Upcoming Summer 2012 Terms – April 12 – Sept 5, 2012
(NOTE: Our academic week will begin on Thursday and end on Wednesday. This is to allow those who work full-time to participate on weekends and still gain the benefit of classroom discussion and dialogue.)
New or Returning Non-Trainee Registration Page
All courses carry 8 hours of NBCC-approved continuing education.
Classes limited to 12
TERM 1: (July 12 – August 8, 2012)
Note 1: Scroll down OR click on Class Title to see course description.
Note 2: Once in class description, click on Instructor’s name to see instructor’s bio.
Weaving Shadow & Light in Life Story
The Space Between the Words: Writing the Lyric Essay
The Summer Day: Mary Oliver’s Summer Poems
TERM 2: (August 9 – September 7, 2012)
Night Write: Exploring Dreams (identical to Term 1)
Write to Recovery: Substance Abuse
Writing Through Transitions: A Facilitator Workshop
Traveling and Not Traveling: Poems by Billy Collins
Another Trip Around the Block (new/different from Term 1)
- COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Weaving Shadow & Light in Life Story
Instructor: Linda Joy Myers
Through our writing practice, we draw upon rich veins of memory and experience as we discover the layers and truths of our life journey. To present a well-rounded story that integrates all aspects of our life and to balance our emotional self, we need to weave the light and dark stories to create a tapestry that is healing and looks to the future. In this course we will work with specific ways to find that balance.
Required Text: None
Clearing Your Clutter
Instructors: Carolyn Koehnline
Clutter is the excess in your home, head, heart and schedule that drains your energy and gets in your way. Periodically weeding it out can lighten your load and clarify your direction, but the task can feel overwhelming and uncomfortable. We’ll incorporate playfulness, time-tested strategies, sacred intention, and helpful journal writing techniques along the way. You’ll identify what clutter is most relevant for you to address. Then you’ll practice and personalize a flexible clutter-clearing/space-creating strategy to use now and at any future transition points.
Required Text: Confronting Your Clutter , by Carolyn Koehnline
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Night Write: Exploring Dreams
Instructor: Linda Hendrick
Dreams bring us messages from Spirit, Self, and the Collective Unconscious. In this class you’ll learn how to interpret those dreams, unleash their wisdom and transform your life. You’ll work with your own dreams, as well as the dreams of your fellow students, and you’ll experience how working with others’ dreams can bring you amazing personal insights! Required text: Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill:Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious by Jeremy Taylor (Available at Amazon.com – new $17.63. Used text also available.)
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The Space Between the Words: Writing the Lyric Essay
Instructor: Mary Reynolds-Thompson
Imagine using Journal to the Self® techniques to craft beautiful essays: poetic, fragmented, filled with empty spaces and silence. The Lyric Essay is part poetry, part essay. Fiercely independent, it defies convention and category. Shopping lists follow character sketches, a line of poetry slips between prose, and white space interjects everywhere, requiring the reader to meditate on meaning. If you’re ready to stretch your writing wings–this class is for you.
Required Text: Journal to the Self, by Kathleen Adams, available through The TWInstitute for $14.00. You can order it HERE
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Writing from the Body
Instructor: Debbie McCulliss
In this class you’ll create relationship with your body by telling the stories of its celebrations, suffering, love, passion, awkwardness, and boldness. You’ll be guided through a series of writing processes to create safety and relationship with your body, and to gain insight and awareness as you reflect on its biography.
Required Text: None
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The Summer Day: Mary Oliver’s Summer Poems
Instructor: Linda Barnes
A beloved icon in contemporary poetry, Mary Oliver has written dozens of poems set in summer heat and bursting with summer blossoms, set in bright summer meadows and damp summer forests. In this class we will explore her poetic world and seek our own answers to the question of The Summer Day: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild, and precious life?”
Required Text: None
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Writing Around the Block
Instructor: Susan de Wardt
Call it Writer’s Block, fear of failure or plain ol’ laziness, but every writer gets stuck sometime. Instead of grabbing the remote or building the world’s largest house of cards, try these fun writing techniques to help silence that nasty internal critic and open up the creative side of your brain. Come prepared to play with words! No writing experience necessary.
