Writing Toward Wholeness Workshop

Writing Toward Wholeness Workshop

Rachel Weinhaus, MFA
Sunday, May 17, 2026,  1:30 to 4:00 PM
Location: Wydown United Church, 6501 Wydown Blvd, St Louis, MO 63105
$45 | $36 Members | $4.50 Full-Time Students

Maximum of 25 participants.

Reading Requirement: A list of writing prompts and examples will be sent to registered participants two weeks prior to the event. No required work other than familiarizing yourself with the writing prompts.

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In this workshop, participants will use personal narrative writing to explore the unconscious and bring forward memories, emotions, and sensory experiences that often remain unexamined.

Through guided reflection and writing prompts, participants will begin to recognize patterns, images, and inner voices that shape their lives, opening a path toward greater self-understanding and wholeness. Jung called this process individuation—the lifelong movement toward becoming one’s truest self.

Writing offers a way to meet the hidden parts of the psyche, to face fears and forgotten stories, and to transform what has been silent into a source of insight, healing, and freedom.

All writing levels are welcome! Whether you want to write a memoir or have struggled with writing your whole life, this workshop is for anyone who wants to explore their inner landscape, connect with their deeper self, and empower one another through story.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Use writing as a tool to discover unconscious material, including memories, emotions, and inner truths.
  2. Learn how constrained writing—through prompts and word limits—can help bypass habitual thinking and access deeper layers of the psyche.
  3. Develop a greater understanding of the inner world in order to enrich and integrate one’s lived experience.
  4. Experience writing as both an individual and communal act through the sharing and witnessing of work.
  5. Empower participants to use writing as an ongoing resource in the process of individuation, healing, and self-understanding.

Presenter

Rachel Weinhaus is a screenwriter, memoirist, and flash fiction writer. She earned an MFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television and a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, the Huffington Post, Insider, The Today Show, Kveller, Brevity Blog, and the Jewish Literary Journal. Her work has appeared in Trampset, Necessary Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, Micro Fiction Monday Magazine, Five Minutes, MoonPark Review, Moon City Press, Does It Have Pockets, and Bull Magazine. Her work has been selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss for the Best Microfiction 2026 Anthology. She sold her original screenplay, The Prince Test, to Emmy Award-winning producer Dan Heffner in 2015.

She has worked with producers and studios such as Serendipity Inc., Dolphin Entertainment, Arthur Sarkissian Productions, and many others. She was awarded the Women in Film Scholarship, sponsored by Ron Howard of Imagine Entertainment. Rachel has been teaching undergraduate and graduate screenwriting and creative writing classes for over fifteen years.