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About Life Righting Collective

The Life Righting Collective is a not-for-profit membership organisation aligned strongly with the international medical humanities movement. The movement promotes conversation between the arts and the social and health sciences focused on holistic well-being. Our purpose is to promote regular creative practice as a vital, low-cost and inbuilt resource for a more humane, responsible and compassionate attitude in institutions and society as a whole. To that end we have been invited to run life writing courses for climate change activists, entrepreneurs, faith communities, LGBTQIA+ activists, medical students and teachers. These collaborations are always mutually enriching. We are all living huge stories whether we realise it or not; some handed down through family and history, some embedded genetically and visited on us by circumstance, accident, politics or natural disasters. Finding out more about the story we are living allows us to engage with it, and to live it with curiosity and attention, rather than as the victim of our story. Sharing that story with others promotes empathy and tolerance, and can activate engagement, change attitudes and even overcome apathy where the issues explored by the writer affect a community. We run in-person, online and audio courses for anyone who wants to uncover personal meaning and facilitate self-recovery through writing about our life experiences. By providing a safe space to share our stories with others from all walks of life, the LRC promotes interaction, inclusiveness, cross-cultural learning and mutual understanding. Life writing is an economical, creative tool that promotes improved mental health. Most people in South Africa do not have access to any kind of debriefing of emotional trauma. Medical humanities research shows that people who write about their lives reap a range of benefits: increased self-esteem, greater self-understanding, improved self-expression and enriched relationships with others.

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