Find Your Creative Voice: A writing workshop with Wen Gibson
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Our imagination, our daydreams, the stories we tell ourselves, point to our creative self and our inner knowing.If only we could catch them.
Writing and finding our words is one way to honour and connect with that part within us; our creativity. It longs to be expressed. The demands on our time, in our busy lives, usually means that this part of us is often ignored. Or put at the end of that ‘to do’ list.
The first step is to recognise this need within you: the pining for something more, something magical, something uniquely you.
Making room to hear your own voice is central to feeling fully alive. It is the door through which we can unlock our hidden self within. We need to give ourselves a space in order to capture those words, those stories waiting to be told.
The second step is in giving yourself the permission to take this time for you.
In this workshop ‘Find Your Creative Voice’, I aim to meet you where you are, giving you permission to experiment and be curious. There is no right or wrong way of doing this: there is only discovering your way.
This will be a space to catch those words that have been circling within you. The story you’ve never dared tell, the longings you haven’t allowed yourself to listen to. Well, now you can. To learn to trust yourself and your dreams. To capture them. To make them yours.
Outline:
•Motivation, expectations and excuses
•How to start
•Carving out a writing space
•Hindrances and obstacles
•The inner critic and reclaiming our playful self
•Little steps: what works best for you
•A commitment to yourself
Wen Gibson travelled the world on a bicycle, settled in Scotland, then returned to the Central Coast to confront her past. Her powerful and empowering memoir, Stammering Against Truth: Surviving the Unspeakable, was published in October 2024. Her short stories have been published by the Central Coast Writers Festival, the Pearl Prize (part of the Queer Midsumma Festival), Seniors’ Stories Volume 10, and the Wattle Tree Press Anthology. Visit Wen’s website at wengibson.com
Wen is committed to helping people find their voices and their words. She uses her experience of over thirty years of counselling to help people unblock their own creativity. In her coming workshops, she hopes to create a safe, nurturing environment where people can discover their unique stories and the hidden dimensions within themselves.
Reviews: “What an authentic and well-written account of surviving and growing through the many challenges that are part of extreme trauma... Truth tellers, such as Wen, are courageous and enormously important members of society.” Dr Warwick Middleton- Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
Date
Sunday 19 July 2026 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (UTC+10)Location
Umina Beach Book Nook
294 West Street, Umina Beach NSW 2257
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Find Your Creative Voice: A writing workshop with Wen Gibson
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