Course Description
Language of Instruction:English|Category: Story Narration
A bedtime story can perhaps be the first memory you remember from your childhood. As a kid, we loved to live in the world of fairy tales. At that time, those fairy tales did seem real, inspiring and mysterious. As we grow up, we start living in a world far away from Snow White’s of the fairy tale, little realising that our own life is a wonderful story waiting to be written. Yes, you should write your own autobiography.
What is an autobiography?
From time immemorial, great heroic stories have continued to inspire people. In literature, autobiographies have the same effect. While Benjamin Franklin’s famous autobiography is seen as one of best memoirs to be written in America, Nelson Mandela’s ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ narrates a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph. Be it power of truth narrated by Gandhi’s ‘My Experiments with Truth’’ or Obama’s self discovery in ‘Dreams from my Father’, autobiographies have been read by people around the globe.
Why should you write your autobiography?
Has the thought of writing your own true story crossed your mind? Did you actually sit down to pen down your life stories? Does all this sound difficult? It isn’t as difficult as you feel. And there are some techniques which can make this exercise easy. For example, tools such as mind mapping and free flow writing helps you generate ideas, and organize memories so that you are able to narrate an effective inspiring story. Briefly, below are the steps you can follow to write a masterpiece:
- Prepare a creative sanctuary where you can feel safe to explore your memories.
- Learn techniques for accessing memories.
- Use mind mapping as an effective whole brain technique for generating ideas and organizing them.
- Master concentration and relaxation to create vignettes, poems and chapters in 5 minutes sessions.
- Use non-preferred hand drawings and writings to access material not consciously available.
- Learn to use pure and directed free flow 5-minute writings to break through resistance and write poems, stories vignettes in five minutes.
- Intuitively represent the chapters of their life in 5 minute nonpreferred hand drawings.
- Create the table of contents of their life story.
- Discover the themes of their life and gain clarity and insights about the meaning,
purpose and wisdom of their life.
- Explore their life archetypes (Awakening The Heroes Within-Carol Pearson) and write a fairytale, myth that summarize their life story.
Enroll in this course to create a masterpiece with your own story!
What’s in the course:
- 4 LIVE interactive online classes + access to class recordings
- Course timings: Classes will be held between 9 AM to 12 PM
- Online access to study material
- Feedback on your work
Course outline:
- Preparing your Creative Sanctuary and Priming Your Memory Bank
- Basic Tools, Mind Mapping and Free flow Writing
- The Chapters of Your Life
About course instructor:
Sara Deutsch has 27 years experience in teaching creative writing to students. She incorporates lecture, demonstration, feedback, and experiential processes. She has done M.S. from Tulane University. She has done her Ph.D. from Rutgers, California Institute of Integral Studies. She is also certified as Master Hypnotist & Hypnotherapist.
Books published:
- SECRETS OF THE DANDELION--A Book of Healing
- THE FIVE MINUTE MUSE
She lives in Eugene, Oregon.