Sara Deutsch, M.S., Ph.D.abd saramuse7@yahoo.com
253-441-1262
http://www.artwanted.com/Saraphael
http://www.wisewomanuniversity.org/deutsch/
FREE TELESEMINAR: November 9, 2011, 8 p.m. Eastern Time
Creative Autobiography: Telling Your Story
http://www.herbalmedicinehealing.com/store/item_view.asp?estore_itemid=1000596
253-441-1262
http://www.artwanted.com/Saraphael
http://www.wisewomanuniversity.org/deutsch/
FREE TELESEMINAR: November 9, 2011, 8 p.m. Eastern Time
Creative Autobiography: Telling Your Story
http://www.herbalmedicinehealing.com/store/item_view.asp?estore_itemid=1000596
“...With a little
imagination each person can find within herself a replacement for the myths and stories lost when we ceased
living in tribes. A person is a
complex being made up of a million
individual smells, tastes, memories and hopes. Listen for a few
minutes to the voices that run through your mind. Every psyche is a private theater filled with scenes and characters. Listen and you will hear your father,
mother, brothers, sisters,
children, lovers, friends, enemies, teachers and heroes acting out their drama on your stage. Hearing the multiple voices within
yourself will remind you that you
belong to a special clan. Your
people still inhabit you. They
will help you to celebrate your
myths, sing your songs, and tell your legends...”
From: YOUR MYTHIC JOURNEY—Finding meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling, by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox.
From: YOUR MYTHIC JOURNEY—Finding meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling, by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OUTLINE
Come on a guided journey into your past to recover the buried treasures of your memories. Reconnecting with the tastes, sounds, feelings, images, and wisdom of your life will transform your awareness of Who you are and bring new resources into your present. Five minute, whole-brain techniques---free-flow writing, mind mapping, drawings, imagery and collage, will dissolve memory and writing blocks so you can freely and easily tell your story as vignettes, short stories, myths, poems, fables, or even as chapters in your novel.
Come on a guided journey into your past to recover the buried treasures of your memories. Reconnecting with the tastes, sounds, feelings, images, and wisdom of your life will transform your awareness of Who you are and bring new resources into your present. Five minute, whole-brain techniques---free-flow writing, mind mapping, drawings, imagery and collage, will dissolve memory and writing blocks so you can freely and easily tell your story as vignettes, short stories, myths, poems, fables, or even as chapters in your novel.
I Preparing Your Creative Sanctuary.
Sending Your Critic on Vacation.
Five Minute Magic.
Dealing with Resistence.
Priming the Memory Bank, “Tell me from your childhood”
Drawing on Memory: nonpreferred hand drawings.
Floor plans/neighborhood plans, etc.
II Basic Tools
Materials: Clamp binders, colored pens, dividers.
Mind Mapping: 5 minute portraits, or transitional objects (shoes”, dolls, bicycle etc.) based on smells, sounds, images, feelings, etc.
Freeflow Writing-pure or focused five minute writings
III Chapters of Your Life Organization, Mapping Chapters, freeflow writing from clusters. Permission to follow the energy signature and skip around. Vignettes.
IV Life Overview Life themes, life myths, time capsules,
Heroic Myths, life fairy tales and fables.
V Editing An organic process. Integrating photographs and images, life portraits, self publishing.
VI Miscellaneous Symbols, trigger concepts, dialogue, metaphor, including thoughts and feelings, integrating past and future, writing from photographs or art, topics from Inspirations in handout, poetry, creative stimulation.
Sending Your Critic on Vacation.
Five Minute Magic.
Dealing with Resistence.
Priming the Memory Bank, “Tell me from your childhood”
Drawing on Memory: nonpreferred hand drawings.
Floor plans/neighborhood plans, etc.
II Basic Tools
Materials: Clamp binders, colored pens, dividers.
Mind Mapping: 5 minute portraits, or transitional objects (shoes”, dolls, bicycle etc.) based on smells, sounds, images, feelings, etc.
Freeflow Writing-pure or focused five minute writings
III Chapters of Your Life Organization, Mapping Chapters, freeflow writing from clusters. Permission to follow the energy signature and skip around. Vignettes.
IV Life Overview Life themes, life myths, time capsules,
Heroic Myths, life fairy tales and fables.
