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Write With Us
June 16 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Writers Collective of Canada and Kind Space invites you to join us for our afternoon writing workshops. Write With Us! Our first meeting will be held on Monday June 16th, 2025, and our subsequent meetings will happen monthly on the third monday from 3-5PM. We are all connected through story. Stories have the power to remove barriers of difference and to broaden perspectives. By writing together and listening to others with positive feedback, we connect with the common humanity that bonds us all. Partnering with Kind Space, WCC believes that every voice deserves to be heard. No experience is necessary and we will provide writing materials to each new participant. Join one, two or all four summer sessions at your own pace, and come to write and share your writing journey with others.
Please join us for our first session, we will only be able to accept about a maximum of 8 people per workshop. We will select participants based on first come basis. We apologize in advance, we will email those participants who in the event that the form does not close at 8 submission, we will also email those people to inform them and add them to our waitlist. If you register and don’t plan on attending please let us know so we can open up registration. Thank you so much
Biographies:
Kathleen Conibear
Ottawa, Ontario
Kathleen’s association with WCC began in the early days of Covid as a writer in WCC workshops offered through Mood Disorders Ottawa (MDO). She was so excited by the experience that she became a facilitator as soon as she could. She has conducted over 50 woekshops for WCC
In addition, she volunteers for several other organizations. She has provided peer support facilitation for MDO, PSO (Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa), OCO (Ontario Caregivers’ Organization), and Kind Space (LGBTQ2S+ Community Centre). She is also part of the OHT-CPT (Ottawa Hospital Team – Client/Partner Table) and the OHT-MHSU sub-committee (OHT – Mental Health and Substance Use) as well as the Patient Navigation working group. Recently she was a member of the Advisory Committee for the OCO’s storytelling project “Sharing for Change”. She also participated in the “Elder Queer” history workshops hosted by the NAC.
Kathleen has also been involved with WCC’s Write On! program and two of her short stories were published in the 2022 Front Lines anthologies.
Roman (Ro) Dineen (they/them)
Ottawa, Ontario
Roman Dineen (they/them) is a trans non-binary and gender fluid person living in Ottawa. They live with mental health challenges and chronic health conditions that have resulted in hospitalization and outpatient care. Ro is a determined individual who looks for tools and knowledge to empower their choices and actions. They model self-determinism and strength by participating in peer support and creative expression. Writing is a tool for Ro to acknowledge their lived reality and find ways to pay tribute to the best and worst parts of being human. They love dogs, their family, and the medications that keep them alive.
Location and Accessibility Notes
Kind Space
400 Cooper Street
9th Floor, Unit #9001
More information including parking at: https://kindspace.ca/about/accessibility/
Entrance to the building is accessible from the sidewalk which is level with the main doors. Curb cuts are located on the corner of Cooper and Bank and in front of 420 Cooper (CCHC) which is connected to 400 Cooper.
Automatic doors at the main entrance, easily accessed before 6pm on weekdays. Support may be required after 6pm or weekends due to the security settings of the building.
Mix of carpet and tiled flooring on the main floor and in the elevators
Low pile carpet on the 9th floor
3 large elevators
