PARTNER WITH LIVING HYPHEN
Over the last few years, we’ve had the honour of working with various partners to deliver our storytelling workshops to different communities across the country. We’ve worked with 50 organizations, including school boards, arts and culture organizations, community groups, non-profits, and corporate businesses to develop programming that encourages courageous and tender storytelling around the themes of home, identity, and belonging. We have worked with nearly 1800 emerging storytellers across the country to spark their creativity, explore their hyphenated identities, and cultivate a thoughtful practice of sharing and listening to each other’s stories.
If you are interested in bringing our writing workshops to your community, we would love to find a way to work with you. We believe that our stories carry the power to heal ourselves, our relationships, and the world. Begin exploring how we might be able to work together by choosing a path below.
OUR APPROACH
At Living Hyphen, we take a decolonial, intersectional, and anti-oppressive approach to all of our workshops. We let go of perfection and embrace our messy pages. We focus on the nourishing and healing process of writing instead of the product. And we embrace writing as an embodied practice that brings together mind and body for a healing and joyful journey.
Our Partners
We’ve been very fortunate to work with a number of different community-based organizations and institutions to deliver our writing workshops across Turtle Island.
TESTIMONIALS
Listen to what our partners have had to say about our work together.
“I wasn’t fully sure what to expect with the Living in Between Cultures Writing and Storytelling Workshop Series. I met with Justine virtually to discuss the program and share my vision and hopes for engaging in this type of program and now that the program is over, I have left feeling completely blown away by the magic that happened in Living Hyphen’s workshop space.
Justine is an incredible facilitator – she has a knack for making her audience feel welcomed and like they belong. Justine had stressed multiple times that to participate in this program you do not need to be a professional storyteller or a writer, and I had my doubts. However, this couldn’t be more true. The prompts and guides that Justine provides are simple yet brought out very deep and emotional conversations and stories from our university students. Everyone has a talent to write and share their stories and Justine makes this possible.
Thank you Living Hyphen for leading us through this beautiful, rich, intercultural, and thought provoking space that prioritized culture and identity as the main themes. Can’t wait to work with you again in the future!”
“At Atlas Obscura, we have been so lucky to collaborate with Justine and Living Hyphen to offer Living Between Cultures, a four-part writing and storytelling workshop for BIPOC. We’re honored to have a hand in making this programming available to our audience, and working with Justine and Living Hyphen has been a dream. Justine is an excellent collaborator and community-builder, a brilliant course designer, a clear and thoughtful communicator, and a generous instructor. Her courses mean so much to her students, and she crafts experiences and holds spaces that students can grow and thrive within. I hope to continue to work with Justine and Living Hyphen for a long time to come.”
“We are so grateful to Living Hyphen for hosting a writing workshop for our newcomer and multilingual learners. Right from the start, the students felt heard, seen and valued in their experiences through the way in which Living Hyphen scaffolded the creative writing process. As a group, we learned through the sharing of our stories how we are more connected to each other than we once thought while also gaining a deeper understanding for the experiences others have been through to get to this moment. I cannot recommend Living Hyphen and their work enough; we will be having them back next school year!”