Writing Through Trauma

Learn tools and techniques for using a journal to tap into your innate abilities to help yourself heal and restore wellness, and to begin to believe that you are not the problem, the problem is the problem. This class is not intended to replace any healing work you’re doing, whether you’re receiving talk therapy, bodywork, yoga, painting, running, cooking, making music, or any other healing methods you are engaged in. Instead, it is intended to encourage you to use your journal as a way of enhancing other forms of healing. Leave the workshop feeling affirmed and empowered. Led by Carolyn Holbrook. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Carolyn Holbrook’s memoir, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in memoir/creative nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (UMN Press) and is co-author with Dr. Josie Johnson and Arleta Little of Hope in the Struggle (UMN Press). Her essays have been published in anthologies including A Good Time For the Truthand Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Her 2022 TEDx talk, The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave, was presented at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist.