Popular columnist, novelist, editor and counsellor, Gouri Dange has been working and playing with words for the last 20 years. Her writing workshops draw a range of participants, where the emphasis is on helping people find their writerly voice. She is the author of three novels, four books on parenting, a children’s book, a book on a tyrant dog, and is currently working on two more books. She teaches Creative Writing at FLAME University.
She has been published by Penguin, Random House, Jaico, Harper Collins. Her columns and short stories appear in national newspapers and magazines.
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All of this will be through the use of creative writing tools, which make for a playful yet extremely meaningful engagement with long-standing issues for most participants.
Transformation and change, however dramatic or quiet, is always therapeutic and healing, as this workshop will demonstrate. The experiential nature of the workshop is designed to give participants insights into their attitudes and behaviours, and to help them view life issues, and their way of handling them, in new and different ways.
This 4-day workshop is of therapeutic value for all those who feel caught in a whirlpool of emotions or in an inflexible grid.
While the workshop will be conducted in English, those more comfortable in Hindi writing and communicating can participate fruitfully too.
At the end of this workshop, participants will emerge with a new understanding of themselves, their relationships, and some of their blind-spots. They will be able to look closely at what aspects of their own behaviour and relationships they must tend, mend, or end.
Dear GOD,
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me a part of this program. Thank you for helping Aziz and Ruuta create this beautiful bridge that connects people to their aspirations; and for choosing the right channels and mentors, (Gouri Dange), who pour their hearts into these workshops, to make our lives easier and better.
“Self-Awareness and Growth through Writing” was a place, crafted beautifully by Aziz, Ruuta, Kabir, Gouri, and all the lovely group of friends that I had been waiting to meet. They made me feel at home. A home called “My ownself”. I could connect with each one of the participants and the tools that Gouri Ma’am shared were like a fresh breeze. The best journey is within, and I have found a way to effectively communicate with myself. And the best part is it’s a two-way highway.
Lots and lots of love!
Student for Life,
Manish
Thank you so much for coming up with this. It was healing via writing, and it was beautiful.
What I most enjoyed about this workshop was the blend of writing and emotional health tools. I found myself involved, challenged to think and vulnerable throughout the 4 days. Those who like writing will definitely find this a fun experience though it is not a writing workshop. The mentor is knowledgeable in the field, well read and has a knack of getting the participants to feel comfortable sharing. The workshop does go into deep territory with regards to exploring our fears, anxieties and long held grievances. So I guess it will work only if one is willing to be open. The exercises are well defined and evocative and have potential to become long term habits. I would have preferred to participate in this face to face just because of the intense content but the online format worked well too.
Okay so at first I thought what will it be? Kya seekhungi mai iss workshop se..Though I saw Gauri ma’am on YouTube as well and mujhe unka vibe bht positive lga and what really hit me was that she has written books on parenting. I am so grateful to say that I ended up doing the 4 day workshop. It made me learn so much about myself, made me feel okay in being vulnerable and changed my perspective about myself. It was surely an emotionally draining process but it was worth every second of it. Thank you ma’am, sir and the whole team( the participants) who made me feel so comfortable, who gave me space to speak and share about my vulnerabilities. It was really a life changing sort of experience for me. Thank you everyone.
And a big thankss to all of you for being so kind, encouraging and supportive. I really felt comfortable around each one of you and kl ka session toh was magical. Bht mazaa aaya. Thank youu everyone.
Gauri ma’am, Azir sir and all of you. We were a great team.
Four evenings of learning with a fabulous mentorand guide, a great bunch of course mates, interesting exercises, and the permission to accept all my emotions as valid. Truly empowering.
This was something completely new for me. I was allowed to open closets I had forgotten about and process the emotions I had not been in touch with.
Fully enjoyed the workshop. The pace at which it was conducted helped me slow and reflect on some of the real and important things in life. Big thanks to Gouri and Living Bridge!
I believe there are no coincidences in life. Some things are meant to happen if we listen carefully to the voice of the universe. I was planning to enroll in one of Gauri Daange’s creative writing workshops but accidentally stumbled upon this one. While my brain was pushing me to enroll in the creative writing workshop, the pull towards this one was sharp. Defying every logic and reason my mind threw at me, I still went ahead and enrolled while I felt there was no burning need to do this workshop. And thank God, I did so! What a beautiful way to detox the mind in just 4 sittings. The mentor has brilliantly chosen and paced the different writing activities, helping us journey through the mindscape that has gathered moss of different textures over the years, blinding us to some of the most obvious truths. I believe I came out with a kind heart!
My mentor was an entertaining person to listen to and the exercises that she suggested were very insightful about my own parts of myself that I do not acknowledge as much. It is worth it if one participates in the talks that were done and follows along on what she says with an open mind.
Gouri’s unique combination of expertise, experience and insight created a safe space for participants to dive beneath the surface and explore their own hidden depths.. It has given me inspiration, perspective and new ways to express myself. Listening to others share their inner world through the writing exercises was extremely moving. It was a privilege to take part in this workshop
I found the workshop immensely rewarding. It uncovered life experiences I had left unexamined. The toolkit provided by Gouri, the mentor, was imaginative and cathartic. Thank you, Living Bridge!
