Yesterday was the last meeting of the Art for Recovery Healing through Writing workshop for this spring session. One of the prompts I offered was a list of quotes from Alice Walker’s, “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens”:
This was my response:
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Just a reminder — this new, monthly Saturday afternoon writing space commences this coming Saturday, 6/19! This new group is in direct response to the folks who’ve been wanting a general-topic writing space — read on for more info, and then visit our Contact page to reserve a space!
Writing the Flood
Open the gates and let your writing voice flow
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This is from the Art for Recovery/Healing through Writing workshop last Thursday — the prompt was a poem from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, (“Words For It”), and then we started with the phrases, “I wish I could take language and…” or “This is what I want my stories to do…”
This is what I want my stories to do: I want the stories to do the work for me, I want them to go back in time and change what happened, I want us to be able to breathe again.
What I want is for my stories to open me to you — I want you to see what I hide. I want you to look under the metaphors and sentences for the scraps and facts of me. I want you to see what’s left of my childhood behind that poem. I want you to welcome my badness with open arms, the way you welcome the sing-song of my lines.
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Hi all!
Thanks so much to a diligent commenter, who let me know that the Writing Ourselves Whole contact page wasn’t working! I’ve made some updates, and our “Sign Up/Contact” page is back up and running.
Thanks and looking forward to writing with you soon!
Jen
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Happy June, all! There are a bunch of writing opportunities this summer: the familiar Write Whole (for women survivors of sexual trauma) and Declaring Our Erotic workshops on Monday and Tuesday nights, respectively, and a new workshop starting Saturday, June 19: Writing the Flood, a monthly general-topic writing workshop open to all!
And see the end of the note for info about the workshop I’m offering at FEMME2010 (don’t forget to register soon!)
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Reposting a message I received from the folks at the Pacific School of Religion (I might not have looked there for transformative writing experiences, but just look what I would have missed!) If you’ve never had a chance to write with Pat Schneider, and you can make this workshop, I’d encourage you to sign up right this minute — it’ll change your life.
best!
Jen
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This is a write from last night’s Write Whole workshop — as a prompt, in light of it being Memorial Day, I asked us to consider what or who we’d like to have a whole day to remember or recognize:
I want the entire country to come to a stand still in recognition and honoring of all of us–the ones who wear the breath of baited battle, the ones who got shoved open for our mother’s enemy, the ones who learned too hard to slam shut.
I want banks to close, for tellers and secretaries to type up and print out little signs on plain white paper that get taped up to the insides of office doors, signs that read: “We will be closed in remembrance of all those who have been affected by sexual violence.” More than fifty percent of the staff will recognize it as their own personal holiday. Another quarter or third will wonder why they’re so sad, but won’t remember.
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