Mindful Writing: Cultivating Creativity Through Mindfulness – Pittsburgh, PA

Awaken Pittsburgh fosters well-being, empathy, and compassion for all by teaching and encouraging mindfulness and meditation practices. We recognize that mindfulness can be experienced and applied in all facets of our life. Mindful Writing is an entry into both the present moment experience and creative potential. We invite you to join us in the communal exploration.

Workshop Description:

This workshop will explore the connections between mindfulness, writing, and cycles. How can repetition and ritual, whether natural or created, take our practices in new directions? Participants will be guided through meditation and creative writing prompts to find focus, experiment with word choice, and discover inner landscapes.

Writers and meditators of all levels and backgrounds are welcome.

L ogistics:

Sunday, November 3, 3-5 p.m.

In-person at the Squirrel Hill Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh.

This course is offered on a sliding scale, with a suggested price of $25, an invitation to pay more if you can (to support others), and a welcome to pay less, as your circumstances allow.

If you sign up and find that you are unable to attend, please cancel so that somone else can have your spot.

About our presenters:

Derrick Jones is a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Certified Physician Assistant, poet, writer, freestyle rapper, dancer, and an avid lover of life and learning. Derrick has held a daily meditation practice for over 7 years and attended multiple meditation retreats, including one 10-Day Vipassana Silent Meditation Retreat. Derrick has most recently taught Mindful Writing: Cultivating Creativity Through Mindfulness at the Spring 2023 Big Om Yoga Retreat.

Jodie Free is a writing coach, tutor and editor for The Writing Studio in Pittsburgh, where she works with writers of all ages. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College, and an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. A member of Carlow’s Madwomen in the Attic community, her poetry, stories and essays are featured or forthcoming in various journals. She has held a daily meditation practice for over 2 years.