The Way of StoryWriting Workshops
THE WAY OF STORY with Catherine Ann Jones
“We’ve become lopsided living only in our heads. Writing, in order to serve the soul, must integrate outer craft with the inner world of intuition and feeling.” – Catherine Ann Jones, NY TIMES
The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing offers an integrative approach to writing narrative, combining solid craft with experiential inner discovery. Craft alone is not enough. No other writing workshop offers the solid craft to guarantee a good story along with the intangible inner dimensions of writing.
- For writers of all levels & all narrative forms including plays, screenplays, stories, novels, non-fiction including memoir
“At last, a working, professional writer who teaches writing!” – Joe S., San Francisco
“Your structure gave my story wings. I’ve never been so clear on what I want to write.” – Linda L, Ann Arbor, MI “A spiritual experience as well as practical.” – Gard J., Nevada
HEAL YOUR SELF WITH WRITING
Heal Your Self with Writing is an elixir for the soul.
– Psychology Today
Our lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we remember them. You are invited to come aboard this inner adventure that offers a step by step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling. Telling stories about our past through focused journaling can help change our perspectives to enable healing and empowerment. In this way, we are able to make meaning out of memory and put the past where it belongs – behind us. Healing and transformation are only possible through changing one’s perspective from within. In this way, global healing takes place one individual, one tribe, at a time.
There is a Native American parable about a grandfather who says, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” When asked which wolf will win the fight in his heart, the old man replies, “The one I feed.” How do we learn to “feed” the stories that heal?
What story are you living? How do you choose to remember your story?
Join award-winning writer and global teacher Catherine Ann Jones in this course. (No writing experience is necessary.)
Catherine Ann Jones, M.A. in depth psychology, is an award-winning playwright (Calamity Jane, On the Edge, The Women of Cedar Creek) and screenwriter (The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards, Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), Touched by an Angel series). A Fulbright Scholar to India studying shamanism, over thirty years teaching experience in New York (The New School University) and Los Angeles (U.S.C.), writing consultant, author of The Way of Story, Heal Your Self with Writing (Nautilus Book Award), Freud’s Oracle, and What Story Are You Living? and workshops both here and abroad. www.wayofstory.com
FINDING YOUR VOICE IN MEMOIR
with award-winning author Catherine Ann Jones
How do I know about the world?
By what is within me. –Lao Tzu
In Remembrances of Things Past, French writer Marcel Proust conquered time in autobiography by exploring the self. He invented nothing, but altered everything. He did this by finding his own unique voice. We are our past. The way you discover other people’s stories is how we access our own. Learn tips on how to research and structure your life story, write three-dimensional characters, find the thematic thru-line, and discover your unique subjective voice. By opening ourselves and sharing our stories, we allow that connection so vital to living.
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