Trauma-Informed Creative Writing Class

On October 10th, I’ll be facilitating a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing lecture + workshop at the Ottawa School of Art (in-person & online). To purchase tickets to join virtually via Zoom, visit my website: www.eros-creative.org/writingthroughthebody

Trauma-Informed Creative Writing is a process that integrates the body (soma) with writing. It can involve using a combination of mindfulness practices, music, community, breakthwork, movement, and bodily awareness as inspiration and guidance for creative writing.

​This class helps individuals explore what they are capable of writing / creating when they experience a felt-sense of safety, connection, and pleasure within the body.

Trauma-Informed Creative Writing helps participants gain the space needed to untangle trauma-based beliefs and shape new realities for themselves and their communities through writing.

This process helps us tap into our unconscious beliefs and desires, along with showing us possibilities for healing, compassion and liberation that we may not have been aware of before.

What you can expect:

• Connect with community members who are also interested in the intersections of mental health, healing and creative expression.

• Educational material about how trauma responses (fight-flight-freeze-fawn-dissociate) impact freedom of creative expression.

• Somatic (body-based) tools & resources for supporting creative expression by helping the body access states of inner nourishment, pleasure and connection (i.e window of connection / ventral vagal states)

• Deepen self-compassion and joy as core elements of the creative process.

FACILITATOR: Shalyn Isaacs, M.Ed, Counselling Psychology

Shalyn Isaacs is a Writer-Poet and the Founder-Director of Eros-Creative, a mental health workshop consulting company based out of Ottawa, Canada. For the past 8 years she has been developing and facilitating workshops for academic, corporate and non-profit organizations on how trauma and the social systems we live in impact our mental health, mind-body connection and creative expression. She is a Certified Trauma of Money Facilitator and earned a Masters in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto.

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She specialized in offering psychotherapy to women-of-color & 2SLGBTQIA+ survivors of sexual violence. She closed her psychotherapy private practice in 2023 to focus on her career path teaching classes and workshops on the intersections of trauma healing and creative expression.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ottawa School of Art, 35 George Street, Ottawa, Canada