Workshops & 1:1 Coaching
I facilitate a variety of writing for healing and social change workshops online and in person. Workshops listed below can be individual or done in a sequence depending on your goals. I’m happy to develop a workshop tailored to your needs, just ask!
I offer 1:1 coaching for adoptees (adults & teens) and adoptive families on request using the methodology developed in my book Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal. My process is emergent and tailored to the needs of each individual. Coaching programs are at least a 6 week commitment with options for longer-term work and include:
Weekly Zoom call 75-90 minutes
Email and text support
Personalized writing coaching to help understand and process embodied trauma
Personalized weekly workbook pages and a full personalized workbook at the end of our sessions
As your coach my job is to be a mirror, to reflect back what I hear in each session and offer support and guidance using the tools I’ve developed over more than 20 years of personal and professional experiences as a writer, educator, actor, coach, and facilitator. My goal is to guide you through a process of self-discovery using your writing to illuminate the journey.
"I was in the agonizing throes of coming out of the fog when I ran across a writing workshop of Liz DeBetta. I had never written anything before, but I was desperate for community, sharing, and understanding. Her guidance and wisdom of writing to heal was the catalyst for me to examine the charred pieces of my origin story and rewrite the narrative." - Akara S.
"Liz creates a sacred space for adoptees to come together to write from the body where the hurt lives and in doing so discover the beauty that lies hidden within us." - Bruce P.
Current Workshops
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1-Day Writing to Heal
These 1-day introductory workshops are your chance to explore the healing power of writing in a supportive community of fellow adoptees. In each interactive workshop with guided writing exercises you'll have the opportunity to express your unique journey and find solace in shared experiences.
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3-Day Mini-retreat
Join me for a restorative online experience designed specifically for adoptees. This 3-day mini-retreat is your chance to explore the healing power of writing in a supportive community of fellow adoptees.
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6-Week Workshop
This 6-week session is your chance to explore the healing power of writing in a sustained and supportive community of fellow adoptees. This interactive workshop is modeled after the Migrating Toward Wholeness experience I piloted with the Rudd Adoption Research Program .
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-Expressing the Primal Wound: Poetry as Healing
-Expressing the Primal Wound: Navigating Fear, Grief, and Ambiguous Loss
-Migrating Toward Wholeness: Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal
-Rewriting the Truth: Making Room for Adoptee Narratives
-Coming Out of the Fog and Grieving the Ghosts: A Workshop on Writing to Heal -
-Power, Privilege and Oppression: Using Reflective Writing as Tool for
Learning/Unlearning
-Bridging Differences: Storytelling for Empathy and Social Justice
-Untellable Stories: Stories as Activism
-Women, Connectedness, and Self Care
-Social Injustice and Poetic Possibility: The Power of Spoken Word
-Stories of Silence, Stories of Strength: A Workshop on Reclamation of Self as An Act of Resistance -
-Subversive Stories: Writing the Self
-Refusing Silence: Words as Witness
-Finding Voice by Storying the Self: An introspective, reflective writing journey for creative artists and curious souls
-Poetry and Performance: Healing through Self-expression
Women’s Narratives: Intentional Writing Circles (series of 3):
-Storying the Self: Creative Writing Workshop
-Invoking Ancestors: Situating the Self
-Subversive Selves: Bearing Witness