Writing into Your Body: The Practice of Naming

WRITING INTO YOUR BODY Peer-support/Self Therapy Writing Class Class 1: The Practice of Naming In mythology, the practice of naming is a sacred act: if you name something, you have power over it. (Remember Rumpelstiltskin?)

In this class, we will be exploring the territory of our own Name; using examples from classic literature to hold up a lantern into our psyches. We will practice listening for, and speaking our own names in the face of forces who want to make us forget.

We will be wandering the inner world of the body/soul, like an explorer entering new territory, where we will have the opportunity to start to build a more resilient and empathetic relationship to ourselves, our inner worlds, and our needs, desires, and hungers. We'll gather here, with torches and mirrors and masks for one another -- using paper and pen as a ritual theater. Prepare to explore the realms inside your psyche and be amazed at what you find there.

About the guest facilitator: MariJean (MJ) Wegert is a writer, inner territory tracker, and practitioner of animist poetics who strives to bring healing tools to the accessible realm of the person, bridging inner and outer worlds through the practice of writing.

Curater of good (quest)ions, and apprenticed to listening, MariJean's practices emerge around embodied, immanent shadow work, exploring the (often taboo) realms of grief, shame, and desire. She has studied and practiced Internal Family Systems (parts work) systemetized for the Western world by psychologist Dick Schwartz, and has studied under psychologist and collective shadow worker David Bedrick, reiki master Annie Wiesbrod, applied theater practitioner Laura Geiger, and renowned dancer in the troubled spaces, Bayo Akomolafe.

Find more of her writing at The Poetics of Place: https://marijeanelizabeth.substack.com/ and on Instagram @regressada.

BRING A NOTEBOOK, PEN OR PENCIL