Memoir Writing Workshops
Life Story & Memoir Writing Workshops in Wheaton, Naperville, and the Chicago suburbs
LivingStories.us empowers writers and non-writers alike through its workshops and seminars. To schedule your Chicago area memoir writing workshop or seminar, please contact us at 630-480-0648.
- In Joyful Journaling, participants learn how to make lessons in the moment available to others such as children and grandchildren through careful, colorful written descriptions and reflections.
- In Marvelous Memoirs, participants capture their lives' most important junctures in historical narrative that explores the places, circumstances and feelings that made them life-changing.
- In Five Steps to Writing a Life Story, writers and non-writers learn a structured, comprehensive method for considering what makes their lives unique and methods for sharing the elements of experience that will inspire others.
We schedule both one-time or multi-session programs tailored to the objectives of both large and small audiences. We provide 30 to 90 minute mini-workshops, 4 to 6 session workshops, and customized sessions and classes designed for your specific audience. Our memoir writing workshop classes are available for these types of groups:
- Senior groups
- Retirement centers
- Church groups
- Libraries
- Park districts
- Civic organizations
- Colleges
- Various types of clubs
Participants derive both practical knowledge and encouragement from LivingStories classes as they prepare to write their own memoirs or to interview loved ones with the same purpose in mind.