Speaking

Writing for Resilience – Dr. Vicki Atkinson and Wynne Leon

Learn how unlocking your storyteller’s soul can build resilience and reinvigorate your writing practice. Personal narratives are proven pathways for both interpersonal and intrapersonal growth. Authors Atkinson and Leon share their top ten tried-and-true techniques for pushing past life’s obstacles to lay a foundation for self-understanding. Includes handouts, resources, and Q & A.

Background and Bios

Dr. Vicki Atkinson and Wynne Leon are women on storytelling missions.  Professionals outside of their writing careers, Vicki and Wynne believe in the power of writing for resilience and the potential that exists when we our explore our creative hearts as we strive to live intentionally – with love and joy abundant – despite the challenges that life presents.

Authors Of:

“Surviving Sue” by Dr. Vicki Atkinson:  Growing up with a mom who struggled with anxiety, depression, alcoholism and Munchausen’s by Proxy, Vicki needed to uncover the secrets her mom, Sue, kept, in order to empty them of their potency and harm.  Doing this work helped Vicki flip her life script from fear to understanding – and ultimately, to love.  Vicki wrote about her life with Sue in order to create healing for herself and for her adult daughter.  Intergenerational healing is possible and Vicki’s a champion of it.

“Finding My Father’s Faith” by Wynne Leon:  In the wake of her dad’s sudden death in a bike accident, Wynne writes to uncover all the goodness she learned from him.  Because she listened to the small, insistent whisper that she talk with him about spirituality – urgently – before he unexpectedly passed away, Wynne found she had a treasure trove of material to support her call to write.  Applying all she learned to her own life and her growing family, Wynne gives powerful testimony to the potency of writing as soulwork.

Contact Us:

Please email us at sharingtheheartofthematter@gmail.com to inquire about our speaking schedule and fees. Please see our listings through the Chicago Writer’s Association Speaker’s Bureau.

Check out Wynne and Vicki’s Cultivating Resilience Through Creativity workshop offered through Revel Eleven and available on YouTube. Link