“Sustainable Storytelling” with Kristen Caven April 24, 2022
Some of us write to process difficult times in our lives. Some of us write to help others out of difficulty. Some of us do the job of sending our characters to hell and back! In this interactive storytelling workshop, novelist/playwright/cartoonist/psychology writer Kristen Caven will teach four positive psychology principles of post-traumatic growth that will energize your writing, inspire your readers, and actually help you live longer (so you can finish all your work)! After this short presentation, writers will be able to discuss these activities in breakout groups and return for Q&A.
About Kristen Caven

Kristen Caven is the author of Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career, The Reason She Left, and The Souls of Her Feet; and co-author of On the Wings of Self-Esteem, The Bullying Antidote, and the forthcoming 35th anniversary edition of The Winning Family: Where No One Has to Lose. She blogs nationally for ADDitude Magazine, and has spoken at AWP and the San Francisco Writers Conference. Locally, she’s been a featured presenter at StorySlam Oakland, Dirty Old Women, and Full of Crow, and her plays Be Mused and The Dirndl Diaspora both feature Oakland happenings.
Kristen is also a CWC Jack London Award Winner and a certified Positive Psychology practitioner who teaches fitness, happiness, and nutrition at the Flab Lab Department of Vitality. She is the past president of the CWC Berkeley Branch and the current Writer in Residence at Joaquin Miller Park, where this event will be held. You can come up the the Park and join Kristen on a monthly writing retreat or drawing party for her forthcoming children’s book, “Joaquin Miller Went Walkin’”.
Visit Kristen’s website (www.kristencaven.com) or follow her Instagram (@generous_muse). Visit Uplift Press for a free ebook excerpt from her forthcoming book The Winning Family: Where No One Has to Lose.
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Tess Caldwell is an ambitious, dedicated and enthusiastic undergraduate Media and Screen Studies student at Northeastern University. She also serves as the Web Editor for the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club.
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