V Editing An organic process. Integrating photographs and images, life portraits, self publishing.
VI Miscellaneous Symbols, trigger concepts, dialogue, metaphor, including thoughts and feelings, integrating past and future, writing from photographs or art, topics from Inspirations in handout, poetry, creative stimulation.
MIND MAP
Five Minute Writing From “MOTHER” Mind Map My
mother made Hungarian Cabbage Rolls, liver and onions, tuna timbale with pimento sauce and roasted chicken. At night to celebrate when we watched
Alfred Hitchcock scary movies, we
shared popcorn. If my mother were an animal, she would be a timid deer or a sparrow. She was one of the youngest in a family of 12 and her brothers abused her. When she was angry, she would press her
lips together and refuse to talk
for days. Finally, my little
sister and I would break though her
silence by tickling her and making her laugh. She read me
The Pokey Little Puppy (he
always came home too late for dessert), poems, Vachel Lindsay’s Congo (“Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, cutting
through the Forrest with a golden
track”) and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Clouds ( “I am the daughter of earth
and water and nursling of the
sky. I sift through the shore of
the ocean and shore. I change but I
cannot die”) We listened to
Debussy’s Afternoon of a Fawn and made miniature floats out of clay and flower petals after
watching the Rose Parade. She
liked to listen to me play Bach
Suites on my cello, but didn’t like it when I improvised. Mother’s colors were earth
tones and beige. She became a martyr after my father died. “I have to be a mother and a father and cook and
clean and go back to teaching, and you girls don’t appreciate anything I do.” She took pottery classes and made pokka dotted vases with strikingly phallic
protuberances. She took
photography classes and made us pose on every trip until I would
hide. In a wood workshop, Mother
created a huge, heavy cello case
for me--a monumental feat! A
poignant and moving
expression of her love for me, only it was too unwieldy to ever use....
MY LOVE BOMBAY
(Student's Quick Writing from Sensory Mind Map)
I enter the
city with its sweet stench of defecation, incense, flowers, and burning cow
dung. On the side of the streets
and all around, bony brown people sell a heavenly tea that lifts the smell of
cardamon rising through the thick air.
Myriad purples, yellows, and deep oranges make up the endless array of
color in the markets that sell
fruit, beans, henna, sandals with soles made from the rubber that has been
peeled off tires. Omnipresent
tobacco venders sell a concoction of tobacco, mixed with the delicious smell of
spices and a milky white liquid wrapped in banana leaves. Chaos reigns. Voices everywhere shouting, murmuring, drowning in the titillating
chiming of the bicycle bells and taxis, rickshaws selfishly beeping and speeding, big cargo trucks
rumbling. The sky spins with
melancholy kaleidoscoping pigeons.
A huge hawk
swoops carving thee hot air with its cutting wings, grazing the highest villa
suites with the abundant bougainvillea climbing and spilling over the garden
walls…Annoying enraging
never-ending crowds and lines and the smells of plaid shirts and saris
sticking to pungent damp skin, fill the train stations, the national bus
ports…Sensational billboards with melodramatic beauties loom over the city
enticing the destitute, the diseased, the middle class. Haggard dogs slink and pilfer, forage
and scrounge, slipping into alley
ways returning to places without owners.
Evenings mark the shuffling to the temples, the burning of incense,
acknowledgment to the abundance gods.
SALNA MONTI, College of
Marin, 2/95
Samples of Student Evaluations of Sara’s Classes
“This class means so much to me. It has given me tools invaluable to my personal growth and to the facilitation of major life changes occurring with me. It gives me a safe forum to interact with others from a private inner level and helps me in that way to develop trust. I have in casual conversation with other students gained the perspective that this class carries these positive qualities out into the community as well. I feel that the loss of this class would be not only a personal loss to me, but to the college and to the entire community and beyond. “
“I LOVED YOUR CLASS! You made me not afraid to express my feelings in writing and drawing. In a way, you’ve set me free. I didn’t know what a captive I was until you gave me a key to fly away from my overcritical self. It feels great to be out of jail! Love,”
“This is the most stimulating, affirming and warm class I’ve ever attended (and I’ve attended hundreds of classes.) Thank you. Thank you. You are beautiful, spontaneous, sincere and full of love. Thank you again. The class was just perfect.”
