Programs

Community Writing Groups 

We believe in the healing power of storytelling. We offer prompt writing workshops at no cost for selected community groups and nonprofits.

There is something organizing and healing about getting your story on the page, to hearing others tell their stories and when you’re ready, to share your story.

These companionable writing groups are an opportunity for deep listening to self and others. They take aim at loneliness and encourage connection through the most ancient practice of coming together and sharing stories and knowing you are not alone.

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Upcoming Meet-ups

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Culver City Wildfire Survivor Community Writing Group
Feb 7
Culver City Wildfire Survivor Community Writing Group
Studio City Seniors Community Writing Group
Feb 9
Studio City Seniors Community Writing Group
Intergenerational Writing Group
Feb 11
Intergenerational Writing Group
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nonprofit engagement

We partner with nonprofits to offer free prompt-driven community writing groups that help beneficiaries unearth, hone and share their stories. No matter what populations your nonprofit serves, we believe that coming together to share stories is a powerful way to build community, heal and be seen.

Mothers Raising
Neurodiverse Kids

Former Foster Youth

Partnerships

Women in Recovery

WRITING GROUP LEADERs

Kathy Katims

In March 2020, seeing an urgent need for connection, Kathy offered her first prompt driven writing workshop. Since then she has offered over 100 workshops and they are still going strong. People have described the workshops as “life changing” “church” “a storytelling laboratory” “yoga for writing” and most importantly “safe.”  

Danny Stone

Danny Stone is a teaching artist who has acted on stages from Broadway to London to the Steppenwolf theatre of Chicago to the Mark Taper Forum of Lis Angeles. He has also done 10 films and 20 tv shows. As a teacher he has worked in the graduate film department of Columbia University and UCLA and has run arts intensives at Rikers Island and Ossining State Prison in NYC and the Senior Writing Group at the Studio City Library for Saved By A Story.

Jessie Rosen

Jessie Rosen is the USA Today best-selling author of THE HEIRLOOM and ALL THE SIGNS. She got her start with the award-winning blog 20-Nothings and has sold original TV projects to ABC, CBS, Warner Bros., and Netflix. She lives physically in LA but mentally in New York where she writes about brave characters building road maps for us all.

  • "Love the prompts which allow most of us to dive into the past. It is almost therapeutic. The trust and honesty in these groups makes me feel safe to share."

    S.A.

  • "Somehow, when we’re together and a writing prompt is offered, the writing just flows. I think this is true for the entire group. And sharing what we’ve written is a pleasure because it is such a safe space. The whole experience has been a gift."

    S.T.

  • "I feel wonderful when each class is over. I have the sense that I have allowed my brain to discover, create and relax. Kathy's prompts trigger me to think, and encourage me to let go and pursue my thoughts without limiting the flow. Kathy establishes a safe environment where the effort to write is supported. Motivation is natural. I like the concept of exercising neuroplasticity and I feel the class has encouraged me to loosen up and take a creative journey. The class has helped me to trust that I can write and enjoy the journey."

    J.W.

  • "Under Kathleen’s warm and excellent leadership, I find everyone to be incredibly open, generous, empathetic, engaged. I come every chance I get."

    -A.W.

  • Thank you for imagining and creating this group. Our members get closer and closer with each meeting. People who didn't even want to read in the beginning are now sharing very personal stories, which tells me they now feel safe enough to share things that hurt them or move them or excite them. It's a joy to watch this transformation.

    M.E.T.