Write for Your Life: Cultivating Well-Being in Uncertain Times with Jennifer Schulz, PhD, LMHC
Week of March 21, 2026
What if well-being isn’t the absence of suffering, but a way of breathing through it—with imagination as guide and companion? Let’s explore how navigating these uncertain times through writing practice can become a generative catalyst for deeper meaning and connection.
Evening Presentation
In an evocative evening presentation, we’ll travel through recent literary works that speak from the edges—where grief, beauty, and uncertainty meet—and consider how they shape a more tender, resilient vision of what it means to be well. Rooted in both teaching and trauma-informed practice, this is a conversation about stories that steady us, even as the ground shifts beneath our feet.
Afternoon Writing Sessions
Three generative workshops offer a space to quiet the inner critic, loosen expectation, and write from curiosity rather than control. With evocative prompts and playful practice, we’ll open to surprising language and insight—discovering the familiar made strange, and the difficult made more spacious. These sessions are meant both for individuals who are interested in writing as a daily practice and for those who are already working on a longer project. They are stand-alone sessions, but they can also be used to build on each other.
Session 1: Change the Metaphor, Change the Reality
Discover how new figures and word combinations can shift perspective and open unexpected emotional truths.
Session 2: Storytelling in Lived Time
Braid past, present, and what’s still becoming—find surprising resonances and meaning through this unique form.
Session 3: Writing as a Communal, and Collaborative, Act
Write in conversation—with others, with yourself. Encounter what becomes possible through reciprocity and play.
Jennifer Schulz, Ph.D., LMHC, is a literature professor, psychotherapist, and writer. For the past 30 years, she has taught creative writing, literature, clinical psychology, and interdisciplinary studies at Seattle University and the University of Washington, Bothell. She also leads creative writing workshops in the Seattle community and maintains a private psychotherapy practice specializing in helping adults navigate anxiety, depression, and trauma. Many of her clients are writers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists.
Her published works include creative nonfiction and scholarly articles on integrating creative practices into clinical settings and research. Jennifer is also the Director of the Seattle University-Pacific Northwest Ballet Educational Partnership, providing undergraduate education to professional dancers in Seattle.