Window, Mirror, Map: Exploring Self in a Creative Notebook Practice
Oct
1
to Oct 8

Window, Mirror, Map: Exploring Self in a Creative Notebook Practice

Take stock of where you are now and explore your vision for the future using mixed media visual art and writing in a creative notebook practice.

Whether you are new to personal writing and art or have an established practice that is ready for a refresh, this online class will offer you inspiration and specific prompts to deepen your understanding of yourself through this creative art form.

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Grief Pages: Moving Through Change & Loss with a Creative Notebook Practice TLA Network Online Class
Jan
12
to Feb 23

Grief Pages: Moving Through Change & Loss with a Creative Notebook Practice TLA Network Online Class

Grief Pages: Moving Through Change & Loss with a Creative Notebook Practice - a 6-week online course with live ZOOM sessions starting January 12, 2022. Facilitated by Dr. Lisa Chu. Hosted by Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN). 20% off tuition through December 31, 2021.

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Remembering Our Mothers: A Writing Practice
Apr
29
9:00 PM21:00

Remembering Our Mothers: A Writing Practice

Join us as we create time, space, and a practice to explore our connections with our mothers and ourselves.

Join us for one day or all three days, where we will engage in a short timed writing practice that you can develop and continue on your own.

All feelings, all types of relationships with mothers, living or dead, all levels of complexity are welcome.

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Hear Your Heart Speak with Embodied Storytelling
Oct
8
to Nov 12

Hear Your Heart Speak with Embodied Storytelling

  • Stanford Redwood City - Cardinal Hall, Room 145 (map)
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Enroll in Hear Your Heart Speak: Embodied Storytelling for Wellness at Stanford University Redwood City campus.

In this 6-week class, you will engage in playful, creative, interactive exercises using your whole body, mind, and soul in vocal sound, movement, imagination, and listening, all in a supportive environment. At the end of the course, you will be able to engage in multiple modes of expression such as speaking, movement, sound, and gesture in telling stories of personal significance.

You will also learn ways of witnessing and supporting others in a creative process, learn specific practices for engaging in playful creative expression, and personally experience the energy, resilience, and healthy transformation that can come through storytelling.

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16th Annual Power of Words Conference 2019: Transformation, Liberation, and Celebration Through the Spoken, Written, and Sung Word
Sep
26
to Sep 29

16th Annual Power of Words Conference 2019: Transformation, Liberation, and Celebration Through the Spoken, Written, and Sung Word

  • Casa Franciscan Renewal Center (map)
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Transformative Language Arts Network presents the 16th Annual Power of Words Conference, September 26-29, 2019, at Franciscan Renewal Center, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Find your voice with workshops, performances, talking circles, celebration, and more, featuring writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, community leaders, activists, educators, and health professionals.

The conference, founded in 2003, features workshops in four tracks: narrative medicine, social change, right livelihood (and making a living through the arts), ecological literacy, and engaged spirituality.

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Voice Your Story, Hear Your Heart
Jan
13
10:00 AM10:00

Voice Your Story, Hear Your Heart

In this workshop, stories are written and told “off the page”, using the whole body, mind, and soul, in movement, words, gesture, vocal sounds, and imagination. Creating community and witnessing each other’s stories serves as catalyst for our own storyfinding.

Together we will practice ways of embodied, active storytelling that embrace the gifts and strengths of your unique voice, life experiences, and spontaneous expression. Be in a space of community in which each story is given and received with support and encouragement.

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InVisioning & Emergence: Trauma-Informed Nature & Art Healing Immersion
May
4
2:00 PM14:00

InVisioning & Emergence: Trauma-Informed Nature & Art Healing Immersion

As spring leads into summer, buds emerge and flowers bloom, anticipating the coming warmth and season of ripening.

This afternoon immersion is for those of us committed to exploring, restoring, and recovering our sense of inner calm and compassion, in the midst of a stressful world. We will define what trauma is, and observe how our bodies may have adapted to survive the particular circumstances of our lives. Our time together will support our conscious transition from conditioned states of stress response to a state of interconnected feeling and knowing. With deepening practice, these habits of listening, full presence, and sensory engagement with self and the environment, begin to permeate our everyday lives. 

What new growth might emerge in your relationships, your health, and your contributions to community from this state of awareness? Come explore with us.

Our experience is inspired by the alchemy of art and nature and supported by practice of The Four Gifts and Five Qualities of InVisioning & Renewal.

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