Upcoming Events

Writing Workshops

---

FAMILY MATTERS: A Monthly Monday Night Writing Group First Monday of each month from 6:00-8:00pm on Zoom New session begins on September 8, 2025 Class schedule: September 8th, October 13th, November 3rd, December 8th, January 5th (Note: September & October are the 2nd Monday of the month) Fee: $750   Join us: 5 two-hour workshops will help you bring your stories to life on the page. Foster your creativity and learn the craft of writing: generative writing exercises, meditations, and discussion of assigned short readings. PLUS: Submit your work –each month receive developmental and line editing (1250 words –5 pages double spaced). Whether you write fiction or creative non-fiction, memoir or personal essays, our workshop will help you tap into your experiences and turn them into stories. In class and homework exercises for each session. Co taught with **Laura Zinn Fromm Short reading material will be sent before each session. PAYMENT: To reserve, please Zelle @ jrrabinor@gmail.com, Venmo @Judith-Rabinor or send a check to Judy Rabinor, 250 West 90th Street, Apt 7a, NYC, NY 10024.

---

WRITING OUR SECRETS December 8 1-3 pm Hybrid: 155 W 68 st NYC & Zoom The power of secrets has shaped stories from Shakespeare and the Greeks to Liane Moriarity and Jodi Picoult. A concealed fact– whether hidden or ultimately revealed–can transform a character’s life. In this workshop we will draw inspiration from literature and discuss the use of secrets, lies and suspense in storytelling. Experiment in revealing–or containing– the secrets that shape you and your characters! Co taught with *Laura Zinn Fromm To register: two options 1) If you have a work in progress (fiction/non-fiction/essay or memoirand would like feedback: submit up to 10 pages (2500 words double spaced in 12-14 [point type) for line edits and written feedback: $350. 2) Show up without a submission: $250. * Laura Zinn Fromm is an award-winning journalist with publications The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek (where she was a former reporter and editor) and elsewhere. She is the author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Coping and Cooking. E-mail me at jrrabinor@gmail.com with questions!    THE HEALING POWER OF WRITING : Fostering Mindfulness, Resilience and Creativity Via Zoom Monday Dec 16, 2024 6 pm EDT on Zoom : FREE   Writing allows us to dig down deep and  befriend our inner life. If you would like to explore and experience the healing power of writing join me! Via meditation, writing exercises, optional sharing and group discussion, you will have the opportunity to develop your own creativity and resilience. To reserve, please Zelle or Venmo @Judith-Rabinor or send a check to Judy Rabinor, 250 West 90th Street, Apt 7a, NYC, NY 10024.

Writing Our Mothers: Workshop with Esther Cohen – IN PERSON!
JOIN us to write, share (optional) discuss the ways our mothers live on in us!

December 5, 2024 1-2:30 pm EDT
$30 for members, $40 for non members 

Location: 334 Amsterdam Ave at, W 76th St, New York, NY 10023
 
This workshop, co-led by a psychologist and an author, explores the complexity of mothering and motherhood. Through meditative writing exercises, participants will explore and expand their own complex experience as daughters and/or mothers. Come alone or bring your mother or daughter.

---

Shoutouts & Recommendations

 

Special Applause: Special applause to my dear friend and colleague, Sondra Kronberg, RD who has generously devoted her time and energy creating and hosting Chats in the Living Room, a support group for all who struggle with food, body image, eating problems and disordered eating. First chat was in 2020 – she’s still full steam ahead! Click here for future speakers – all eating disorder experts!

  The Renfrew Center Foundation’s 2024 Conference– for Professionals  – don’t miss the premier eating disorder conference in the country. Begins November 8. All Virtual! Click here for information/registration.

Past Events

To view past events please click here.