Self-Discoveries with a Pen Series

Deepen your understanding of a specific time in your life.

EXPLORE any period of your past

FIND a clearer, fuller, more meaningful story  

OFFERING

This is a program for unearthing lessons and wisdom embedded in a past experience of your choice. You will accomplish this by applying the research tools my students used in the thesis classes I taught at the Psychology Department, York University.

During the 6 workshops that make up this program, you will be introduced to research tools for evoking, analyzing and synthesizing your recollections. In the intervals between workshops you will apply these tools, devoting a few hours a week for this task.

Through these assignments your old story will be pulled apart, some new memories will surface, underlying themes will be revealed, and a new format will emerge. 

You will conclude this adventure by writing a clearer, fuller and more meaningful story of that time.

THIS PROGRAM IS 

• NOT about how to write

• NOT about sharing your life story

• NOT about getting psychotherapy

THIS PROGRAM 

• IS about using research tools for personal inquiry

• IS about using your objective capacity to examine subjective experiences

• IS about owning your life lessons

FORMAT

6 workshops over 12 weeks

1.5-2 hrs per workshop

Live and interactive via video conferencing

2,3 weeks between sessions for your own research 


OPTIONS

Recorded sessions will be available for review

A brief Q&A session between workshops will be offered if requested by 3 or more participants


PHASES

Phase 1: Creating a framework for the research process & generating recollection data

Phase 2: Discovery of metaphors

Phase 3: Discovery of themes

Phase 4: Discovery of order within the themes

Phase 5: Writing up your reexamined story

Conclusion: Acknowledging and celebrating your achievements

  • "When you drink water, remember where the mountain spring is."

    Chinese Proverb

  • "Experience is the mother of wisdom."

    German Proverb

  • "The past disappears when its lessons are fully absorbed."

    anonymous

  • "Have you harvested all the pearls hidden in your past?"

    anonymous

  • "We don’t know what we know."

    Milton H. Erickson

  • "Hindsight opens the door to foresight."

    anonymous

  • "Standing firmly at the present, I looked at the past fully in the face, and it lost its hold over me."

    anonymous

Dates

Workshops are scheduled on either Tuesdays or Thursdays. 6:30 EST. Alternate days and times are available upon request for groups of 6 or more.

Cost

$80 per workshop

Prior to first session, pay for one workshop

Prior to second session, pay for five workshops

Prior to the sixth session, pay for four workshops

Full commitment required after first session.

Group Discount

10% off for groups of 3 - 4, 15% off for groups of 5 - 6

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