“Ms. Sara Deutsch you have captured the complete, undivided attention of your class from the moment of beginning to end of hours. To do so must entail not only, I believe, a great deal of prior preparation plus a dedicated form of desiring to hold the group’s attention. You do it admirably and so in consequence I have come away feeling rewarded, more knowledgeable and desire to learn further from future classes.”
“I think mind-mapping training should be required in school systems at every age and in businesses. Sara has found all kinds of magical tools to change our locked-in sense of limited possibilities to a soaring winged picture of multiple good outcomes, unexpected solutions and world opening choices. Mind-mapping seems essential to a world where a talent for diversity and tolerance for ambiguity are increasingly necessary. Bravo”
“The class has provided more FUN than any I’ve taken! It has been useful in restoring confidence in my ability to remember (and minimizing fear of Alzheimer’s)...I’m still recalling scenes and emotions from my childhood.”
“All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. I’ve been a rather fearful person and have not found it easy to try new things. You have allowed me to find a bit of courage to take small steps into new places. You have made real what I have read about so much, intuition, etc. I admire the way you trust yourself and the present moment. Gassho--a word in Zen which means Buddha turning to Buddha. This is for you.”
“What was wonderful was the sense of abundance. Lots of games, lots of tricks, lots of consolations, magic words and keys to unlock puzzles. I write for a living and coming to this class gave me back a feeling of the playfulness, the easiness that is available---that worlds of actual fun and nearly instant -- 5 minute--anyway gratification. So I don’t have to wait 5 months until maybe finishing a screenplay to write something I feel good about. The 5 minute concept is a gift from you for the rest of my life. Thank you.”
“For 40 years I’ve harbored ill feelings of guilt, feelings of inferiority, of being a second class citizen. I’ve felt that what happened to me during WWII, interned in a concentration camp and tormented by propaganda etc. left me feeling very stifled. In this class I’ve found feeling and emotions surfacing which I had never felt possible. Actually, now I feel after this class as if a great weight, a tremendous burden had been lifted from me.”
“My life was a bowl of soup. All the goodies had sunk to the bottom. This class was the spoon!”
“The free flow writing of 5 minutes a day and the dream interpretation are the things that helped me tremendously. The free-flow seemed to unblock the welled up creativity and writing stored in me. I found that I could go beyond my own self-imposed limitations with writing. It was like I could get out a lot of condensed ideas into clear understanding on paper more effectively and creatively because the 5 minute free-flow forces me to do that. I could also apply it to more formal writings for essays in my other classes which was a tremendous help and tool.”
“I think mind-mapping training should be required in school systems at every age and in businesses. Sara has found all kinds of magical tools to change our locked-in sense of limited possibilities to a soaring winged picture of multiple good outcomes, unexpected solutions and world opening choices. Mind-mapping seems essential to a world where a talent for diversity and tolerance for ambiguity are increasingly necessary. Bravo” (name illegible)
“When I signed up for the course I thought I was going to learn something about how the mind functioned physiologically that I could apply to computers, Artificial Intelligence, but I am not disappointed. I learned about myself and how much I really do like creative writing and I may soon start writing fantasy books for my wife and I. I feel much more confident in myself and my writing thanks to this class. Thank you.”
“What was wonderful was the sense of abundance. Lots of games, lots of tricks, lots of consolations, magic words and keys to unlock puzzles. I write for a living and coming to this class gave me back a feeling of the playfulness, the easyness that is available---that worlds of actual fun and nearly instant -- 5 minute--anyway gratification. So I don’t have to wait 5 months until maybe finishing a screenplay to write something I feel good about. The 5 minute concept is a gift from you for the rest of my life. Thank you.” Pamela Thomas
“Thank you for the class! You certainly are doing inroads on breaking down the walls that separate each one of us. When we see that everyone suffers it makes us feel less alone. Your creativity is wonderful and spontaneous--Your presentation is fine--your light shines. “
“Sara’s class was fun and different. .. Learned great stuff from in class dreamwork and aspire to reach Sara’s fabulous ability in working with dreams. It’s fun and important for me to have a class that supports my creativity--like doing something new, different and creative daily. Sara--you’re very good at giving positive feedback and encouraging people to expand and explore new places. Thanks.”
