training

WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW
THE CREATIVE POWER OF INQUIRY
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Write what you know. It is one of the most common bits of advice for beginning writers. But what does it really mean? What happens when we look at that old adage through the lenses of Buddhist inquiry and Insight meditation? In this workshop, we will examine how writing from embodied presence can transform your writing from a strictly intellectual endeavor to a spiritual one.

Offered as a three-hour workshop or full-day retreat, material covered will include:
  • A discussion of the writing process.
  • An exploration of the ways we get trapped in judging mind, both in our writing and in our lives, and become separated from what we know.
  • The session experience will include a series of guided meditations and inquiries designed to help you investigate, inquire, and access the power of awareness beyond the relative self and free your creativity.
Format
Part I: Welcome. Discussion of creative process and introduction of Buddhist inquiry and Insight meditation terminology and techniques. How they differ from what is has become generically termed “mindfulness.”

Break
Part II: Guided Meditation
Part III: Free Writing
​Part IV: Closing 

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS WRITER’S
BLOCK: ​ OVERCOMING RESISTANCE & THE INNER CRITIC

It is known by many names. Writer’s Block. Blank Page Syndrome. But is it real? What keeps us from getting started? What stops us in our tracks? This workshop examines the primary source of the experience known as writer’s block – our own resistance – and offers insights and tools for working your way through.

How the central question of Zen inquiry (What IS this?) or looking inward unblocks our creative potential and can be used as a technique for information our writing itself.

Offered as a three-hour workshop or full-day retreat, material covered will include:
  • The nature of resistance
  • Skillful awareness (being present and open to non-judging awareness)
  • Pay attention to the body, feeling in the body, thought forms and what is true?
  • Evicting the inner critic
  • Recognizing filters arising from conditioned mind states
  • The session experience will include a series of guided meditations and inquiries designed to help you investigate, inquire, and access the power of awareness and the freedom of creativity.
Format
Part I: Welcome
Break
Part II: Guided Meditation
Part III: Free Writing
​ Part IV: Closing 

Service Three

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