Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D.

Healing Memoir and Spiritual Autobiography LIVE Workshop with Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D.

Time: 10am-1pm PDT
6 Sessions beginning March 27 through June 5, 2010. 

Class Schedule:  March 27th, April 17th, April 24th, May 8th, May 22nd and June 5th.

Please note, participants can opt to begin this course on April 17th!  Email info@namw.org for more information.

Do you live in Marin, the East Bay or San Francisco? Take advantage of this unique opportunity to work in person with with Linda Joy Myers within a course structure that is highly customizable based on your writing needs.   This course has been at capacity for over 2 years, but due to relocation of two participants, there are currently openings!  Pricing for this workshop is at a fraction of the cost of Linda Joy’s private coaching sessions and will provide you with the opportunity to receive safe and confidential feedback from a small group of writers.  Contact info@namw.org if you are interested in learning more.  This class is limited to 7 participants and only two spaces remain!

As a group, we write about the important moments in our lives–childhood memories, careers, love and family, and spiritual quests. Some writers use poetry and prose to capture memories and to explore the richness of life. We write about important turning points–the lighter, humorous moments along with the dark nights of the soul. There is laughter and a few tears, and most of all the witnessing of our stories, an important part of transformational writing. People of every age learn from each other’s experiences and inspires each other to keep writing insightful and thoughtful true stories. You will learn how to choose your scenes, how to use fictional tools, and ways to keep the inner critic at bay. We write during class, and share our work in a supportive atmosphere.

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Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. ~Muriel Rukeyser

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. ~Pablo Picasso

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
–Wendell Berry