Practicing Encounter - imagine!!!
Imagine waking each week day in July to carry a new phrase of awareness with you that opens your eyes to the many chance opportunities we all have and don't see.
Imagine seeing them! Then imagine recording them in three simple paragraphs, yes, just three, and sending them off to me.
If you have long wished that you had a daily writing practice, this is the way to begin!
If you are in a transition in your life, struggling to sort out which path to take, or simply feel dull more often than you would like, wake up with writing.
You need not be an English major. There is no red pen; spelling and grammar are suspended and traded in for the delights of discovery.
Join me from July 5th til July 23rd, three weeks, Monday through Friday. You just might encounter the real you!
Like joining a gym or starting a more healthful eating plan, we all need accountability for success. As the moderator, I am your accountability factor and I send individualized responses at least twice a week to reflect back what you share, to cheer you on as you write, to applaud your discoveries.
At the end of three weeks you will be amazed at what you have seen in your daily routine, at work, at play and in the mirror.
Contact me at bkipp@frontiernet.net for details and to register.
The cost is $129
beverly a kipp
The Quest House
A Writing Place of Healing and Inspiration.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Offering Radmacher Focus Phrase™
THE QUEST HOUSE A writing place for Inspiration and Healing is offering Radmacher Focus Phrase™
Focus Phrase is a three week daily writing process which invites you to look at your day through the lens of awareness and intention. Participants are given a new phrase to work with each weekday for three or four consecutive weeks. Conscious attention during your day provides a means to capture the intricate moments of joy and wonder (or perhaps heartache or fear) that otherwise go unnoticed or unaddressed. Focus phrase allows you to set the course of your day; rather than unconsciously riding the wave of work and play you are attentive to the highs and lows, the ordinary moments and the extraordinary ones and to capture them by writing about them in your own words. In forwarding your reflection (no more than three paragraphs) to the moderator a mirror is held up for you to see anew the sentences and paragraphs that make up the story of your life.
Quest House Summer 2010 offerings
WEARING THE WORD, based on Scripture passages, focuses on “clothing” yourself in the verses that we so often carry and in our hearts but do not necessarily wear in our actions or on our tongues.
It is a three week course and enrollment is ongoing. Scripture passages will vary, so join in often and immerse yourself in THE WORD.
PRACTICE ENCOUNTER
A delightful way to truly engage in all that summer has to offer one day at a time, one phrase at time. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enjoy every shooting star and every thunderstorm and record it in this chapter of YOUR life JULY 2010.
WONDER IN THE WORKPLACE
In August we will focus on the delight to be found in the workplace.
Contact me Beverly A. Kipp at bkipp@frontiernet.net to register, for fee information and for any questions. You are invited to follow my blogs at http://beverlykippquesthouse.blogspot.com
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Wearing the Word
WITH MY WORD…
deposit MY WORD into the bank account of your heart; paint MY WORD on your soul; write MY WORD on your hand; wear MY WORD like sacred jewelry; let MY WORD lead what you teach; include MY WORD as the base of your conversation and as if it were the spice in your food; let MY WORD be the road you walk; invite MY WORD to be the dawn that wakes you and the lullaby that sends you to sleep.
a mary anne radmacher paraphrase from Deuteronomy 11:18-21
That is the framework for the next three exciting weeks that I will share writing with seven amazing women.
It is a process that has changed my life and my relationship to THE WORD. Somehow, the act of reading scripture, and the decision to WEAR scripture in the way she describes, changes it. It helps me keep my promise. I feel like I always have it with me.
I will share my own writing here when the Spirit - with a capital S- moves me.
In the meantime I will be reveling in the opportunity to read what others are writing as they go about their ordinary days seeing extrordinary
Stay tuned.
beverly
deposit MY WORD into the bank account of your heart; paint MY WORD on your soul; write MY WORD on your hand; wear MY WORD like sacred jewelry; let MY WORD lead what you teach; include MY WORD as the base of your conversation and as if it were the spice in your food; let MY WORD be the road you walk; invite MY WORD to be the dawn that wakes you and the lullaby that sends you to sleep.
a mary anne radmacher paraphrase from Deuteronomy 11:18-21
That is the framework for the next three exciting weeks that I will share writing with seven amazing women.
It is a process that has changed my life and my relationship to THE WORD. Somehow, the act of reading scripture, and the decision to WEAR scripture in the way she describes, changes it. It helps me keep my promise. I feel like I always have it with me.
I will share my own writing here when the Spirit - with a capital S- moves me.
In the meantime I will be reveling in the opportunity to read what others are writing as they go about their ordinary days seeing extrordinary
Stay tuned.
beverly
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Don't miss the chance for wonder.
"Wearing the WORD" starts MONDAY!!!! There are a few more openings to join me for 15 days of wonder. Write each day in response to a prompt sent the night before. It is amazing what you "see" each day when you change the lens you are looking through.
Some have asked, " why Scripture verses? I am not a church goer!" and this is my reply.
Scripture is universal. If I told you one of the phrases we - yes we - would write to was " Do unto others," you would know the phrase, the meaning in a traditional sense and would not hesitate to jump in understanding that the Christian Scriptures have something to teach us about ourselves. Remember, this is about self discovery, not a creative writing or journaling course and not a term paper. There are no pre- requisites. "We write to learn what we already know." is how the one and only mary anne radmacher puts it. ( go ahead - look her up and be wowed by her. )
So, whether you belong to a church community and know the books of the Bible by heart or are afraid to enter a church for fear it will fall on you, know that the phrases and Scripture verses I will send you are compelling, challenging phrases, but they are not obscure, not arcane, not a set up and the only grade at the end will be the improvement in the grade of your daily life!!!
See the previous post for specific details, and EMAIL ME AT bkipp@frontiernet.net to sign up or ask questions. Only three days till we get started. ENJOY.
beverly kipp
The Quest House - Writing for Healing and Inspiration.
Some have asked, " why Scripture verses? I am not a church goer!" and this is my reply.
Scripture is universal. If I told you one of the phrases we - yes we - would write to was " Do unto others," you would know the phrase, the meaning in a traditional sense and would not hesitate to jump in understanding that the Christian Scriptures have something to teach us about ourselves. Remember, this is about self discovery, not a creative writing or journaling course and not a term paper. There are no pre- requisites. "We write to learn what we already know." is how the one and only mary anne radmacher puts it. ( go ahead - look her up and be wowed by her. )
So, whether you belong to a church community and know the books of the Bible by heart or are afraid to enter a church for fear it will fall on you, know that the phrases and Scripture verses I will send you are compelling, challenging phrases, but they are not obscure, not arcane, not a set up and the only grade at the end will be the improvement in the grade of your daily life!!!
See the previous post for specific details, and EMAIL ME AT bkipp@frontiernet.net to sign up or ask questions. Only three days till we get started. ENJOY.
beverly kipp
The Quest House - Writing for Healing and Inspiration.
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