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Writing with Spirit: Creative Encounters with Sacred
Text
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., July 11-15
Julia Watts Belser, M.Div.
Drawing upon the rich resources of the Hebrew Bible,
this course will delight the writer's soul, help tap
into creativity, and let participants engage with scripture
through their own poetry and prose. Combining passionate,
poetical text study with liberating writing practice,
the class will encourage participants to explore how
biblical words resonate within the context of our own
lives, histories, and dreams. Full of resource, exercises
and creative techniques that participants can take home,
this classwill empower clergy, educators and writers
of all kinds to crack open creative windows to these
texts in their own hearts and their own communities.
No previous writing experience necessary. A working
writer, Julia Watts Belser believes in helping people
reconnect their creative arts with sacred texts and
tradition. A passionate Jewish educator committed to
forging connections across traditions, Julia is a rabbinical
student at the Academy of Jewish Religion in Los Angeles
and a doctoral student in Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley
and the Graduate Theological Union. Her short stories,
essays, and poetry have appeared in The Journal of Woman
and Religion, Midstream: A Monthly Jewish Review, Marion
Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, The Writer Online,
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly,
Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art and
other magazines and newspapers. Offered in collaboration
with the GTU Summer Session.
Exploring Our Spiritual Selves through Dream Work
5:30-9:30 p.m., Aug. 8-12, 2005
Starr King School
Jeremy Taylor
We all dream several times a night, and each dream is
like a snapshot from the unconscious showing us what
we do not yet grasp with our waking mind. How can we
work with our dreams to understand our complex spiritual
selves? How can we understand the dreams of others?
Is dream language the language of the Divine? Why do
dreams speak in metaphor? How does understanding our
dreams affect our life in the world? This course explores
these questions and offers fundamental assumptions and
techniques for group and individual dream work. Everyone
is welcome. Offered in collaboration with the GTU
Summer Session.
2005-2006
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