For over 15 years, Jonathan has been leading creative writing and performance workshops across the nation. Pulling from his vast experience as a performer, director, playwright, poet, teaching artist, and community activist, he’s developed a number of workshops that appeal to varying demographics. Jonathan has lead hundreds of students of all ages in his unique and compelling writing and performance classes. He tours the nation, performing and offering his one of a kind insight on using creativity as a means for emotional health, personal growth, and professional prosperity. He has also worked with incarcerated youth and adults to develop their writing, all while providing them with an effective and fun-filled curriculum that teaches students life skills through creative writing and performance. Jonathan Samuel Eddie  is a powerful yet humorous motivational speaker and teaching artist. From serving in numerous leadership roles, from student government president to an orientation leader, as an undergraduate at Georgia Southern University, he also offers some great best practices to current student leaders, as to not burn out from their necessary but rigorous involvement. From the classroom to the conference keynote level, his sessions are life changing and tangible to audiences of all ages.

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Jonathan is eager and available to craft a speech, performance feature, artist resdiency and/or writing & performance workshop for your group or organization today. 

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He has workshops prepared on the below subject areas to name a few. He can create and customize a workshop/residency to meet your organization needs. 

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• Joy

• Grief

• Social Activism

• Intersectionality 

• Caregivers

• Student Leadership

• Creative Wellness

• Humor As Healing

• Finding Your Voice As An Artist- Introduction to Spoken Word
   

In his “Good Grief” workshop, through a series of creative writing exercises, students discover ways to transform their traumas into catalysts for personal growth, all while raising their voices for change in their communities. The “Words To Live By” workshop, students gain several fun and innovative tools to put an end to the dreaded "Writer's Block".   From his work as a wellness instructor with the Muscogee County Juvenile Drug Court system, he has also designed an effective and fun-filled curriculum that teaches students life skills through creative writing. Students have experienced the benefits of this auxiliary arts education in their intellectual, personal, and social development.

He has also been widely sought out for Grades K - 12  arts integration facilitation and writing/performance workshops.  Jonathan curates an inclusive learning experience based on curriculum standards and/or needs of the client, all while creating and maintaining a trauma sensitive leaning environment.  His gentle, creative, and liberating style of teaching is perfect for your special event, training, classroom, conference, business, organization, or college event. Book Him! 

Regardless of the workshop, attendees will not only leave with the ability to produce a polished piece of creative writing and an understanding of how to submit their work for publication, but also develop an understanding of their own influences and aesthetic values as writers and how their own work fits into larger literary traditions. Workshop participants will also feel comfortable in sharing their work in public via the performance anxiety tools that Jonathan offers.

Below is a list highlighting some of the organizations and events that Jonathan Samuel Eddie has conducted creative writing/performance workshops and speaking engagements:

• National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)

• Big Tree Arts, Inc. (Boise, ID)

• Forward Arts, Inc. (Baton Rouge, LA)

• North Georgia History Center (Gainesville, GA)

• Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, GA)

• Chattahoochee Valley Writer’s Conference ,Inc. (Columbus, GA)

• Springer Opera House (State Theatre Of Georgia) (Columbus, GA)

• Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA)

• Alabama State Poetry Society (Montgomery, AL)

• Middle Georgia Regional Library System (Dublin, GA)

• Twin Cedars Youth & Family Services (Columbus, GA)

• Crossroads Alternative School (Atlanta, GA)

• Atlanta Young Writer’s Institute (Atlanta, GA)

• Girls, Inc. (Columbus, GA)

• Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival

• Muscogee County Department Of Juvenile Justice (Columbus, GA)

• Muscogee County School District (Columbus, GA)

• Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (Auburn University/Clayton, AL)

• Girls Inc. of Columbus and Phenix-Russell (Columbus, GA/Phenix City, AL)

*References Available Upon Request

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Please click here to visit Jonathan's profile on the Georgia Teaching Artist Registry.