Writing Toward Wholeness

Writing Toward Wholeness: A Circle of Trust® Workshop

Thomas Dean, Facilitator

Writing can play a powerful role in finding one’s authentic purpose in life—one’s wholeness. Writer, teacher, speaker, and activist Parker Palmer says in his book A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life that life’s external forces and expectations as well as our internal fears and brokenness tend to divide us from that wholeness, which various cultural and spiritual traditions have called true self, original nature, inner teacher, identity, integrity, and soul. Palmer cofounded the Center for Courage and Renewal and originated the Circle of Trust®, whose principles and practices create trustworthy space for the individual soul to show up. (More information on the Courage and Renewal® approach and Circles of Trust can be found at couragerenewal.org/courage-renewal-approach/.) Using the Circle of Trust approach, this workshop will place writing front and center as a potent pathway for exploration, discovery,…