SOMATIC STORIES: Writing Trauma Into Transformation | Workshop | ATTUNE Festival

Writing is more than words on a page — it can be a way to listen to the body, move through pain, and discover new possibilities for healing.

In this workshop, Chloe Higgins — award-winning author of The Girls and writing coach — invites participants to explore writing as a somatic practice. Through guided exercises, she helps you write from the body, transforming unspoken feelings and challenging experiences into story, art, and meaning.

With compassion and courage, Chloe draws on her own journey with grief, love, and family to show how the act of writing can support daily practice, emotional release, and creative renewal. No writing experience is required — only a willingness to feel, notice, and put pen to page.

FREE WITH REGISTRATION
Presented by The Indigo Project

ATTUNE: A free digital festival.
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About Chloe Higgins

Chloe Higgins is an author and writing coach who helps people transform their deepest experiences into powerful stories. Her debut memoir, The Girls — an unflinching exploration of family, grief, and sexuality — won the People’s Choice Award at the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and was shortlisted for both the National Biography Award and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

Chloe’s work is grounded in courage and honesty: she writes about what she fears most — death, love, sex, and the complex relationships that shape us. Alongside her writing, she is the Director of Wollongong Writers Festival and mentors students to cultivate a daily creative practice. As a coach, she teaches writing from the body, guiding others to access deeper layers of memory and truth.

Her mission is to support writers in turning vulnerability into art and stories into transformation.