Meditation and the Memoir: A Writing Workshop
Meditation and the Memoir: A Writing Workshop is a 2-day workshop, the €100 pay is for both the events on 6-4-2024 and 7-4-2024
Writing is a personally liberating and enlightening activity, especially when we write about ourselves. There is power, freedom, and contentment (the twin of happiness) that comes from expressing our thoughts, feelings, observations, and experiences.
In a memoir, we intertwine personal narratives from our life experiences with the art of storytelling to produce powerful stories that free us from the past, and can work as healing salve to others who read our stories.
Writing a memoir is an act of self-preservation, self-reflection, and personal growth. It is healing and transformative, and can lead to self-realization and personal empowerment. It helps us make sense of the past and gives us a more profound sense of self-awareness. This lets us build solid bridges to a future we want for ourselves.
To become more self-aware, we must dive deep into our own histories. The deeper we go, the more transformative the experience of writing our memoir will be.
Meditation is a great companion on the journey into the world of your past. It can help you control your thoughts and emotions as you reflect on your experiences. It calms and sooths you and expands your ability to be lovingly compassionate and accepting of yourself. Being compassionate toward one’s self is essential for a well-lived, happy life.
Meditating increases your understanding of who you are and how you came to be who you are. It also allows you to tap into your creative imagination and helps you focus and concentrate to turn away from excess inner chatter to center on what most needs your attention.
In this workshop, designed as an introduction to memoir writing, meditation is an important partner to writing as we study storytelling craft and memoir writing technique.
The focus is on framing real life to write captivating stories that illuminate the universal truths in the human experience. We discuss the types of themes, life events, developmental periods, etcetera, most conducive to writing powerful memoirs that others will want to read.
We learn to blend factual accuracy with fictional storytelling elements such as character presentation, dialog, scene setting, and plot design to make our stories compelling.
Designing the container for your memoir is also part of the workshop’s content, as well as deciding what to reveal.
This workshop is right for individuals who want to begin writing a memoir, and also for those who may have already started a memoir and would like support, or further instruction, and a writing community.
This in-person workshop is limited to five participants.
Workshop instruction is in English.
For more information and to register, visit my website:
Trainer Description:
I’m Paulette Boudreaux, a published author with many years of experience as a meditator, writing professor, and meditation facilitator.
At a very young age I came to understand that using words well is empowering—especially written words because their power is lasting. My understanding of the profound and magical power of meditation came later in life. I spent far too many years being batted around on the wings of my emotions and fears. When in my forties I discovered and committed myself to a daily meditation practice, my emotions became my friends and teachers instead of my adversaries.
Meditation, I believe, is a key to unlock the joy that lives in each of us. It gives our true selves back to us.
As we live and move about in the world, we are the sum total of the gifts we were born with and the experiences we’ve collected in our years on the planet. Meditation helps us to peel back the layers that have been folded over our true selves by the triumphs and losses on our journey. With meditation, we learn to face and embrace ourselves. We then get to choose how we express, what we express, and when we express the various wonderous facets of ourselves.
Personal writing allows us to pour out what is inside us, examine what we find, then organize it into something meaningful and useful as we go forward. As a writer I’ve experienced this myself. As a teacher, I’ve watched others go through this process of growth.
Joining Meditation and Writing creates a powerful force for personal growth, so I designed a memoir writing workshop that blends these two activities. I look forward to helping others on their journey.
Mail and telephone:
Email: writingspecialist54@gmail.com
Phone: +31 6 48 57 95 55
Website:
www.thewritingspecialist.nl