Writing For Healing The Body, an eight week program.
Do you find yourself looking in the mirror and telling yourself how much you hate your body or some part of your body? Or not wanting to have photos taken of you because you do not like the way you look?
Perhaps ageing finds you at odds with your body -- the wrinkles, changes in skin and hair, sagging.
Or you may be struggling with an illness or disability.
Being at odds with our bodies makes us at odds with ourselves, no matter what it is that we are struggling with.
Writing For Healing The Body helps you to explore issues relating to body image and acceptance, with feelings about your body, with problems coming to terms with your body. The goal of this group is to encourage the healing process of accepting your body, to move to loving and fully inhabiting the body you have in order to live as fully as you are able. We will do this through writing with exercises designed to help you explore your matters of the body and help you to better understand where you are and where you want to go.
You will be supported to write the stories that you may not have told anyone before about how you feel about and in your body. The course is confidential -- everyone agrees to keep each other’s stories private and contained. Guidelines for listening to the work of others and offering feedback will be given in order to create a safe space for each member.
Please note: While writing is highly therapeutic, this class does not offer group therapy or individual counseling. We share stories, but we do not seek advice or try to advise one another.
This is an 8-week class for women with issues relating to their bodies. Members will spend time each week writing at home. Prompts and exercises will be offered for each week to help guide writing. Members may choose to share what they have written, though there is no requirement to do so.
We will use a private discussion forum. I will post writing exercises and material to read. You may post your writing (if you wish) and read the writing of others. We will use the discussion forum for discussions about the assignments, about body issues, about writing, about the process of personal exploration through writing. Our network will not be visible to anyone outside of our group and accessible only to members. Ten days after the ending of the class, I will delete all writings and discussion.
Because of the format, people are free to participate each day within their own schedule, which will make it easier for everyone to participate.We will create a safe space for this work by committing to full confidentiality when reading the work posted in this class. Feedback will be supportive, with an eye to the visions and the goals of the writers. Our goal is to facilitate healing and personal growth, not to focus on the mechanics of writing.
Members agree to commit to spending time each day (about 3- 4 hrs per week) reading and writing and commenting on the writing of other class participants and participating in discussions. I will be participating daily in discussions.
The class will be limited to 8 members. The charge for this course is $200, payable via Paypal. Individual consultations are available for an additional fee upon request.
Email me with questions or for further information about this group. You may contact me by using the form at the right. Please put Writing for Healing in the subject line. I ask that you make an advance payment of $35.00 to secure your place in the class.
Writing For Healing: Learning to Love Your Body will begin in late September 2011 -- 3 spaces left