Some Great Resources

Wow! I love how students always keep me on my toes! Here are some really great online/ FREE articles that I have lately been referring to because of things brought up in class:


"On Keeping a Notebook" by Joan Didion (link)

"The memory of the body" by Thomas Fuchs (link)

"How to Take a Walk in the Woods" by Adam Frank (the art of noticing) (link)

"The Weight of What's Left [Out]" by Andrew David King (erasure) (link)

Creative Evolution: On the Meaning of Life by Henri Bergson (link)

Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz (link)

Time-Stopping, Points of Friction, and Other Narrative Events: an interview with Mary Burger (link)

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (link)

Rob Halperon: on "Somatics" by Thom Donovan (link)

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Journal Prompt: The Art of Noticing

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” ~Anais Nin 

The Beginning Creative Writing course that I teach started yesterday. We talked about this quote, but I’m wondering. What does it mean to you? Write your response in your journal and/or reply here. I would love to read your responses!

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Healing Poetry: The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

 ~ Mary Oliver
from New and Selected Poems,
1992 Beacon Press, Boston, MA

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Meet the MindBody Center's Seminar Leaders!

Top L-R:  Amanda Reavey, Meredith Hammond

Bottom L-R: Leslie Verdi, Donna Duckman

Donna Duckman, M.A., L.P.C., is the Director of the Mindbody Center, a Master Anxiety Treatment Specialist, a psychotherapist, and a seminar leader. She has been on the forefront of holistic health and emotional healing for 30 years.

Meredith Hammond, M.A., N.C.C., is a mother of three boys and a psychotherapist at the Mindbody Center. She specializes in autism spectrum disorders, therapeutic parenting, couples counseling and women’s mental health.

Leslie Verdi, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., has been a therapist for 30 years. She encourages inner exploration and creative expression through workshops which facilitate “knowledge of self” by looking at myths, fairy tales and archetypes. Each workshop includes a creative activity to ground the experience in the left-brain.

Amanda Reavey is a certified Journal to the Self(R) instructor through the Center for Journal Therapy. She specializes in therapeutic journal writing, poetry and sexual assault victim advocacy. Currently, she is a MFA candidate, is working on journal and poetry therapy certifications, and teaches at Colorado Free University.

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Upcoming Class: Journal to the Self starts Feb. 2nd

Discover the writer within you! The Journal to the Self(R) method is a internationally recognized, easy, effective, and empowering model of journal keeping developed right here in Colorado by Kathleen Adams, LPC, PTR, at the Center for Journal Therapy. Use this hands-on journal-writing workshop for personal growth, creative expression, and life enhancement. In class, experience and practice 18 different journal techniques and have an opportunity to share passages with your classmates if you wish. Learning these techniques adds color, perspective, and dimension to your reflective writing. With the help of these journal tools, you can gently but powerfully explore the various aspects of yourself, your life, and your relationships with others. Amanda Reavey is a certified Journal to the Self(R) instructor from the Center for Journal Therapy and an MFA Writing & Poetics candidate at Naropa University.

Code: 1994A
Dates: February 3-24, 2013
Meets: Four Sun., 1-4PM Begins 02/03
Location: Colorado Free University LOWRY: Near 1st & Quebec
Fee: $146 You could save $12.00 on this course by becoming a member of CFU Membership
Notes: $10 materials fee payable in class for workbook
Register: Call CFU at(303) 399-0093

You may register by phone with a Visa, MasterCard or Discover. Please have the following information ready when you call:

• Course number or class title and beginning date 
• Name and address 
• Credit card number and expiration date  

or register online here.

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