Join me this December at 1440 Multiversity for an immersive weekend including daily wellness offerings, nourishing meals, and holistic amenities.

This is a special program with carefully chosen, evidenced-based writing prompts, you bring closure to the challenges of the old year and begin the new one with a fresh vision for health, vitality, and your best possible life.

Through this writing retreat, you will learn seven types of writing: mindful, healing, expressive, transactional, poetic, affirmative, and legacy writing as you honor the experiences of the past year and transition mindfully into the New Year. Writing can be a transformative tool for anyone who wants to direct awareness inward and open up to greater self-awareness, growth, and healing.

As you honor the experiences of the past year and transition mindfully into the New Year, you will:

• Write to stimulate thinking that leads to insights and understanding
• Create your vision of vibrant wellness
• Clarify values that inform your intentions
• Identify and remove obstacles to build confidence and resilience
• Open to new perspectives in ways that lead to more joy and optimism.

Enjoy this opportunity to ask yourself deep questions about who you are, what you value, and how you want to show up in the world. You will take home new, supportive, and revealing practices to connect to your inner dialogue at any time and to flourish no matter what life brings your way.

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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