"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.” ― Annie Dillard

 

Council is a practice that can nurture personal, professional and family lives. It offers a way of communicating that encourages attentive listening and heart-felt compassionate speaking. Circle practice recognizes that each voice needs to be heard, every person has a gift, each of us has a story to share. As we make room for this circular wisdom unexpected insights arise, healing and understanding can happen. Each person’s voice contributes to the whole truth.

 

Through the medium of The Way of Council we will create the space and means for our creative writing to flow and inform our everyday lives andexperience and allow the deep expression of connection and beauty to all existence.

 

“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” 
― Natalie Goldberg, 

 

 

We will 

 

• Create special time and place for the Council setting

• Learn and practice the Council guidelines

• Use story and write from our own lives; embracing the art of attentive listening

• Open the various forms of Council to share and support our writing passion 

 

We may receive 

 

• Council as a personal life practice

• Writing as a personal life practice

• How the stillness of Council supports the surrender to our writing and creates an opening, an alert alive vibrant energy of creative flow

• As we share the truth inside, we discover that we have a gift that needs to be seen and heard which can arise out of the formless, timeless moment to be the canvas for our everyday life