Workshop Retreat: Writing Longhand as a Way into One’s Mythic Patterns
Following on the lecture, we will use several riting meditations from my book, Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story to amplify some of the ideas offered in the lecture. One need not have been present at the lecture to participate in the riting retreat. Riting is a ritual, a crafted space, time and disposition in which we call to those voices and presences that are part of our myth to come forth to be heard and recorded through writing long hand. At this Workshop Retreat leave laptops at home. Writing long hand will be our mode of expression, so bring a journal or a notebook, and a pen. I will supply the meditations from the book. We will explore various dimensions of the self as corridors into increasing our awareness of the myth we are living and being lived by. One of my hopes is that you consider purchasing Riting Myth so to continue your own exploration either individually or, as I have learned, in small groups that meet once a month.
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