This experiential workshop addresses personal, cultural, and mythic aspects of women's relationship to desire and the body. Here, desire is understood as being about what women long for, as well as what they yearn to change in their lives. By imaginatively working with the complex motivations and strategies that women typically use to avoid and engage their deepest yearnings and frustrations, a joyful relationship to food and one's body can be achieved. (This workshop is for women.)
Topics to be covered in this workshop include:
- Women's fears of desire, conflict, and anger;
- Undoing the strategies that blind us to our own knowings;
- Developing the inner Mother;
- Working the mythic landscape of longing, fear, and anger.
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What is the source
of our first suffering?
It lies in the fact
that we hesitated to speak.
It was born in the moment
when we accumulated
silent things within us.
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Melissa Schwartz, Ph.D. is Academic Dean and core faculty at the Institute of Imaginal Studies. Formerly a faculty member in both the Psychology and Counseling departments at Sonoma State University, she is in private practice as a Licensed Psychologist and Marriage & Family Therapist. Her interests include the psychology of women, eating disorders, couples therapy, and the Enneagram in psychotherapy.