les samedis de 11:00 suis. – 1:00 après-midi. EST

Peut 11, 18, 25 / Juin 1, 8, 15

À propos du cours

The world needs to hear your Dharma: your own spiritual journey, 

expressed with truth, humility, and grace.

Dans cet atelier de six semaines, nous apprendrons à partager nos chemins spirituels par écrit: comment écrire avec authenticité et vulnérabilité, comment dire ce que nous voulons dire, et comment soutenir les autres et être soutenu dans l'acte de création.

Each session will explore another facet of spiritual writing. We will be writing together, examining the works of renowned writers who write about or lace spirituality through their stories, their essays, their poems. We will hear from contemporary artists writing from a spiritual perspective, and have the opportunity to ask them questions and explore our writing with them.

en outre, we will have weekly time to write together for the duration of the course. Each weekly writing session will start with brief meditation practice, a quote, and an optional prompt.

We will discuss and explore how we can connect with the mind of meditation and our own, essential creative force. This course is a safe and supportive space to take risks with our writing, and to find a warm community of fellow writers.

Session List

Live sessions will explore these topics and themes:

• The practice of meditation as a partner to the writer’s path
• Writing aspirations
• Exploring a daily writing process
• Group writing exercises
• Balancing “Show” and “Tell” in nonfiction writing
• The relationship between connecting with the mind of meditation and writing
• Finding inspiration, and some of the pitfalls of spiritual writing
• Raconter des histoires
• Group workshopping of our personal writing

Peut 11: Writing with Sacred Attention (with Nadia Colburn)

• How to come into a greater state of intuition and openness to receive the writing that wants to come through us.
• Short meditation and very gentle movement to integrate more fully the analytical and intuitive mind.
• Working with and writing into blocks as they present themselves in the body.
• How writing itself can be a site of contemplative and sacred experience.

Peut 18: Humility and Authenticity (with Frederick Meyer)

• Pratique de méditation guidée.
• Exploring humility and authenticity in Dharma writing.
• Embodied practice for creative blocks or barriers.
• Group writing exercise.

Peut 25: Balancing Show and Tell in Nonfiction Writing (with Brad Wetzler)

• How to blend sharing personal experience with offering learning and takeaways.
• Writing vulnerable and authentic nonfiction.
• How to write about personal healing, growth, and transformation.

Juin 1: Writing as Offering (with Anjie Cho)

• Writing even though you never thought you’d be a « Writer, » or even considered yourself a « bad » writer.
• Weaving your story and voice into nonfiction writing that teaches, guides, and empowers the reader.
• Practical advice on book writing, publishing, and grassroots marketing strategies, and how writing can be an essential part of one’s offering to the world.

Juin 8: Dharma Journaling (with Frederick Meyer)

• How embodied, holistic journaling can be spiritual practice and support us on our paths.
• How to integrate Dharma journaling practice throughout daily life.
• Advice for journaling to generate spiritual writing you will share.

Juin 15: Inquiry as the Gateway to Insight: Cultivating the Creative (avec Judith Simmer-Brown)

• Digging deep into the writing process.
• Interrogating our experience: finding our narratives in the present, with new discoveries to be made.
• Opening to ambiguity on our spiritual journeys: going beyond the tendency to think we know what our journeys mean, and opening to new possibilities as we explore.

À propos des enseignants

Frédéric Meyer is a lifelong Shambhala practitioner. He first connected with Shambhala as a participant at Sun Camp, and has followed the Shambhala path through Rigden Abhisheka. Frederick helps lead the Shambhala.org community blog, and is the Director of Writers.com. Il vit à la Nouvelle-Orléans avec sa femme, Claire, leur fille, Anne, and their dogs, Lucy and Beignet.

Nadia Colburn holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. She is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher and an Order of Interbeing aspirant in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Tradition.

Her poems and creative nonfiction have been widely published in more than seventy national publications including Le new yorker, American Poetry Review, Spirituality & Santé, Le rugissement du lion, Truthout, Slate.com, American Scholar, Grist.org, Literary Imagination, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Oui! Magazine, Yale Review, Southwest Review, Boston Globe Magazine, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, LA Review of Books, Volt, Columbia: A Journal, elephant journal, Appalachia, Tiny Buddha, and many other places.

Nadia is passionate about helping students and clients uncover their full stories and unlock the power of their creative voice. Learn more at her website https://nadiacolburn.com/

Brad Wetzler is the author of the new memoir Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing, published by Hachette Go in 2023. A longtime magazine journalist, he has written forLe New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, GQ, National géographique, Outside, etTravel + Leisure, entre autres. He is a book editor, memoir and nonfiction writing coach, and yoga teacher. Brad holds a masters’ degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Anjie Cho is a feng shui educator, licensed practicing architect, and teacher of meditation and dharma arts. She’s the author of three books: Espaces holistiques, Maisons conscientes, and forthcoming Mindful Living. 

en outre, Anjie is a long time student of ikebana, chanoyu, and a Shambhala Art teacher. She is the owner of Anjie Cho Architect PLLC, co-founder ofÉcole Feng Shui de conception consciente, and co-host of theHolistic Spaces Podcast. Apprenez-en davantage sur Anjie sur anjiecho.com, and follow her on Instagram @anjiecho.

Judith Simmer-Brown, Doctorat., Professeur émérite d'études contemplatives et religieuses émérites à l'Université Naropa, où ellea enseigné pour plus 40 années. Simmer-Brown est formateur en compassion pour la Compassion Initiative à Naropa. Elle est l'auteur deLe souffle chaud de Dakini: Le principe féminin dans le bouddhisme tibétain (Shambhala) et éditeur, avec Fran Grace, deLa méditation et la salle de classe: Pédagogie contemplative pour les études religieuses (SOLEIL). Pour Shambhala, elle enseigne les niveaux de formation Shambhala, Thèmes Mahayana et Vajrayana, avec un amour particulier pour White Tara, principe féminin, travailler avec les émotions, compassion et engagement social.