Telling Your Story Workshop
"Stories are who we are,they are inside
of us,the secret self that we are."
-Linda Joy Myers
Telling Your Story
A Workshop of
Creative Self Discovery
This workshop is an opportunity to explore your
life story through art, writing, and dialogue.
Workshop Format
In this workshop the participants will create an art piece that tells their life story. Through writing, dialogue and art you will re-count your life script and by doing so draw a larger sense of yourself.
Each Weekly Session is Inclusive of the following:
* Opening & Closing Circles for each evening
* Open Art Studio time
* Relaxation & guided imagery
Workshops are available in four formats:
*8 to 10 week workshop
*One day introduction and beginning of the process
*A two day weekend
*One month of Saturdays from 9am to 4pm
Art Project Choices
Workshop facilitator will assist with descriptions and steps for suggested art projects. Please note that different workshop formats will determine the types of art projects that can be accomplished.
Autobiographical Quilts
Personal Totem Pole
Collage Time Line
Painting Series
Story Boxes
Individual Choice
Note: The option to exhibit completed art pieces at the end
of the workshop will be offered to the group.
Story Telling:
Underlying Concepts
"The voyage of discovery lies not
in finding new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
This autobiographical story telling workshop is a process that allows you to take time to build a new relationship with your life. It is an opportunity to examine your life from different perspectives and to discover how to consciously create your life rather than allowing life to keep on truckin’ without you being fully present at the helm.
During this workshop you will explore your past and open the door to getting to know yourself and your soul more intimately. Your soul is the deeper part of yourself that is connected to a larger source. It is your authentic self.
The process of creating your autobiographical story through art will allow you to question how your perceptions of the past have built the stories you tell yourself today. It is the act of revisiting these stories that allows you to shift them and your current perspectives to create a different relationship with your past, present, and future. This process can potentially free you from limiting beliefs and life scripts that keep you from expressing your authentic self.
Richard Bach, author of Running From Safety, reflects upon the story of his life. He looks back through his memories and builds a new relationship with himself by re-examining them. During this process, Bach gains new perspectives through the process of reclaiming and retelling his story. It is this concept that we will address during this workshop.
"The individual must find their own myth
that has to do with the conduct of his life."
-Joseph Campbell
-Joseph Campbell
Art:
Underlying Concepts
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is
the oyster’s autobiography."
-Federico Fellini
the oyster’s autobiography."
-Federico Fellini
Creating art is a unique process for each individual. This process offers opportunities for self determination and self directed choices as you move through the landscape of your past. This workshop allows you to find and apply your own themes and mediums to represent the substance of your autobiographical story. Participating in this workshop’s art process leads one into calm waters by providing introspection and connection to your inner self. Telling your story through art will also provide an avenue for you to explore your own internal, personal symbols.
Art is form without language and has the potential to loosen the restrictions you might impose upon yourself as you move through memories and belief systems in the creating of your autobiographical art piece. It is through art that memory, emotion, and possibility can be brought out and will speak to you of your inner world and imagery. This process allows you to be carried to a place of new awareness, self understanding, and transformation. The process of creating your story through art can also change a life script and set a new course and purpose in your life.
Your Story is waiting, suspended, ready to be told.
For more information on this workshop call Gwendolyn Natusch at 508-696-1927 or write to PO Box 713 Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.
3 Comments:
If I lived closer I would come! I wish you all the best.
Oh this is too good!
Hi Gwendolyn,
Brand new blogger stumbled across you as i looked for advice on post reunion....my 5 year journey is coming to a screeching halt. I am seeking therapy, but am amazed because I live on Cape, and spent three glorious summers on Marthas Vineyard. My story is definely a marketable book and wouuld love some advice...are you free to speak further? Thanks, Tricia
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