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Guided Storytelling Workshop

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EVENT DETAILS:


Dates: Sunday March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2026

Time: 10 am - 12 pm (for all workshops)

Location of March 8 and 29: Cross and Crows Books, 2836 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4C6

Location of March 15 and 22: Zoom, link to follow


*Note, this is a hybrid event, with the first and last workshops in person at Cross and Crows (so we can open and close the space together), and the second and third workshops over Zoom (so we can meet in our PJs).


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WHO THIS IS FOR

This is for you who writes in secret- in your journal, in your head, on the bus. 

You who doesn't consider yourself a 'writer' yet you've written since you can remember.

This is for you who is a writer but your writing practice is being slowly suffocated with brambles whose thorns pierce you with criticism.

This is for you who wants to tell a story of your own-
  • but you're not sure where to start
  • but what if it's not good or boring or terrible
  • but what if you offend people, or hurt the people you love
So many buts, it's like an episode of Heated Rivalry in your brain.

And yet, the call to tell your story remains.

This four-week workshop is a sacred container. For you to meet yourself. See yourself. Empower yourself. Through exploring your story.

Whether you want to to write just for you, whether you dream of writing to share with others, whether you dream of sharing your story onstage someday, this first exploration is your very own. A time to reach out and touch your story, feel its contours. To witness yourself telling one part of your fuller story- from beginning to end. 

A DECOLONIZED CONTAINER

This space is especially for you who is different. Usually on the fringes. Who doesn't thrive in traditional learning environments, with people telling you what to do, fit you into their mold. 

This space is an invitation. To be in a playground of possibility, not a lecture hall. 

Above all, this is decolonized storytelling. You don't need a degree or a certificate to write. Your story is already within you, we are simply excavating it. Polishing it. Giving it room to breathe.


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WORKSHOP STRUCTURE 


Week 1: Finding a thread of your story
Week 2: Building emotional safety by exploring inner voices and getting rooted in your intention for writing
Week 3: Developing your story: what stays, what goes, adding depth and meaning
Week 4: Sharing your story aloud to close the loop, to see yourself, to celebrate yourself 

Note: If you're uncomfortable sharing aloud, no worries. You can listen and receive story medicine instead.


BRAIDED APPROACH 


I am a writing teacher, a writing coach, and a healer. 

This workshop, thus, operates on three levels:

1. Craft: You'll learn writing tools and techniques. How to find one strand of your full life story and develop it. So it's complete (or complete enough) and compelling.

2. Inner voices: We soften the inner voices (the 'but' voices mentioned above): of self-doubt, fear of judgement, perfection, all the mind gunk. This inner work allows you to release the constriction and access your truth, your voice, your power.

3. Healing: Honing in on your truth through the writing process is where the healing lies. Where the power of your story lies. This is the transformative power of storytelling.


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SOME THINGS TO NOTE:

  • This workshop is for personal storytelling, that is, stories from your life. If you write poetry, fiction, or other genres, many parts of this workshop will translate over, and in this workshop, we're working with your personal experiences.
  • For the emotional safety of you and the other participants, you'll be asked to choose a topic that is 'healed enough' in your life, and not in active trauma. 
  • This space is suitable for folks who don't consider themselves writers, who have no prior experience. And it is suitable for folks who do consider themselves writers but feel blocked or out of touch with your practice.

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Fees for 4 Sessions:

The fees are sliding scale. If you've never used sliding scale, please read carefully.

Sliding scale is a method of payment whereby folks who have financial resources pay the higher tiers so that folks needing support can pay the lower tier. This is community care for the collective. 

Please choose the tier that best represents your means.

Tier 1: $ 200

Tier 2: $175

Tier 3: $150


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If you have any questions, please email the facilitator at phiroozeh@gmail.com.


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About the Facilitator:

Phi Petigara is a queer brown writer, healer and coach for writers who procrastinate. She believes that writing and healing are intrinsically connected. Phi writes about the hard stuff: chronic illness and queerness and different-ness as experienced in brown immigrant bodies.

As a writing coach, Phi helps writers who procrastinate to get to the root of their procrastination so they can write with consistency and confidence. She helps folks find their voice and their truth through their writing so they can create art as liberation, for themselves and the collective.

Phi has been published in “Good Girls Marry Doctors” and other anthologies. She is the author of the zines, “Queer Brown Love Story” and “After Happily Ever After”.

IG: @decolonizingaunty

Website: phiroozeh.com

Substack: "Brown Story Medicine"





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What is one of the "buts" that stops you writing? What does your brain say right when you're about to write or when you're mid-story that stops you or sends you into self-doubt?

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