The workshop was an enriching experience, with a fantastic mentor. Ms.Gauri Dange is charming,witty and connected with us on a deep level. I felt very much relaxed, at times anxious but overall my growth and awar3ness increased. 3 cheers for this!
This was the most incredible workshop ! I’m so glad I took it up in the beginning of the year! Kudos to Living Bridge team and heartfelt thanks to our mentor , Gouri Dange
The entire process involved in the workshop was a gradual journey towards self-realization. The exercises kept me engaged without feeling bored. It was simply intriguing. Warmth and friendliness received from the mentor-Gauri Dange Ma’am and partner Aziz Rajaballi Sir is worth mentioning. Individual space, freedom of expression, respect for a few inhibitions are a few of my observations and much appreciated ones.
I felt content and free by the end of the workshop. Sincere gratitude to the Living Bridge Team and to Gauri Dange Ma’am, specifically.
I am glad I signed up for this workshop.
These 4 days were indeed a journey of self-awareness and growth.
Looking forward to attending more workshops like these!
It was an absolute pleasure to be a part of this workshop, headed by Dear Gouri! The way Gowri showed interest, direction and careful concern regarding the self- awareness and growth process that each participant goes through while on this workshop, was exemplary. Heartfelt thank you to her and the team at LivingBridge for facilitating such a wonderful session every single day for the workshop duration. Looking forward to more such sessions in the future.
I joined this workshop straight after the paws and pens workshop and I was glad that I did. The self reflection and expression that Gouri encouraged us to do in this workshop helped me go deeper into the parts of me that needed healing and expressing. This workshop came at just the right time at the beginning of 2021 and helped set the tone for 2021. Although parts of myself were hard to confront and acknowledge, Gouri’s compassionate and non-judgemental approach helped me go a lot deeper than I had imagined I would. Her narratives and examples of written work from previous groups helped a lot too. The group was so supportive and kind and reading the posts from others helped me to address my own fears and concerns. The new perspective gained from reading about some one elses pain and how they addressed it was indeed a gift. I would recommend this workshop to anyone who is interested in exploring their emotional journey, conflicts, sadness, fears and concerns.
The learnings from this workshop has stayed with me for months.
It is like a fresh burst of mint that you carry within. It slowly keeps releasing its juices and gives you heightened taste for your life, your self and keeps building you block by block long after it is over!!
Thank you Gouri Dange and Living Bridge for adding power to me.
The four-day workshop organized by Living Bridge and mentored by Ms. Gouri Dange was just incredible. I found it to be profoundly therapeutic. I have grown as a writer and as an individual too. I am now able to channel my healing through writing. I’m also discovering ways about myself as I continue working on the writing exercises taught in the workshop. Yes, it’s fantastic, because the writing exercises are for life and you can always go back to them. I would highly recommend this to any individual looking to find more meaning in their lives, who wants to grow or discover themselves, become more self-aware, or just wants a learning experience, then this is a must try. You won’t be disappointed and you will definitely come back for more! I, for one, am certainly looking forward to part 2 of this workshop, in case they do consider 🙂
Gouri Ma’am was simply amazing. I’m truly in awe of her. She’s a wonderful human being. All the participants in the workshop were super nice too, beautiful souls. I learnt a lot from each one of them. Overall, my experience was just phenomenal and I will surely consider enrolling for more workshops here in the future!
Gouri Dange gently shows how to resolve conflicts with the self and with others. It’s all about perspective – and she will show you how. This is a very enjoyable journey into the self and one comes out of it with a gentle smile.
This workshop had me going into such depths that were uncomfortable for me, but I am so glad that I did it.
If you think you know how to express yourself…. Well think again! With this course with Gouri Dange you come out so much more alive, filled with new ways to express…. Unbelievable to see how the untapped just gushes out… Gouri guides you so gently…. Loved it
The course conducted by Gauri was not about how and what to write in a book, I think everyone has an inspirational story to write about..but most of us are not in the right state of mind. Our brain is tangled up so much these days, that it makes us handicapped to do anything.
What this course was about is freeing your mind and writing about your mind, before you start writing about other things. Sometimes words are hard to express verbally. This course gave a channel to let out the stuff and ground ourselves. This makes you light inside, most importantly. The creativity is no problem, clarity is what we all need.
When you write about your feelings, we realise how hard it is to express exactly what we want to say without the gibberish. This is what this course made us do. It shook us from the inside to get all the bottled up feelings (gunk) out of our system. So I will recommend this course to those who want to write to feel better about themselves..
It was an enriching experience. Looking forward to learning more from Ms Dange.
These exercises are a go to in terms of helping me feel freedom and also loads of layers of unspoken, repressed and clogged emotions peeled off from my personality through the cathartic and well structured writing exercises and nicely guided by Gauri that helped me be truly present to myself, and just enjoyed going with the flow with other participants and their insights as well.
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