Creative Writing Toolkit: Making Friends with Fear

**REGISTER ONLINE FOR WORKSHOP HERE ON EVENTBRITE OR REGISTER BY CONTACTING NSILC**

edp@nsilc.com

(306) 665-5508

This workshop series offers a chance to experiment and remember how to play. Using fun and accessible artistic tools, you will have the opportunity to make friends with your thoughts and feelings. These workshops are an opportunity to practice mindfulness in a supported environment, identify habits and emotional loops, and develop a personalized toolkit for self-care.

The tools presented in these workshops can be used to improve concentration, experience mirroring, reduce overwhelm and practice self-soothing. These activities are important thriving mechanisms for people who experience AD(H)D, anxiety, and depression.

These tools come from techniques in the visual arts and poetry but are explored in ways that focus on experiencing resilience, identifying core values, and experiencing self-reliance. They are used to build the foundation for a creative practice and can be used by artists in any discipline.

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Presented by a local Saskatoon Artist, made possible by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Government of Saskatchewan. Rebecca La Marre is a queer Canadian artist with a writing, research, and performance practice. Her work is exhibited and published internationally and has taken her to over 20 countries. She was recently diagnosed with Adult ADHD, anxiety, and depression. Through the diagnosis she discovered that many of the strategies she uses in her art practice also double as effective ways to cope with challenging aspects of her neurodiversity.

She holds a Masters in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been the recipient of funding from The British Arts Council, The Québec Council for the Arts and the Federal Government of Canada. This workshop series is funded by SK Arts: Artists in Communities.