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Practicing With Pain
With Jen KnoxIn this short, 2-day course, which can be repeated as often as needed, we will look at how to compost difficult experiences and emotions to become the hero(ine)s of our journeys. We will begin by discussing how both physical and emotional pains can be teachers and, while never pleasant, offer us a certain strength that we can tap. As we move forward, we'll examine extreme emotions, such as anger, jealousy, and worry, and work to compost those emotions so that we can find true and sustainable growth.
This course is about working with our pain and extreme emotions to find optimal growth and radical self-acceptance.
About this course
In this short, 2-day course, which can be repeated as often as needed, we will look at how to compost difficult experiences and emotions to become the hero(ine)s of our journeys. We will begin by discussing how both physical and emotional pains can be teachers and, while never pleasant, offer us a certain strength that we can tap. As we move forward, we'll examine extreme emotions, such as anger, jealousy, and worry, and work to compost those emotions so that we can find true and sustainable growth.
Meet your Teacher
The co-owner of Unleash Creatives, a holistic arts organization, Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. She is the author of We Arrive Uninvited (Steel Toe Books Award Winner) and The Glass City (Press Americana Prize for Prose). She has also co-written two books on creativity, Living Art and Create & Curate: 500 Ideas for Artists and Writers. After earning her BA from Otterbein and MFA from Bennington in Creative Nonfiction, Jen went on to work in the nonprofit world where she directed a writers-in-communities program that supported at-risk populations to find and share their voice and use writing as a tool to explore difficult subjects on the page. While teaching creative writing to adults and children for over a decade and leveraging her community experience to teach leadership and personal empowerment at Ohio State University, Jen earned her 200-hour Teaching Certification through Uplifted™ Yoga YTT. She began studying meditation techniques with various instructors around the world and ultimately began to combine her passion for creative expression and leadership with mindfulness practices.