SDF Mindfulness & Creative Writing

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was " Loving Kindness " and she introduced it with that well known Mary Oliver poem "Wild Geese" .  Bev introduced the 7 minutes of writing with the prompt I can ease one life inspired by this Emily Dickinson poem: If I can stop one heart from breaking   If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was "Memories of Kindness"  and she introduced it with a breathtaking poem called  "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye . Bev introduced the 7 minutes of writing with the prompt self under self, threaded through time   and this came from  "Summer Farm" by Norman MacCaig .

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links In this session Adrienne revisited the Body Scan practice  - this is the one that you might find easiest to remember without support, but do remember you can do it with Adrienne's support if you click on that link. She opened with a poem "The Journey", by Mary Oliver . Bev's writing prompt was another poem called "The Journey", but this one was by David Whyte .

    NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was Mindfulness with the Support of Sound (these practices can be accessed on YouTube if you would like to do the mindfulness in your own time). She opened with a poem called "Lost" by David Wagoner . Bev's writing prompt "edges of song that came in on the wind" was taken from Kenneth Steven's poem "The Fiddler" . Some introspective writing emerged from the session and we shared the link to a moving philosophical video by Huw Evans called "Not Long Now". This is a life reflection by this writer exploring his own mortality; roughly an hour long and you need a peaceful place to listen to it but what a powerful essay.

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was the Body Scan (these practices can be accessed on YouTube if you would like to do the mindfulness in your own time). She opened with a poem called Instructions by Rudy Francisco. Bev prompted writing about "What the river says..."   with William Stafford's famous poem, Ask Me . Many thanks to Kate Lindsay for sending in this poem: Cracks and Crevices II Memories  bend unwilling to break hearts fracture  remembering delves into the cracks and crevices  pours molten gold into the fissures like that Japanese art  that I can’t remember the name of  perhaps the name doesn’t matter so much as the process of using  the gold nuggets  in our cache to fill the crevices  and cracks rendering them part of the whole laying foundations for the inevitable  fissures appearing  kindness and softness of memories flexing themselves 

   NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today explored Memories of Kindness (these practices can be accessed on YouTube if you would like to do the mindfulness in your own time). She opened with a poem called Your Soft Heart by Nikita Gill:  Bev's poem and prompt continued the theme with "The Kindness of Memory" by Mary Lou Healy. For those of you who are considering using writing in workshops remember there are plenty of free resources on the Lapidus Scotland website: Lapidus Scotland's Facilitator Toolkit