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In virtual spaces, how do we bring more of ourselves to both our sharing and our listening? With online meetings now part of the “new normal,” what are some ways that we can build deep connections, create brave and safe spaces, and grow by listening expansively to what is happening in each moment?
Take stock of where you are now and explore your vision for the future using mixed media visual art and writing in a creative notebook practice.
Whether you are new to personal writing and art or have an established practice that is ready for a refresh, this online class will offer you inspiration and specific prompts to deepen your understanding of yourself through this creative art form.
Grief Pages: Moving Through Change & Loss with a Creative Notebook Practice - a 6-week online course with live ZOOM sessions starting January 12, 2022. Facilitated by Dr. Lisa Chu. Hosted by Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN). 20% off tuition through December 31, 2021.
Join us as we create time, space, and a practice to explore our connections with our mothers and ourselves.
Join us for one day or all three days, where we will engage in a short timed writing practice that you can develop and continue on your own.
All feelings, all types of relationships with mothers, living or dead, all levels of complexity are welcome.
Moving Through Change and Loss with a Creative Notebook Practice: 4-week online class
An evening of poetry, storytelling, and transformative language arts, hosted by Transformative Language Arts Network.
Start 2020 with a burst of creative energy!
One-day writing workshop with Charlie Varon, writer/director/performer, and Lisa Chu, multidisciplinary artist/coach, at The Marsh in San Francisco.
Open to writers of all levels who want to stretch and surprise themselves.
Enroll in Hear Your Heart Speak: Embodied Storytelling for Wellness at Stanford University Redwood City campus.
In this 6-week class, you will engage in playful, creative, interactive exercises using your whole body, mind, and soul in vocal sound, movement, imagination, and listening, all in a supportive environment. At the end of the course, you will be able to engage in multiple modes of expression such as speaking, movement, sound, and gesture in telling stories of personal significance.
You will also learn ways of witnessing and supporting others in a creative process, learn specific practices for engaging in playful creative expression, and personally experience the energy, resilience, and healthy transformation that can come through storytelling.
Transformative Language Arts Network presents the 16th Annual Power of Words Conference, September 26-29, 2019, at Franciscan Renewal Center, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Find your voice with workshops, performances, talking circles, celebration, and more, featuring writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, community leaders, activists, educators, and health professionals.
The conference, founded in 2003, features workshops in four tracks: narrative medicine, social change, right livelihood (and making a living through the arts), ecological literacy, and engaged spirituality.
Experience psychodrama for trauma-related material, focused on cultural identities and contexts.
An evening of solo theater performances in an intimate space in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Featuring a dynamic lineup of performers and storytellers, including Lisa Chu.
Tickets now available here.
Introduction to Embodied Storytelling at Stanford Health Improvement Program.
In this workshop, stories are written and told “off the page”, using the whole body, mind, and soul, in movement, words, gesture, vocal sounds, and imagination. Creating community and witnessing each other’s stories serves as catalyst for our own storyfinding.
Together we will practice ways of embodied, active storytelling that embrace the gifts and strengths of your unique voice, life experiences, and spontaneous expression. Be in a space of community in which each story is given and received with support and encouragement.
Evening of storytelling performance + interactive exercises led by Lisa Chu, multidisciplinary artist & SoulBodyMind coach.
As spring leads into summer, buds emerge and flowers bloom, anticipating the coming warmth and season of ripening.
This afternoon immersion is for those of us committed to exploring, restoring, and recovering our sense of inner calm and compassion, in the midst of a stressful world. We will define what trauma is, and observe how our bodies may have adapted to survive the particular circumstances of our lives. Our time together will support our conscious transition from conditioned states of stress response to a state of interconnected feeling and knowing. With deepening practice, these habits of listening, full presence, and sensory engagement with self and the environment, begin to permeate our everyday lives.
What new growth might emerge in your relationships, your health, and your contributions to community from this state of awareness? Come explore with us.
Our experience is inspired by the alchemy of art and nature and supported by practice of The Four Gifts and Five Qualities of InVisioning & Renewal.
InVisioning and Renewal Retreat in Art and Nature at Elkus Ranch Half Moon Bay, California. Facilitated by life coach Lisa Chu, MD, art therapist Amy Sullivan, LMFT, and sound healer Jovani.
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