Workshops
Sallie combines her talents and experiences to help people tap into their creativity and to foster a more hopeful and expansive dialogue around mental health issues at the local, state, and national levels. Towards those efforts, she is available for inspiring and interactive keynotes and writing workshops.
Sallie has given presentations and led writing workshops for myriad groups and organizations. She focuses on ways to find hope, gratitude, and joy.
Among the diverse groups for whom she has led workshops are patients and clinicians at The Menninger Clinic, the faculty at St. Phillip’s Episcopal School and Community Center in Dallas, and a writing group at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle.
She has given keynotes and been part of panels for The Menninger Clinic, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, Oral Fixation (An Obsession with True Life Tales), Dallas, and The Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center, Houston. Sallie has done readings and various bookstore events.
As a poetry mentor with Pongo Poetry Project in Seattle, she engaged youth in an incarcerated setting in writing poetry to promote healing.
The Menninger Clinic has been fortunate to welcome Sallie Crotty for writing workshops with our patients. Working with ease, care, and genuine skill with people living with severe mental illness, Sallie creates opportunities for connection and healing. Her workshops help patients reconnect with precious, sometimes lost parts of themselves—and rediscover meaning, purpose, and reasons to live.
– Gordon Meltzer,
CPRS, CPS, ICPR, The Menninger Clinic
Sallie leads us through a series of prompts/ reflections, then guides us to find the essence in our free writing. We are always amazed at the meaning and beauty and unexpected themes that emerge. Writers of any genre will benefit from Sallie’s uncanny ability to draw out of us what we didn’t know was there.”
– Elizabeth Clark-Stern
Author of The Language of Water
As a poetry mentor with Pongo Poetry Project, Sallie Crotty provided a brave space for incarcerated youth to share their story free of judgement. She possesses the ability to empathize with pain and celebrate joy, while supporting a creative outlet for self-expression. Anyone who takes a writing workshop with Sallie is in good hands.
– Ashley Skartvedt, MFA
Co-Executive Director, Programs, Pongo Poetry Project
Seattle, WA