WRITING FROM YOUR BODY

You carry every moment you have ever lived deep in the cells of your body.  Your mind may have forgotten an experience, but your body holds it and carries it forward.

You can draw on your body’s wisdom to deepen and enrich your writing whether you are writing for pleasure or for work, journaling for your personal growth, or putting together a report, writing fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose.

When you write from your body you can:

• Bring your attention to the “essence” of the piece you are working on (what is your most important reason for writing it? What calls you to write about this topic?)
• get a sense of how to organize your thoughts so that they support your intention
• find the “just right” words to capture a scene or situation
• find metaphors that create the emotional context that will give your writing its deepest meanings
• make your characters more complex and fully realized
• help your plots along by having the action move forward naturally from your character’s inner needs and unconscious motivations
• take a pause to get a clear sense of what is not working for you about a piece of writing
• use writing exercises in your community projects for building resiliency and self-confidence

There are six two-hour segments, meeting on Saturday mornings at 7:00 am Pacific time:

September 28:   Non-Fiction (essays/articles/newsletters/grants/reports/proposals/PR)

October 5:         Fiction (character development/character-driven plotting/pacing)

October 19:       Poetry (finding the poem as it emerges)

October 26:       Group Activities (writing exercises for group cohesion/creating resilience/ building confidence/healing)

November 2:     Journaling (personal growth and healing)

November 16:   Editing (revisiting with new eyes/does it work?)

Come prepared to do some writing.  Sharing is optional.  You can come with a specific writing project in mind if you like, or simply be open to writing whatever may come to you freshly in the moment.

You can sign up for the entire series for $180, or for any combination of sessions at $40 each.