Required Text: No text required!
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Writing the Labyrinth
Instructor: Rae Hight
Labyrinths and journals are natural companions. The meditative quality of walking a labyrinth welcomes, reflects and enhances our inner journey. * Writing the Labyrinth offers a two-fold exploration of this ancient process: journaling options before, during and after walking the pathway, along with historical facts about labyrinths. The latter will include information regarding how labyrinths are used for meditation and/or deepening spirituality, regardless of an individual’s language, references and practices. Through the use of art work and writing, students will participate in a metaphorical journey as they travel pathways that can become inspiration for internal understanding and self-empowerment.
(*Note: We will discuss the various ways labyrinths can be located and walked, including the use of paper, wooden and/or pewter templates for “finger” walking. )
REQUIREMENTS:
Text: Way of the Winding Path: A Map for the Labyrinth of Life, by Eve Eschner Hogan (available from Amazon.com for under $10.00)
Materials: Basic art supplies (i.e. colored pencils, pastel chalks)
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Journaling After Brain Injury
Instructor: Barbara Stahura
In the US, 1.5 million people suffer a traumatic brain injury annually, and many experience changes, often drastic, in the story of their lives. An important part of moving forward is being able to explore one’s feelings and thoughts about the “new normal” and about the many challenges it poses. This class guides you through a unique program written specifically for people with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other brain insults, valuable regardless of when the injury occurred. It also provides basic information about brain injury, some advice and cautions about working with this population, and a list of valuable resources for later use.
Required Text:After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, by Barbara Stahura and Susan B. Schuster, MA, CCC-SLP (Lash & Associates Publishing/Training, 2009). Available from instructor. $30, incl. S&H
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NIght Write: Exploring Dreams (identical to Term 1)
Instructor: Linda Hendrick
Dreams bring us messages from Spirit, Self, and the Collective Unconscious. In this class you’ll learn how to interpret those dreams, unleash their wisdom and transform your life. You’ll work with your own dreams, as well as the dreams of your fellow students, and you’ll experience how working with others’ dreams can bring you amazing personal insights!
Required Text: Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill, by Jeremy Taylor; (available at Amazon.com – new $17.63. Used text also available.)
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Write to Recovery: Substance Abuse
Instructor: Iris Wilkinson
This course will orient participants to specific applications of therapeutic writing with people in recovery. Focus is placed on strategies and techniques for those in early recovery, and also in the broadest sense of recovering essence and spiritual development.
Required Text
s:Journeynotes: Writing for Recovery and Spiritual Growth, by by Solly and Lloyd. Out of print; check Amazon or B&N used books (inexpensive).
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Writing Through Transitions: A Facilitator Workshop
Instructor: Leia Francisco
Given the complex and rapid nature of change today, we need powerful tools to manage our transitions and our emotional response to change. You will study the stages of psychological transitions, transitional tasks of adulthood, and writing tools for navigating change and exploring the creative potential of personal transitions. All participants will receive the instructor’s complete facilitation plans for a Writing Through Transitions workshop they can offer in their own communities.
Required Text:Writing Through Transitions, by Leia Francisco. Available through the author’s website, www.leiafrancisco.com.
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Traveling and Not Traveling: Poems by Billy Collins
Instructor: Linda Barnes
Former US poet laureate Billy Collins is well-loved for his sly wit and his ability to take his readers “sailing around the room.” We’ll sail with Billy, to physical places and made-up spaces, finally writing our way home.
Required Text: None
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Another Trip Around the Block (all new/different from Term 1)
Instructor: Susan de Wardt
More fun playing with words! Exercise your writing muscles with these creative writing techniques to help you break through any writer’s block. Try some Flash Fiction. Find new ways to approach writing for yourself or with clients. All new! Totally independent of Term 1. No writing experience necessary. No text required! Sharpen your pencils and get ready to write!
Required Text: No text required!
