Our May Writing Works Wellness Wednesday workshop with Warner Media focused on the importance of personal wellness to help achieve professional and academic success—an especially important workshop during this time!
Reasons Girls Write Now mentees joined the workshop:
- 85.7% to practice writing as a therapeutic tool
- 83.33% to focus on their own wellness
- 66.67% to explore their own writing
- 45.24% to learn to shift their perspective
Reasons Warner employees joined the workshop:
- 100% to engage with NYC youth
- 100% to support the next generation of writers and leaders
- 33.3% to focus on their own wellness
Girls Write Now mentees gained from workshop:
- 100% of mentees gained something useful in at least two of these areas: identifying emotions they’re struggling with, processing emotions, knowing they’re not alone in struggling with negative emotions, shifting their perspective through writing, reducing anxiety by shifting perspective, getting tools for managing emotions, and learning to work with who they are.
- 83% of mentees gained something useful in three or more of those areas.
Warner employees gained from the workshop:
- 100% of Warner employees gained something useful from at least two of these areas: identifying emotions they’re struggling with, processing emotions, knowing they’re not alone in struggling with negative emotions, shifting their perspective through writing, reducing anxiety by shifting perspective, getting tools for managing emotions, and learning to work with who they are.
- 83% of Warner employees gained something useful in four or more of these areas
After the workshop:
- 100% of Girls Write Now mentees said they would do at least one of the following after the workshop: use writing to explore their emotions, practice shifting their perspective, set intentions, recommend GWN workshops to a friend
- 100% of Warner employees said they would do at least one of the following after the workshop: use writing to explore their emotions, practice shifting their perspective, set intentions, recommend GWN workshops to a friend