Writing Trauma Without Traumatising Yourself - Part 2
This event is free for members, $20.00 for non members - a Zoom link will be sent a day or two before the event
This event has a number limit, so ordering a ticket (free for members) is essential.
Writing Trauma Without Traumatising Yourself Part 2 is the continuation of workshop Part 1 where writer and psychiatrist Sumitra Singam explained how to write trauma safely while staying regulated. This workshop is suitable for memoir writers, fiction writers, poets, and anyone interested in regulating from traumatic experiences.
This workshop focuses on emotions - what they are and how they manifest, and the “internal family” of parts that each character may have. This workshop, like Part 1, is experiential and involves relaxation techniques and writing exercises. Please wear your comfiest clothes, perhaps use a yoga mat, cushions blankets etc and interact as much or as little as you like. If you did not attend Part 1, no worries - watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2_gLFyIu3E
There will be some assumed knowledge required for Part 2, and the video covers most of that.
Speaker: Sumitra Singam is a Malaysian-Indian-Australian who writes in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work has been published widely, nominated for a number of Best Of anthologies, and was selected for BSF 2025. She was the winner of our own Margaret Hazzard Short Story Award in 2022. She works as a psychiatrist and trauma therapist and runs workshops on how to write trauma safely, and the Yeah Nah reading series. She’ll be the one in the kitchen making chai (where’s your cardamom?) You can find her and her other publication credits on Bluesky: @pleomorphic2 & sumitrasingam.squarespace.com