Elana GoldenLevantine Cultural Center in association with The Writing Studio invites you to a FREE writing workshop with Elana Golden entitled "From Trauma to New Beginnings."

When:
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 1 to 6 pm

Where:
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W Pico Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90035

What:
This writing workshop is suitable for both new and experienced writers. It is limited to 10 participants.

In the safety of the writing group, we take one moment from our lives and enter it fully. We slow down and look at it through the lens of the writer, allowing the story to emerge from the silence within. We learn to follow rather than lead the story, and our writing is fresh, free, original, unexpected.

In this workshop, participants will examine traumatic moments in their lives or those of their families and communities, and turn them into stories of descent and restoration.  The skills of creative writing will be taught and explored along with methods to gently put aside the critical mind.  It will be a time of creative expansion, cathartic writing and deep healing.

"The workshop provided me with a tool belt for creative writing as well as a sacred, encouraging space in which to transform a tragic personal experience into a piece of art.  I highly recommend Elana's workshop."


"Elana is an amazing writing instructor.  Soon after I took one of her seminars, I wrote my novel in just three months.  She works less with your mind and more with your heart and soul ,causing your writing to pour out like a tidal wave.  She will create sessions tailored to your writing needs.  I highly recommend."


"Elana creates a wonderful environment infused with a sense of spirit and artistic charm in which writing comes easily and naturally.  The story writing I did in her classes surprised even myself."


For information and registration please call Elana Golden at: 323.936.2601 or email elanaji@earthlink.net -- www.thewritingstudio.biz  — or Levantine Cultural Center at: 310. 657.5511.

Please bring a notebook and pen.

Elana Golden, MA, writer, director, educator, founded the Writing Studio™ in 2000 and has taught since then over 2500 classes and workshops to new and experienced writers from many cultures.  A student of eastern philosophy and meditation, peace and human-rights activist, Elana creates workshops that nurture the soul and are an exceptional educational experience in the art of creative writing.  Elana holds a BFA in film from New York University and an MA in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica.