Self-Compassion and Personal Narrative Workshop:
Write Your Life With Greater Compassion

Lara Naughton is a New Orleans-based documentary playwright, memoirist, and writing instructor. She is a certified Compassion Cultivation Trainer through the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, and Chair of Creative Writing at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. This workshop combines writing facilitation with compassion cultivation training in order to help you explore the stories of your life. In a relaxed and supportive environment, you will participate in exercises designed to increase your capacity for mindfulness and self-compassion, and you will have time to generate new writing.
"Humans have a natural capacity for compassion. At the same time, life experiences and work/social pressures can get in the way of fully expressing compassion. Cultivating compassion involves training your mind to think and respond in new ways, developing specific skills for relating to others and yourself, and intentionally choosing compassionate thoughts and actions."