Story Spinning: Harvesting Your Experience and Harnessing Its Power (starting at $79)
Our stories define us. As writers, they are grist for our mill. They affect our well-being, our relationships, our present and our future.They are vehicles of energy, vessels of possibility. They contain infinite potential and we can harness great light and great power from the experiences of our lives.
Our bodies are waiting to be tapped for their wisdom, gained from every ordeal we have suffered or encountered. Every catastrophe has stripped us of something and given us something. The nakedness, we know. The gifts are yet to be unearthed. In this circle of women, we will revisit our threshold experiences, our decisive moments and pivotal events and re-view them through a lens of emotional clarity and compassion.
We will experience the deep listening of others as we share our stories, hear the narrative arc, define the crisis and revisit the resolution. We will see our role in co-creating the event and the narrative, and we will reconsider the telling from a place of power.
Each week is 90 minutes and includes story-telling, writing, and sharing our work.
“Our stories contain the answers to each others’ questions. What I cannot find in searching through the riches and rubble of my own life may become apparent to me in the witnessing of yours. It’s through our stories that we begin to name ourselves, to say who we are under all the social trappings, and to emerge from those trappings like a butterfly from a crysalis. We are midwives, in a way, to each other’s rebirth.”
—Jan Phillips, from A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Jan Phillips i is the author of twelve award-winning books, has taught in over 25 countries, and has published work in the New York Times, Ms., Newsday, People, Parade Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, New Age Journal, National Catholic Reporter, Sun Magazine, and Utne Reader. She has performed with Pete Seeger, presented with Jane Goodall, sung to Gladys Knight, and worked for Mother Teresa.
Jan teaches throughout the United States and Canada, facilitating retreats on evolutionary faith and prophetic action. Her quest has taken her into and out of a religious community, across the country on a Honda motorcycle, and around the world on a one woman peace pilgrimage. She is the author of Stop Seeking, Start Finding, Still On Fire—Field Notes from a Queer Mystic, No Ordinary Time, Creativity Unzipped, The Art of Original Thinking, Divining the Body, Marry Your Muse, God is at Eye Level, Making Peace, Born Gay, A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind, ans Finding The On-Ramp to Your Spiritual Path. Jan sends out her Bulletins of Immortality weekly and a monthly Museletter to her mailing list. You can subscribe on her website. www.janphillips.com
