The fall session of Transform Your Health: Write to Heal will begin on November 7th. This six week course meets at Duke Integrative Medicine meeting on Wednesday evenings from 6:00  - 8:00. The final class will be held on December 12.

This workshop is designed to help you discover ways to manage stressful events and upheavals in your life through writing. The act of writing engages internal healing resources that affect mental and physical health. Expressive writing has the power to help you reduce heart rate and blood pressure, minimize stress, strengthen the immune system, and improve your self-esteem.

Transform Your Health:  Write to Heal is a transformative six-week workshop that helps you access your inner healing voice. You do not need to have writing experience or aspirations in order to participate. The instructor will lead you through a progression of restorative writing exercises. The workshop employs different modes of writing that help you to heal in unique ways, including:
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• Expressive writing, which removes obstacles and moves you beyond a personal, private emotional upheaval or crisis.
• Transactional writing, which allows you to take care of unfinished business and conveys your feelings, expectations, and intentions for yourself and others, in gratitude, compassion, forgiveness and loving kindness.
• Poetic writing, which uses narrative structure and metaphor to tell your story as you wish to tell it.
• Affirmative writing, which centers your focus on your best qualities and how you would like to express your life in the future.
• Legacy writing, which teaches you to write for others about your values, major life lessons, turning points and epiphanies.
• Mindful writing, which teaches you to write with awareness, attention, acceptance, affection, appreciation, affirmation. 

​Recommended Reading: Expressive Writing: Words that Heal; Wellness and Writing Connections: Writing for Better Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health; Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

Early Bird Discount ends October 22nd.

Last day to register is November 5th.

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This August I'll be returning to 1440 Multiversity to facilitate a weekend retreat centered around evidenced-based expressive writing prompts to help you write your way to self-awareness, healing, and growth.

The class will be held Friday - Sunday, August 3-5, 2018. 

This workshop is perfect for those who are experiencing life changes such as divorce, death of a loved one, new relationships, empty-nest transitions, living with illness, or entering a new career. 

In a supportive coaching environment, you will:

• Engage in expressive writing and neuroplasticity techniques as the foundation for growth and change
• Learn how writing can bring closure to painful life events
• Use writing to create a fresh vision for health, vitality, and joy
• Process emotions and experiences in a way that transforms your psychological and spiritual health.

No previous writing experience is required.

1440 Multiversity is a 75-acre campus amidst beautiful redwood trees that offers a variety of ways to connect with yourself and others. Students can take advantage of the open air, whole & healthy foods, and wellness classes. It offers the perfect blend of vacation, learning, and self reflection. 
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This 2-day workshop is designed for anyone working in the healthcare field — physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, hospice workers, health coaches, and others. This experiential training provides easily adaptable lessons, activities, and guideposts to use with your clients and patients.

The course will be taught May 3-4, 2018 at Duke Integrative Medicine. 

Instructors, John F. Evans and Karen Jooste, will lead you through progressive learning that incorporates Reasons for Writing for Health including... 

• creating vision and setting intentions
• clarifyng values
• stimulating thinking that leads to insights and understanding
• changes in perspective and perception
• facilitating a mindfulness practice
• expressing readiness to change
• building confidence and resilience
• affirming strengths
• Communicating gratitude, empathy and compassion

Early Registration Deadline:  April 13, 2018

Last Day to Register:  April 27, 2018