Celia Chandler

clear communicator • engaging educator • socially minded • responsive • practical • creative dedicated profession • energetic motivator, coach and leader • analytical

Pandemic Passion - Writing, Reading, Learning

The Tempest workshop - presented by Shakespeare in Action, Weston - June - July 2020

Write your Grief - 30 days of grief prompts from Megan Devine, psychotherapist, writer, grief advocate, & communication expert - Sep-Oct 2020

Memoir Writing, Ink - 12 week on-line writing course led by Alison Wearing, memoirist and educator - Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

Digital Story Telling Workshop on MAID, with Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller, death educator at Lakehead University and story telling support from Revision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice - Mar 2021

GritLit Festival - workshops on grief and memoir writing, humour in writing, writing a bestseller, and readings from various Canadian authors - April 15-28, 2021

6 Minute Memoir Workshop - 3 week workshop by Anne Bokma, author, journalist, speaker, writing workshop leader - May 2021

Blog School, blogger Kerry Clare’s 8 week course on “how to find your blogging spark” - summer 2021

Improv Workshops - Shakespeare in Action, Weston - August 2021

Memoir Writing Ink. - 6 week Graduate workshop with award winning lyricist, poet and actress, Marion Adler - Oct - Nov 2021

Shaping your Story - 3 hour short course with Alison Wearing. - February 2022

Pandemic reading list: 


• It’s OK that you’re not OK, Megan Devine

• Moments of Glad Grace, Alison Wearing

• Talking About Death Won't Kill You: the Essential Guide to End of Life Conversations, Kathy Kortes-Miller

• My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life, Anne Bokma

• Educated, Tara Westover

• This is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man, Dakshana Bascaramurty

• Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats), Lorna Crozier

• The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for his Disabled Son, Ian Brown

• No Happy Endings, Nora McInerny

• If I Knew Then: Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging, Jann Arden

• Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, Lorna Crozier (Editor), Patrick Lane (Editor)


• Stolen Child: A mother’s journey to rescue her son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Laurie Gough

• Furiously Happy: A funny book about Horrible Things, Jenny Lawson

• The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue

• Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese

• Marilla before Anne, Louise Michalos

• Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter, Alison Wearing

• Nothing but the Truth, A Memoir, Marie Henein

• How to Lose Everything, A Memoir, Christa Couture

• The Bright Side: Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle, Cathrin Bradbury

• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance

• Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory, Sarah Polley

• Denial, Beverley McLachlin