New Workshops

Beyond Intermission: Thriving in Your Third Act

Facilitator: Amy J. Barry

Dates: Tuesdays, 11/12/2024 to 12/10/2024
Location: Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, Stony Creek, CT
Meeting Time: 2 to 4 p.m.

Description: As each generation lives longer, more active lives— people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond, still working or retired, married, divorced, single or widowed, are finding themselves asking the same question: How will I spend the next 20, 30 or even 40 years?
In this workshop Amy will implement creative visualizations, hands-on expressive art and writing exercises, current research findings, and group discussion and feedback to help participants get “unstuck” and move beyond “intermission” into a rich and rewarding “third act.”
Amy is a certified express arts facilitator, published author & poet, award-winning journalist, and Hospice-trained bereavement counselor.
More about Amy at www.aimwrite-ct.net

There is no charge for the program, but registration is required
(limited to 10 people)—along with a commitment to attend all 5 sessions—by calling the library at 203-488-8702

"As a lifelong writer, I’ve always valued honest feedback. In Amy’s writing groups, I benefit from her highly attuned listening skills. She asks great questions and clarifies, always with a focus on the text. The in-class writing exercises, using prompts, are great for overcoming blank page syndrome. Adrenaline over procrastination! Over several classes, I’ve benefited by exercising my writing ‘muscles’ with Amy’s trained ear and thoughtful and precise comments. Additionally, members of her workshops are also writers with various talented voices, and that has made it a comfortable and worthwhile learning experience for me each time I take this journey.
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-- Joanna Baymiller