Universal Table

Finding the We in Them, the Us in You

Welcome

Wising Up

ABOUT OUR PRESS

ADVISORY BOARD

SUBJECTS

Writers Collective

Philosophy & Writers

Weight of Felony

Participants

Naturalized Citizenship

Bookstore

Library: Anthologies A-H

COMPLEX ALLEGIANCES

CONNECTED

CREATIVITY & CONSTRAINT

DARING TO REPAIR

DOUBLE LIVES

FAMILIES

Library: Anthologies I-Z

ILLNESS & GRACE

KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

LOVE AFTER 70

SHIFTING BALANCE SHEETS

SIBLINGS

VIEW BED: VIEW BEDSIDE

Library: Non-Fiction

GOD SPEAKS MY LANGUAGE

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM

LAST FLIGHT OUT

WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS

Library: Fiction, Poetry

BREATHING IN PORTUGUESE

EPIPHANIES

GERMS OF TRUTH

HEARTS AS BIG AS FISTS

HYMN THAT MEANDERS

LIVE YOUR LIFE

ONLY BEAUTIFUL

SANCTITY OF THE MOMENT

VISIBLE SIGNS

Web Anthologies

ColdShoulderSteadyingGaze

Through Glass Darkly

Reading for Relation

Wising Up Gallery

KINDNESS: Photo Gallery

Kindness: Photo Gallery 2

About Us

WRITING FOR INSIGHT
ILLNESS & MEANING

WRITING OURSELVES BACK INTO THE FLOW OF LIFE

This six week writing workshop explores how the distinctive qualities of different genres of writing - poetry, memoir, and short story - can help us claim and integrate key dimensions of the experience of illness, the shifting senses of our body, our self, and our community, all of which can be challenged, often and repeatedly. Using the anthology Illness & Grace: Terror & Transformation, we will read the writing of contemporary writers making sense of their own experiences of illness, and explore how  our own writing can help us shape and share our own experiences. This course is for anyone who is interested in using the reflective and transformational qualities of writing to help them explore life-changing events and discover new and gracious stories to inform their lives.

Writing assignments will be commented on each week and participants will have two individual phone or Skype video conferences during the course period. We will use various excerpts from Illness & Grace: Terror & Transformation as discussion texts. The price of the book is included in the course cost.

Course offered on both an individual and a group basis. Group courses offered on a rolling basis as enough students enroll. Minimal enrollment of 4 maximum of 8.
  $220

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THE INVENTORIES WE KEEP / TOOLS FOR THE JOURNEY

This Writing for Insight group course is designed for nurses, therapists, social workers and other healthcare professonals who are interested in using writing for reflection and transformation. It will be of interest to aspiring writers and also to people who just want to feel more at rest in their chosen profession, whether they are just beginning and trying to reconcile what they learned in class with what they see in practice, struggling with burnout, or on the way to a new career but would like to unload some baggage before they do. Through essay, memoir, fiction and poetry, participants are invited to explore the sometimes messy, funny, infuriating, frustrating, discouraging, invigorating, and gracious intersections between their personal lives, their professional practice, and the systems which shape their practice. It is designed to help them find a personal - and a public - voice that speaks from the wholeness of their own experience. 

Writing assignments will be commented on each week and participants will have two individual phone or Skype video conferences during the course period. We will use various excerpts from View from the Bed: View from the Bedside as discussion texts. The price of the book is included in the course cost.


Course offered on both an individual and a group basis. Group courses offered on a rolling basis as enough students enroll. Minimal enrollment of 4 maximum of 8.  $220

CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION

OF FURTHER INTEREST

LIBRARY
   Illness & Grace: Terror & Transformation
    View from the Bed: View from the Bedside
    Hearts as Big as Fists
    Keys to the Kingdom: Reflections on Music and the Mind

BOOKSTORE
GALLERY
WRITERS COLLECTIVE
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Universal Table   Finding the We in Them, the Us in You.   Wising Up Press
www.universaltable.org      P.O. Box 2122, Decatur, GA 30031-2122      404-276-6046