Shifting Ground

There is a certain static in the mind that can often blur your vision of yourself, the world, the reality of what blessings you are gifted with. Writing can help clear the path to seeing. There is an eternal fault line on which our hearts walk. The ground is constantly shifting and it is our perpetual endeavor to find our footing, to maintain a sort of balance. When there is so much fighting for attention in your mind, when you are aching to capture a true depth of your spirit on the page, how do you cut to the chase and get there? There. To truth and to what you really want to say even when you don't always know exactly what that is?

It happens there - the clearing - when you have put it down in ink on the page, when you have left the room and gone on to "reality", when you have figured once and for all that you are just going to be stuck here forever. You have planted a seed in your mind and watered it there with the black ink from your pen. And now you must let time bring forth a sprout. It happens while you are going about your business.

In this workshop, I will guide you through a myriad of playful and introspective exercises that will get the ink flowing freely on the pages of your journal so that you can draw out, word by word, a sort of guide to carry with you while navigation your emotional shifting ground. Both lighthearted and excavational, the questions you will learn to ask (and find your own answers for) will remain a valuable tool in being able to dance with the seismic activity that is a life lived consciously.

Supply List

• Journal
• Pens or favorite writing utensils
• One small object or image that represents you
• A written note - one to two sentences MAX - that states a current area of emotional instability for you...or at least an area in your life where you would like to find a more solid footing. Use these phrases to start your sentences:
  "I would like to find a solid footing in..."
  "I have been having trouble feeling balanced in..."
  "I feel shaken by..."
  
  (Examples: "I would like to find a solid footing in my relationship with my sister" or "It have been having trouble feeling balanced in managing my weight" or "I feel shaken by the uncertainty of knowing what I’m supposed to do with my talents.")
  
  Feel free to bring a few of these, written on individual pieces of scrap paper, if you are having trouble choosing. We’ll narrow the focus down in class.