An 8-week series of PW sessions with Linda T Metcalf in Berkeley, CA
Saturdays, October 12th – December 14th, 2-5 PM
(Sessions not held 10/26 or 11/30)
Most of us have lived through love, loss, and grief without the time (or tools) to reflect on our experience. Proprioceptive Writing (PW) is a writing meditation on inner thought & feeling that enables deep reflection. Practiced to music in 20-minute sessions, alone or in groups, PW is a potent tool that can be used for therapeutic and creative purposes.
For whoever grieves, or in some other way suffer loss (for example, of a person, pet, or belief), nothing could be more salutary than to hear your own inner thoughts in the presence of others hearing theirs.
This experience of being alone with yourself in the presence of others is achieved through PW. In writing, each person consults herself or himself alone, while others do the same. In our sessions, we may listen to each other’s “Writes,” but we do not offer advice or interfere in any way with the solitary process of the writer. These written explorations of our own thoughts produce a high yield of wisdom, which does not erase grief, but expands the self to include it.
Why It’s Called Proprioceptive Writing:
The mind has the capacity to know itself, just as the body has a way to sense itself. The biological term for the body’s sense of itself—its movement, equilibrium, acceleration—is “proprioception.” Analogously, we call the mind’s sense of itself and its movement Mental Proprioception. Being mental, it is constituted not of specialized sensory neurons but of words and tone and our human birthright to hear ourselves think.
Read More about PW founder, Linda Trichter Metcalf, who teaches this series, here
This series meets at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists,
1606 Bonita Avenue in Berkeley, CA.
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