah Humanities Book Festival and the University of Utah School of Medicine’s Center for Health Ethics, Art, and Humanities for a lively discussion as part of the Evening Ethics speaker series. We'll explore how Standefer's complex experience as a "cyborg" and supply chain research map onto the Four Pillars of Medical Ethics, wrestling with questions about harm, justice, and autonomy on both the individual and communal level.

After a long, disorienting night, we blink into the light of a new day. In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll continue our journey through the Third Line of the tarot with The Sun card, asking ourselves: After destruction, deep tending, and shadow work, how have we transformed? Together, we’ll write into the celebrations, joys and successes of The Sun card, as well as the tentativeness we often feel when moving back into illumination. The Sun card announces: The light has returned.

In this 3-hour virtual memoir seminar hosted by Hugo House, students will explore how the contradictions in their personalities—the gaps between dirty laundry and grace—are the most interesting space, and how careful and brave craft choices allow us to write into our most gorgeous, complex selves.

Learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process. Discuss some of the embodied blocks writers experience, touch into the craft problems common to traumatic material, and explore tools for moving forward at the right time and with the right pace.

At night, shapes lengthen and shadows grow. We can’t quite be sure of what we’re seeing. In this 2-hour writing workshop, we’ll continue our journey through the Third Line of the tarot, moving from the gentle self-tending of the Star card into the void energy of The Moon, noticing the dreams, visions, delusions, spells, madnesses and shadow work beckoning us. Moon energy is rarely comfortable, but it offers an essential invitation into spiritual mystery. The Moon card reminds us: There is a way to see in the dark.

Following the fires of the Tower card, the Star brings rain and rest. In this 2-hour writing workshop hosted by the Ninth House Shop, we’ll write into the raw moments after crisis, touch into our experiences of gentleness, identify what needs grieving, and step into a faith that can lead us forward. The Star card wants us to know: There is a way to come home to ourselves.

All of us live within structures—our days shaped by jobs, families, ideologies and laws. With its images of lightning, fire, and bodies falling from the sky, the Tower card makes clear: What has long stood is coming down. In this 2-hour writing workshop hosted by The Ninth House Shop, write into your relationship with destruction, revolution, and disaster, and touch into the Tower-season clarity, clearings, and awakenings that can point you toward what is next. The Tower card wants us to know: Starting over can be the truest gift.