An IN-PERSON Memoir Workshop
Saturday, August 26th
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Awaken the integrative power of your own story by discovering an innate pattern that transforms our lives, keeps our focus on the wholeness of all things, and keeps humanity on its evolutionary trajectory. We live in a time when unitive narratives are needed to restore the balance and harmony of the whole. This begins with recognizing the wonder of our own story. This workshop is about how knowing and telling our own deep, inner story connects us all as one human family. It is about the unifying power of a pattern within us designed to guide our evolving consciousness.
This workshop focuses on an archetypal pattern of transformation that reshapes and redirects our lives toward fulfilling our inner potential. It decodes and personalizes a pattern hidden within the structure of story itself. Join award-winning author Robert Atkinson in drawing upon the wisdom and guidance of an ageless pattern found within mythology, mysticism, rites of passage, and psychology that unifies humanity in a common quest. This workshop includes contemplation, reflection, meditation, dialogue, and guided writing exercises as pathways for the creative process leading to a deeper and more meaningful relationship with our own story and the story we share with all others.
Explore how a universal pattern of transformation connects us with the wholeness of the entire creation, by:
• Understanding a new story of our evolving consciousness
• Becoming familiar with a blueprint for living into wholeness
• Finding the meaning within three foundational principles of our time: evolution, consciousness, and wholeness
• Identifying and integrating the three primary archetypes of the pattern that connects the apparent randomness of the events in our lives
• Writing your story of wholeness in three parts: Call to Wholeness, Path of Purification, and Return to Wholeness
• Recognizing how the individual and collective levels are always intertwined and interconnected
It is time to come together again through unitive narratives, to share our own stories of living into wholeness. As we do, we’ll connect the human family, one story at a time. Nothing may be more vital right now than a healing vision that guides us toward wholeness. This workshop is drawn from the presenter’s book, A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting the Human Family (2022).
+ PLEASE NOTE This workshop will occur IN-PERSON at USM. The week of the workshop, attendees will be emailed the exact location of the class as well as parking info.
Robert Atkinson, PhD, award-winning author, educator, and developmental psychologist, is author of A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting the Human Family (2022), co-editor of the 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award winner Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future, and author of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness. He is also the author or co-editor of eight other books including, Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019), Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story (2012), and The Gift of Stories (1995). He is professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, personal mythmaking and soul-making, director of StoryCommons, founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders. www.robertatkinson.net
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QUESTIONS
For any questions regarding this workshop, please contact Meghan Sterling at programs@mainewriters.org.
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$110 Members / $150 Nonmembers
SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one full scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Contact Meghan at programs@mainewriters.org to see if the scholarship is still available. Application Due on July 20th at 9:00 a.m.
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