Women’s Satsang: Writing From the Heart with Nancy Slonim Aronie
May 19 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm PDT
With warm, lively, often humorous anecdotes, advice, and lessons, Nancy Slonim Aronie will share her unique approach to creative writing as a path to healing the self, showing how to reverse the damaging effects done to individuals in school, where red pens disciplined grammar and taught them to mistrust their natural ability as storytellers–freezing them in their creative process. The only rule Nancy uses in her workshops is when someone finishes reading we tell them what we loved. Our time together will be a mini version of a writing workshop, including one prompt and a short writing exercise. We’ll listen to a few pieces, do some laughing, do some crying (Nancy says she’ll handle that part), and a bit of writing. Join us!
Nancy Slonim Aronie is the author of MEMOIR AS MEDICINE: the Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but gorgeously yours) Life Story and WRITING FROM THE HEART; Finding the Power of your Inner Voice. She has been a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, Ct. Aronie wrote a monthly column in McCall’smagazine and was the recipient of the Eye of The Beholder Artist in Residence Award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Nancy was recognized for excellence in teaching for all three years she taught with Robert Coles at Harvard University. She is the founder of The Chilmark Writing Workshop on Martha’s Vineyard and teaches Jumpstart your Memoir; Write it from the Heart at Esalen, Kripalu, Omega Institute, Open Center in NYC and Blue Spirit in Costa Rica. Her column, From The Heart, appears biweekly in The Martha’s Vineyard Times.
For those who identify as Women, whether CIS, Trans, or non-binary
Women’s Satsang Mission Statement
The Women’s Satsang has been formed to help cultivate heart connection and allyship among people within the Ram Dass Community who identify as women, whether cisgender, non-conforming, or non-binary women. As an autonomous group, our purpose is
- to deepen into the teachings of Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba from a female perspective
- to foster connection and mutual empowerment within the Ram Dass Community, and
- bring forward the wisdom of women for the benefit of all beings and the earth.
Our Values include:
- Lovingkindness
- Honoring relationality and inclusivity
- Allowing for ambiguity and mystery
- Celebrating the light as well as the dark, embodiment as well as ascension
- Blessing the web of interbeing that connects us all
- Respecting people over performances
To register, sign up for the Ram Dass Fellowship, and check “Women’s Fellowship” under the Fellowship Group Options. You will be added to the mailing list and will receive monthly invitations to events.
