Workshop Series
Designed and facilitated reading experiences across contexts — from bibliotherapy workshops at Headspace to a silent readathon at Stanford Life Design Lab. Each one creates space for slow, intentional reading and the kind of self-discovery that happens when you stop performing comprehension.
A workshop series developed during my time at Headspace, bringing together mindfulness practice and bibliotherapy. Participants engaged with carefully selected literary passages — reading the same text multiple times with different intentions: for content, for feeling, for surprise.
The workshops drew on Lectio Divina and Jungian approaches to reading — treating the text not as information to extract, but as a mirror that reveals something about the reader. The goal was never "what does this mean?" but "what does this stir?"
A silent reading event designed for the Stanford Life Design Lab community. The idea was simple: create a shared space where people read together in silence — no discussion, no performance, just presence. Participants brought their own books and read for a sustained period, surrounded by others doing the same.
The readathon was designed around the insight that reading alone can feel like avoidance, but reading together — silently — feels like permission. For people who struggle with long-form attention, the social container makes it easier to stay.
The most consistent feedback across both formats: "I forgot I was supposed to be doing something." That's flow. People came expecting a program and found themselves simply reading — absorbed, unhurried, surprised by how long they stayed.
These workshops confirmed something I'd suspected: the biggest barrier to pleasure reading isn't time or interest — it's the absence of a space that treats reading as something worth protecting.
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