“This class has been the healthiest thing I’ve done for myself lately. I’ve learned:--to stare my critic in the eye and begin to snuff him out;--to play and let it be OK, not irresponsible; --to nurture my creative spirit in a supportive environment.For this and much more, I thank you. My creative life is changing form your inspiration.”
“Very Positive Uplifting Effect. Freeflow writing is a very helpful technique for me and works great. Doing something new everyday has been happening everyday! Mapping, Drawing and Visualization are good tools for me in handling problems and depression. I feel more creative and positive about my own life.”
“The class was advertised as a writing class but it was really about people. It was about us. It was about knowing yourself well enough to express yourself. It was about knowing others well enough to be able to communicate effectively and with passion. It was about knowing and understanding. It was about writing in a way to relate, to inspire and entertain. And it was about how we all have something very valuable to share.”
“Ms. Sara Deutsch you have captured the complete, undivided attention of your class form the moment of beginning to end of hours. To do so must entail not only, I believe, a great deal of prior preparation plus a dedicated form of desiring to hold the group’s attention. You do it admirably and so in consequence I have come away feeling rewarded, more knowledgeable and desire to learn further from future classes. “
“..The most important part of the class for me was ..by moving toward my fears rather than typically running from them, I learned that my prevalent feelings of inadequacy were erroneous. My writings weren't condemned and although I didn’t share in great quantities, that which I did share was an immensely profitable stepping stone for me.” Tom Pasquale
“Sara--This has been a truly magnificent class! ..You are very talented at modeling and exploring and categorizing and drawing out depths of experience from people..You listen and then key right in on ideas and games and methods of getting even further into healing and knowing ourselves. You work well with groups--You move a plan outward to fit with everyone and are very open to spontaneous flow.”
Sara -
Opening up to anyone is a totally
new experience for me. I've spent my whole life hiding
my feelings thinking I didn't have a right to speak
up. Your class helped me to understand I do have that
right and that there are a lot of different outlets to
use to let go of all that hurt I have built up inside
of me. You gave me tools I will use for the rest of my
life. I am a much better person for having attended
your Creative Journaling class. Thank you again for
all your kindness and instruction.
“This class means so much to me. It has given me tools invaluable to my personal growth and to the facilitation of major life changes occurring with me. It gives me a safe forum to interact with others from a private inner level and helps me in that way to develop trust. I have in casual conversation with other students gained the perspective that this class carries these positive qualities out into the community as well. I feel that the loss of this class would be not only a personal loss to me, but to the college and to the entire community and beyond. “
“I LOVED YOUR CLASS! You made me not afraid to express my feelings in writing and drawing. In a way, you’ve set me free. I didn’t know what a captive I was until you gave me a key to fly away from my overcritical self. It feels great to be out of jail! Love,”
“This is the most stimulating, affirming and warm class I’ve ever attended (and I’ve attended hundreds of classes.) Thank you. Thank you. You are beautiful, spontaneous, sincere and full of love. Thank you again. The class was just perfect.”
“Ms. Sara Deutsch you have captured the complete, undivided attention of your class from the moment of beginning to end of hours. To do so must entail not only, I believe, a great deal of prior preparation plus a dedicated form of desiring to hold the group’s attention. You do it admirably and so in consequence I have come away feeling rewarded, more knowledgeable and desire to learn further from future classes.”
“I think mind-mapping training should be required in school systems at every age and in businesses. Sara has found all kinds of magical tools to change our locked-in sense of limited possibilities to a soaring winged picture of multiple good outcomes, unexpected solutions and world opening choices. Mind-mapping seems essential to a world where a talent for diversity and tolerance for ambiguity are increasingly necessary. Bravo”
“The class has provided more FUN than any I’ve taken! It has been useful in restoring confidence in my ability to remember (and minimizing fear of Alzheimer’s)...I’m still recalling scenes and emotions from my childhood.”
“All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. I’ve been a rather fearful person and have not found it easy to try new things. You have allowed me to find a bit of courage to take small steps into new places. You have made real what I have read about so much, intuition, etc. I admire the way you trust yourself and the present moment. Gassho--a word in Zen which means Buddha turning to Buddha. This is for you.”
“What was wonderful was the sense of abundance. Lots of games, lots of tricks, lots of consolations, magic words and keys to unlock puzzles. I write for a living and coming to this class gave me back a feeling of the playfulness, the easiness that is available---that worlds of actual fun and nearly instant -- 5 minute--anyway gratification. So I don’t have to wait 5 months until maybe finishing a screenplay to write something I feel good about. The 5 minute concept is a gift from you for the rest of my life. Thank you.”
