Who: Writers and non writers! Anyone interested in writing as a tool for creative expression and reflection, self discovery or meditation.
Where: What Cheer Writers Club, 160 Westminster Street, FL 2, Downtown Providence
When: Saturday, October 19 from 10am-5:00pm (Bring your own lunch or eat in the neighborhood).
Cost: $150.00 (What Cheer members receive $25.00 discount)
Enrollment: Limited to 6
Registration: We apologize this event has been cancelled.
Further information regarding What Cheer membership, parking, directions and the surrounding area WhatCheerClub.com
Instructor: Kim Chandler is a faculty member at the Proprioceptive Writing Center of Oakland, CA. She has studied and trained with the founder, Linda Trichter Metcalf since 1991. Her weekly classes, day long, weekend and five day PW immersions are offered at a variety of locations including her studio, Innerlight Center for Yoga & Meditation in Middletown, RI and Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA, the Rowe Center in Rowe, MA, Wisdom House in Litchfield, CT, and other private retreat venues.
“To be a writer, and especially to write out of your own life, you must be imaginative about what it’s like to be you…Writers have to penetrate experience.”
~ Linda Trichter Metcalf, Writing the Mind Alive.
Discover writing as a path to self-expression, creativity, and emotional health!
In this introductory workshop, participants learn the basics of this radical method for exploring consciousness.
Writers report that this method
• facilitates accessing personal material
• cultivates empathy, voice, imagination and vision
• develops the habit of attention to language and detail
• delivers creative pleasure
A simple method anyone can learn, Proprioceptive Writing® (PW) is a form of meditative writing that teaches you to listen to your thoughts with empathy and curiosity and reflect on them in writing. When engaging in this way you become open, receptive and focused. The mind is freed from anxiety and you feel refreshed, energized, and restored to your natural state of vibrant aliveness.
PW is a powerful tool that can focus awareness, dissolve inhibitions, and build self trust; unburden your mind and resolve emotional conflicts; write and speak with strength and clarity; awaken your senses and emotions; and liberate your creative energies.
Writing is not the end of the practice, but rather the means to gain insight into and power over how you live and think. In the short term PW invigorates your mind. Over time it strengthens your sense of self and connects you to the world. When practiced regularly, PW can bring a new sense of well-being and confidence that is vital to mental health and creativity.