The Writing Pad invites
you to
*Tracking Our Lives through Reflective Journaling:*
*A Workshop with Dr. June Leavitt*
Jan. 31, 2019 10 AM
– 3 PM
In this seminar for writers, artists and all creative souls, we will
learn how to become more intimate with our own experiences through the
craft of reflective journaling. Unlike normative diary keeping, we begin
with writing exercises that bring our focus to a recent *cycle* in our
lives. We note down the atmosphere of the period, the people who were
important to us, the projects we did, the sensations, images and insights
that have stayed with us. We then expand upon our reflections on the
period, through writing tasks that involve personification of events,
dialogue, and the chronicling of memories. These creative techniques for
digging deeper into our experiences can be applied beautifully by writers
to gain more intimacy with their fictional or autobiographical characters!
*Tracking our Lives through Reflective Journaling* would not be
complete without reading excerpts from the diaries of Virginia Woolf in the
context of her very strange life. We will do this in order to compare her
understanding of the diary genre with the evocative journaling methods we
will be plying.
Participants are asked to bring a new, five-subject, ruled notebook to the
workshop.
Bio: *Dr. June Leavitt* lectures in mystical literature at Ben Gurion
University, works as a freelance writer and facilitates a creative writing
workshop in Jerusalem. Her publications include *The Mystical Life of Franz
Kafka,* (Oxford, 2012) and *Esoteric Symbols: the* *Tarot in Yeats, Eliot
and Kafka*, (University Press of America, 2007), as well as* Flight to
Seven Swan Bay *(Feldheim, 1985) a novel for young adults that was reissued
by Feldheim, 2012 as a classic for young readers. The publication of her
diaries-- *Storm of Terror: A Hebron Mother's Diary *(Ivan Dee*, *2002*)*
and *Maze of Terror *(Laffont, 1996), excerpts of which appeared in *US
News and World Report,* caused her to experiment with journal writing in
order to spur understanding and creative growth. For the past two years,
Leavitt has been an active participant in curative journal workshops
throughout the United States, as well as an avid scribe, dedicated to
tracking her own life.
Originally from New York, Leavitt earned her BA in English
from the University of Wisconsin. After graduating, she homesteaded five
years in the woods of New England, immigrating to Israel in 1979, where she
raised five children. She received her Masters in Foreign Literature from
Ben Gurion University when she was 56 and her PhD when she was 60. She lives
in Kiryat Arba with her husband..
Place: The Writing Pad, 53 Be’eri, Tel Aviv
Time: Thursday, January 31, 2019 10 AM – 3 PM
Cost: NIS 420, includes readings, coffee, tea and nosherei. Does not
include food for short lunch break.
Registration: email judylabensohn@gmail.comand indicate whether you will
send a check or make a bank transfer to secure your place.
Judy Labensohn, Author,
*Our Names Do Not Appear*
Founder,
*The Writing Pad *www.writeinisrael.com
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