'3 Door Writing'
- a multiconscious non-linear writing technique. This is my own technique, developed over decades of working with my clients' imaginations and body-focus as well as my own.
This work is of benefit to anyone interested in healing the whole being and supporting imaginative transformation. It can also be used to re-access a deep authentic creativity; it can be a way through creative block for writers, musicians, artists in finding a different 'way in' to the imagination, and escape from the inner critic.It also attracts the spiritual seeker, offering a fusion of the 'holy place' of the body with the graced inspiration of spirit. Above all it is for anyone interested in the wisdom that can arise from the depths of psyche and soma.
3 Door Writing ; an exercise in SomaLogos
'Soma'= of the body-felt sense.
'Logos'= expression/the word/contact with the unifying principle of the cosmos.
So much of our everyday consciousness is over-layed with the words in our mind, or our 'head'. Many of these words have been conditioned into us from our personal and cultural influences. Many of these influences have created a discourse that is predominantly discursive, comparative, judging, desciphering, objectifying, justifying, analysing, criticising. These qualities of cultural discourse may have their uses, but when internalised and habitual, they can have a negative restricting impact on our thought-patterns and feelings, on how we see ourselves, others and the world.
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'3 Door Writing' is a unique writing process that counterbalances these habits by writing from a place of more freedom, a body-felt place; the 'somatic psyche'. This is not a creative writing exercise, though it can be applied to creative writimng; it is a specific technique that reaches through to different layers. It side-steps the rational mind to acces a wisdom deep within, facsilitating emotional, psychological and spiritual growth. We find new words in new ways; we play with them , tune in to images, senses. We distill, filter, and find ourselves holding a precious selection of words that are a distilled tailor-made essence of what is transforming in us at any moment in time.
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This is an encouragement of a more deeply felt relationship with word-as-healer, part of our healing self, but not as story-teller. Rather we are released from linear thought into a deeply felt right here and right now. The process has an inbuilt privacy in order to be able to sink into it and feel uncensored. There is no sharing of our actual writing.
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How do I try this?
These are the alternatives I offer:
1) One off sessions of an hour and a half or two hours of guided writing or a combination of body- work and writing (in-person or via Zoom).
2) A series of sessions to provide an oppotunity for the process to become a habit.
3) A one-day group workshop or series of workshops.
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