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PURPLE SAGE ARTS
A pastoral counseling service promoting healing
through the integration of psychology, spirituality and the arts.
Focused on using journal writing,
storytelling and other creative methods, Purple Sage Arts workshops create a
safe and nurturing environment for those who are seeking to find meaning in
their journey of grief, loss, or life transition.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
The Art of Remembering: A Memoir and Guided
Autobiography Workshop
Your life is your journey. Your journey
is your story. Your story is your legacy.
It only takes one generation to forget.
Through a facilitated
process of creative journaling exercises, participants discover their life
stories in a supportive and nurturing environment.
This workshop may be customized for organizations, churches,
or support groups. All levels of writing
experience accommodated.
Conscious Living – Conscious Dying
A
workshop on life, death, meaning, and stewardship.
“When you start using death as a means
of focusing on life, then everything becomes just as it is, just this moment,
an extraordinary opportunity to be really alive.”
Stephen Levine
Once we accept the truth that our breaths are numbered, we
begin to live our lives differently. Through a variety of creative exercises
this workshop allows participants to face their own mortality, fear and grief
and to find the courage to live their lives with a sense of purpose and
calling.
Topics include: Society’s view of death, understanding the
grief journey, types of losses, disenfranchised and complicated grief,
unfinished business, meaning making, planning for the eventuality of our own
death, and living life with intention.
Common Journeys – Continuing Bonds
This workshop is designed for people who are walking the
path of grief. Guided in a gently supportive environment, participants have the
opportunity to remember their loved ones and to process their lives in light of
their loss. We never get over our loss, we learn to live with it. Journal
writing helps to facilitate this process.
Story Weaving – A Life Quilt Cancer Survivor Workshop
This workshop is designed to help people process the illness
experience and the gifts that come from that particularly challenging and
hope-filled journey.
The Power of Oral History Storytelling for Organizations
“The systematic collection of living
people’s testimony about their experience.” Judith Moyer
Organizations such as the Order of Friars Servants of Mary, Rosary
High School and The Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have developed and recorded
their oral histories. The oral history
storytelling process conducted by Amy Luskey-Barth was profiled in an article
published in Momentum Magazine followed by a workshop presented at the NCEA
Conference in Anaheim. Oral History
Storytelling is a powerful way to celebrate anniversaries and other
organizational milestones.
ALL PURPLE SAGE ARTS
WORKSHOPS CAN BE FORMATTED AND CUSTOMIZED TO MEET YOUR ORGANIZATION’S NEEDS AND
SCHEDULE INCLUDING WEEKEND, ONE DAY, MULTI-WEEK, OR 5 DAY FORMAT.
For more information about sponsoring or
registering for a Purple Sage Arts Workshop email: purplesagearts@gmail.com
