Writing from the True Voice

When you begin to write out of your true voice, you often begin
to write about topics that you never dreamed you’d be
writing about. About experiences, characters and story
lines that you never imagined. What you’ve done is open
the core of your creativity and your writing naturally gets better.
I’ve never seen it fail; the writing naturally gets better.

However, when I work with people, my emphasis is on
opening them to the deeper passion and opening them to
their true voice while, at the same time, I am teaching
them technique. Technique is a very important part of the
foundation. It’s not only that you open up to the passion.
You do need certain writers’ techniques that support the
expression of your creativity.

Mystery, Intuition and Creativity

Or How Far Down the Rabbit Hole Are You Willing to Go.
A One Day Workshop presented by Emily Hanlon

Saturday, March 3, Snow date, March 10,
Emily's House, Westchester County, NY. 9:30-5:00

How do you explore the mystery of you?

What does intuition have to do with creativity?

How can you give birth to the true Self whose visions of possibility and becoming are beyond the mind's horizons?


Inner Vision is the mediator between the worlds...

Creativity is a force that gathers its energy in the mysterious inner worlds and gradually moves toward definition and completion in the outer world. The problem, especially in Western culture, is that we are educated to focus on the outer world, which demands us to get it right, get it done and be successful!

Creative success can not be determined by the outside world. If we focus on that "prize" we are very likely to miss the real success, which is internal, deeply personal and will, paradoxically, affect your relationship to others in the outer world, but rarely in ways we expect.

The question becomes how to turn our sights inward? How to trust the inner vision as our wise guide in the shadowy and chaotic inner landscape? This demands a leap of faith, which is why the metaphor of falling down the rabbit hole is such a good one.

Like Alice, we must hurl ourselves after the white rabbit knowing that once we enter the dark, the inner vision will flip on... like a switch... but we have to believe!

Our inner vision has very different abilities from our outer sight.

Our inner vision has no fear of the unknown.

Our inner vision can pierce the veils of mystery and magic and embrace paradox.

Our inner vision is innately a wanderering pilgrim who knows that getting lost is being found.

Our inner vision is an explorer and imagineer of divine proportions!!!

Our inner vision is guiding light into our soul.

How do we take this leap of faith and hurl ourselves like Alice into the unknown?

There are many ways to do this and it is an ongoing process. We are going to explore some of the ways in this workshop, Mystery, Intuition and Creativity or How Far Down the Rabbit Hole Are You Willing to Go? It will be a day of total nonlinear thinking filled with energy of the unexpected!

Be ready for some serious fun as we throw open the doorways of you inner seer through a variety of techniques that will call upon the powers of intuition, a belief in the cosmic possibilities of Wonderland and the reuniting of the imaginative child with the deep knowing of the wise woman within.

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