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A Day of Belonging: Workshop Descriptions for September 13th, 2025
For the complete Schedule of Events for Day of Belonging, click here. Click here for a downloadable map of Rockwood Manor Poetry Circle with Laura Van Prooyen LOCATION: Brooke Hall SCHEDULED TIME: 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM Step into a welcoming space where poetry comes...
A Day of Belonging: Schedule of Events for September 13th, 2025
Downloadable Materials: Program Manor Map 9 AM TO 9:50 AM Registration (in Lobby) Breakfast - All Attendees Gather in Great Falls 10 AM TO 11 AM Welcome: Featuring Keynote Speaker, CAPT Adam Saperstein & Musical Performance by Wytold - All Attendees Gather...
Memoir Writing: What’s the Story? — A workshop with author Kathryn Roche
Join author of Well, I Didn't See That Coming: My Journey from the CIA to Life with Post-Concussion Syndrome, Kathryn Roche for Memoir Writing: What's the Story? on Thursday, August 7th at 7 PM EST. Kathryn Roche, whose memoir was published in May, will discuss the...
Gaining Perspective Through Writing: A Conversation and Two Poems, with Veteran Caregiver Margie Hults
Margie Hults is a writer with dedication. I met her in an online workshop that I facilitate with Mission Belonging twice a month, called Military Voices, and she’s attended almost every session over the past year. In each workshop, I give a prompt, which participants...
Writing into the Self Through the Chakras with Raychelle Heath – A Mission Belonging Pop-Up Workshop
Writing into the Self Through the Chakras is a creative writing workshop merging chakra meditation and writing as a way to tap into the deeper parts of the self in order to bring their voices to the page. The workshop will explore the seven chakras through colors and...
Art Saves Lives: “The Colors of a Resilient Warrior: How Art Saved My Life” by Amanda Barkster
“Writing became my palette, my lifeline, when the weight of my story became too heavy to carry alone.” I used to think resilience was invisible—a quiet, colorless force that held me together when everything else was falling apart. But I’ve come to realize that...
The Healing Power of Facilitation: A Workshop for Facilitators with author/educator Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Join author and poet, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, for a fundraising workshop benefiting Mission Belonging. Facilitating arts-based workshops, can help us transform flurries of freak-outs, bouts of despair, and stretches of hopeless into a more generous, expansive, and...
Where Does Your Grief Sit? — An Online Creative Writing Workshop with Maya Williams in Partnership with Strathmore
Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and storytellers—these generative community workshops follow the...
It’s Official: Community Building Art Works Is Now Mission Belonging
Dearest Community, You've probably noticed us making the transition, but I'm really excited to share some big news: Community Building Art Works is officially Mission Belonging. Over the years, we’ve grown from a grassroots initiative into a nationally recognized...
Attention & Transformation: A Summer Solstice Writing Workshop with Hari Alluri in Partnership with Strathmore
Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and storytellers—these generative community workshops follow the...
The Writer’s Next Step: From Creation to Submission with Jessica Berg
A virtual workshop for all those who have served in the military, their families, and caregivers, on how to get work published with literary agent, Jessica Berg. On Thursday, June 12th at 7pm EST, join author and literary agent Jessica Berg for The Writer’s Next Step:...
Art Saves Lives: “the only place i feel safe enough to question god” by Rick Writes
What device do you use to keep your vice in a vice? Creativity forges the keys to release us from these shackles. This instrument can also break locks. Every time I try and break free, I try & find moments to capture, the goal is to paint a polaroid of time. A...
