Wendy Brown-Baez
Writing for Healing: words to light our way
THE POWER OF STORIES TO HEAL
Writing to Wholeness: workshops to transform lives and communities
Are you interested in facilitating a writing workshop with survivors of interpersonal trauma?
The Writing to Wholeness toolkit can help. The toolkit offers instruction and ideas for what to write and read in a workshop, as well as insight into the nuance of the facilitator role.
It was developed by experienced creative writing instructors Elena Anderson Eggert
and Wendy Brown-Baez and combines years of research, study, workshop facilitation, and feedback from participants. The result is a guide that is both practical and foundational.
We provide guidance on how to focus workshops on healing expression and community change. In workshops, participants use writing to reflect on experiences that shape their lives, to share with other survivors, and to reimagine pain as a spark for social change.
We offer consultations, trainings, and workshop facilitation.
Where we’ve been…
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Men As Peacemakers “Coming Home to Ourselves” Summit, May 2023
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Saint Louis County Public Health and Human Services, June 2023
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MN Department of Health Sexual Violence Prevention Program Grantee Gathering, August 2023
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Violence Free Minnesota Annual Member Meeting, September 2023
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International Conference on Abuse, October 2023
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Mending the Sacred Hoop staff retreat, January 2024
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Witness Writers, Writers in Action Conference, March 2024
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Turningpoint For Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence, Creative Healing group, April 2024
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Witness Writing at UROC / Sept 7
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Violence Free Minnesota project: Telling the Story of Domestic Violence Advocacy in Minnesota, 2025
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One participant who completed the training hosts WTW workshops at Svalja Yoga in Duluth. Another leads WTW workshops at the Pine City Arts Center and homeless shelter.
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We have facilitated over 40 workshops. Facilitators we’ve trained have led over 60 workshops. WTW has provided a meaningful creative outlet for nearly 1,000 trauma survivors.
Where we're going:
Mn State Arts Board Grant for Art Experiences will enable us to bring Writing to Wholeness to 5 non-profits in 2026 for staff who work with people in crisis, for reflection on the value of their work, for self expression, to enhance resilience, to restore and to prevent burn out, and to share tools and ideas to use writing as a practice for self care.
Writing to Wholeness will lead intensive creative writing workshops for Minnesotans who work with people in crisis, promoting arts experiences that enhance resilience through self-reflection and community-building.
If you want to explore the connection between writing and healing with your community,
then this toolkit is for you.
now available as a free pdf on the website or you can order a print copy
