Write the Way: A Healing-Centered Model for Moving Toward Liberatory and Transformative Experience

Abstract

Writing can be a source of affirmation, empowerment, liberation, healing, and joy, as well as a source of dread, oppression, and identity-based harm, particularly for people who have been marginalized or minoritized. This paper presents Write the Way as a theoretical model for writing and pedagogy, intended to help writers and teachers of writing cultivate healing-centered relationships with writing, with others, and with ourselves as we move together in the direction of a healing world.

Author

• Ioanna Pettas Opidee, Lesley University