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Writing the Mind Alive - A Women's Retreat facilitated by Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D.
Proprioceptive Writing as a Path for Personal Exploration
Facilitated by Linda Trichter Metcalf, PhD
April 15 - 17, 2005

  Women's Retreat Description - Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D.
Writing the Mind Alive:
Proprioceptive Writing as a Path for Personal Exploration

Proprioceptive Writing (PW) is a simple but powerfully effective method for exploring the psyche through writing that anyone can learn. Widely recognized as an adjunct to the healing arts and as a form of meditation, PW is practiced to music in twenty-minute sessions, under stress-free conditions, alone or in groups.

Through a process called "Inner Hearing," PW teaches you to listen to your thoughts with empathy and curiosity and reflect on them in writing. Practiced regularly, PW increases awareness, confidence, and self-trust; improves memory; and promotes creativity.

PW is also valuable to people who wish to write and for writers facing impediments to their work. It returns you to the pleasures of pure process, reminding you why you wanted to write to begin with. Through practice you get personal with your subject matter. Over time you collect a rich storehouse of raw material that you can draw on for your writing projects. 

Taught by the creator of PW, this workshop will help you open to yourself, explore your experience, release your voice, and live a more expressive life.
“PW helped me forge the connections between my intellect, my heart, and my pen that eventually became Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, a work that I couldn’t have dreamed possible when I started Proprioceptive Writing.” ~ Dr. Christiane Northrup
Required reading: Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice (Ballantine, 2002), Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon.
Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D.

About the Retreat Facilitator - Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D.
Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D.

Linda, author and educator, has been hailed as "an original thinker in the field of creativity." A native New Yorker, she graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan and the City College of New York, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in literature from New York University. In the mid-1970's, Linda created the practice now known as Proprioceptive Writing® (PW), while a professor at Pratt Institute, where she was regarded as an inspiring and innovative teacher. Since then she has taught PW at such varied institutions as the New School University, Esalen Institute, Omega, and the New York Open Center. 

In 1978, she and her partner, Tobin Simon, moved to Maine, where, in l982, they founded the PW Center, and she began to teach PW as a method of therapy. In 1996 she and Toby moved the center to New York City. In the new expanded PW Center, she teaches group and online classes in PW; conducts PW therapy; and is a consultant to writers and other artists. She is the author (with Tobin Simon) of Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice, Ballantine Books, 2002. 

Find more information on Linda's work at www.proprioceptivewriting.com.

Women's Retreat Costs and Fees - Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D.
The fee for this retreat is $575.
Fee includes facilitated retreat, accommodations and all meals from dinner Friday evening through 3:00 on Sunday afternoon.
 
 
 

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