Mindful Writing:
Spelling Out Transformation and Wholeness

Thursday, July 06, 2023, 9:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT

$74.99 Dr. Marianela Medrano, PhD

Participants will write, reflect, meditate and engage in discussions about what it means to free ourselves from fragmentation and find ourselves whole again. Fragmentation of the self has unintended consequences. Often, the effects are depression, anxiety, and blocked creativity. At the root of this is fear. Fear comes from attachment to particular outcomes.

This four-hour course is informed by the Buddhist way of living and seeing the world. We’ll focus on the four noble truths: 1) There is suffering in life. 2) The cause of suffering is craving. 3) There is an end to suffering when we stop craving. 4) There is a path that leads away from craving and suffering. We’ll also discuss the four “immeasurables" : Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity.

We will examine how to move away from debilitating language and illness metaphors and into new ways of telling our story, discerning what we want to integrate from our big history; with this, we will look back into ancestral wisdom as a restorative and healing practice.

This course is designed for individuals who are curious about how to integrate the multiple parts of life into a cohesive wholeness. Practitioners will learn practices that help people live with integrity and excellence, become more alive and creative, learn mindful movement and more. This class is for individuals interested in creating more psychological flexibility and more emotional language fluidity, so they can help people embrace life with curiosity, detachment and depth.

About the Presenter

Dr. Marianela Medrano was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in psychology. Her literary work has appeared in anthologies and magazines in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Her poetry has been translated into Italian and French. She is the founder of Palabra Counseling & Training Center, LLC.

This workshop Offers 4 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Learning Objectives:

Explain how mindfulness is an adjunct to writing which informs and can positively transform daily living.

Describe the utilitarian use of poetry in the therapeutic context.

Articulate the connection between The Four Noble Truths, the four Inmmesurables and therapeutic writing.

Analyze how to move away from debilitating language and illness metaphors and into new ways of telling the personal story.

Discern between the big history and the personal story and how they informed each other.

Utilize resources they can apply with themselves and those they served, including a variety of mindfulness practices and a selection of poems appropriate for therapeutic purposes.

Learning Objectives:

Explain how mindfulness is an adjunct to writing which informs and can positively transform daily living.

Describe the utilitarian use of poetry in the therapeutic context.

Articulate the connection between The Four Noble Truths, the four Inmmesurables and therapeutic writing.

Analyze how to move away from debilitating language and illness metaphors and into new ways of telling the personal story.

Discern between the big history and the personal story and how they informed each other.

Utilize resources they can apply with themselves and those they served, including a variety of mindfulness practices and a selection of poems appropriate for therapeutic purposes.

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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