New workshop at San Antonio’s Gemini Ink will explore Narrative Therapy

We all have some fictional story of ourselves we like to imagine. Perhaps we are a concert pianist, or a crusading lawyer or a survivalist living off the land.

These idle daydreams are a nice way to pass the time, say when stuck in traffic or some other unavoidable boredom daily life is full of. But what if such exercises were actually deeply relevant to self-actualization and fulfillment?

This Saturday at Gemini Ink, poet Aaron Deutsch and licensed professional counselor Heather Joy Pitamber will explore the practice of Narrative Therapy, a technique of “rewriting” personal stories to build towards a desired future.

Participants in the workshop “The Mythology of Me: Applying Poetry and Narrative Therapy to Personal Stories” will learn the technique and have the opportunity to apply it to their own lives — writing the futures they deserve.

$145 (nonmembers), $125 (members) and $75 (students), 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, Gemini Ink, 1111 Navarro St., (210) 734-9673, geminiink.org/events/the-mythology-of-me.

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This article appears in Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2024.