“For 40 years I’ve harbored ill feelings of guilt, feelings of inferiority, of being a second class citizen. I’ve felt that what happened to me during WWII, interned in a concentration camp and tormented by propaganda etc. left me feeling very stifled. In this class I’ve found feeling and emotions surfacing which I had never felt possible. Actually, now I feel after this class as if a great weight, a tremendous burden had been lifted from me.”
“My life was a bowl of soup. All the goodies had sunk to the bottom. This class was the spoon!”
“The free flow writing of 5 minutes a day and the dream interpretation are the things that helped me tremendously. The free-flow seemed to unblock the welled up creativity and writing stored in me. I found that I could go beyond my own self-imposed limitations with writing. It was like I could get out a lot of condensed ideas into clear understanding on paper more effectively and creatively because the 5 minute free-flow forces me to do that. I could also apply it to more formal writings for essays in my other classes which was a tremendous help and tool.”
“I think mind-mapping training should be required in school systems at every age and in businesses. Sara has found all kinds of magical tools to change our locked-in sense of limited possibilities to a soaring winged picture of multiple good outcomes, unexpected solutions and world opening choices. Mind-mapping seems essential to a world where a talent for diversity and tolerance for ambiguity are increasingly necessary. Bravo” (name illegible)
“When I signed up for the course I thought I was going to learn something about how the mind functioned physiologically that I could apply to computers, Artificial Intelligence, but I am not disappointed. I learned about myself and how much I really do like creative writing and I may soon start writing fantasy books for my wife and I. I feel much more confident in myself and my writing thanks to this class. Thank you.”
“What was wonderful was the sense of abundance. Lots of games, lots of tricks, lots of consolations, magic words and keys to unlock puzzles. I write for a living and coming to this class gave me back a feeling of the playfulness, the easyness that is available---that worlds of actual fun and nearly instant -- 5 minute--anyway gratification. So I don’t have to wait 5 months until maybe finishing a screenplay to write something I feel good about. The 5 minute concept is a gift from you for the rest of my life. Thank you.” Pamela Thomas
“Thank you for the class! You certainly are doing inroads on breaking down the walls that separate each one of us. When we see that everyone suffers it makes us feel less alone. Your creativity is wonderful and spontaneous--Your presentation is fine--your light shines. “
“Sara’s class was fun and different. .. Learned great stuff from in class dreamwork and aspire to reach Sara’s fabulous ability in working with dreams. It’s fun and important for me to have a class that supports my creativity--like doing something new, different and creative daily. Sara--you’re very good at giving positive feedback and encouraging people to expand and explore new places. Thanks.”
“This class has been the healthiest thing I’ve done for myself lately. I’ve learned:--to stare my critic in the eye and begin to snuff him out;--to play and let it be OK, not irresponsible; --to nurture my creative spirit in a supportive environment.For this and much more, I thank you. My creative life is changing form your inspiration.”
“Very Positive Uplifting Effect. Freeflow writing is a very helpful technique for me and works great. Doing something new everyday has been happening everyday! Mapping, Drawing and Visualization are good tools for me in handling problems and depression. I feel more creative and positive about my own life.”
“The class was advertised as a writing class but it was really about people. It was about us. It was about knowing yourself well enough to express yourself. It was about knowing others well enough to be able to communicate effectively and with passion. It was about knowing and understanding. It was about writing in a way to relate, to inspire and entertain. And it was about how we all have something very valuable to share.”
“Ms. Sara Deutsch you have captured the complete, undivided attention of your class form the moment of beginning to end of hours. To do so must entail not only, I believe, a great deal of prior preparation plus a dedicated form of desiring to hold the group’s attention. You do it admirably and so in consequence I have come away feeling rewarded, more knowledgeable and desire to learn further from future classes. “
“..The most important part of the class for me was ..by moving toward my fears rather than typically running from them, I learned that my prevalent feelings of inadequacy were erroneous. My writings weren't condemned and although I didn’t share in great quantities, that which I did share was an immensely profitable stepping stone for me.” Tom Pasquale
“Sara--This has been a truly magnificent class! ..You are very talented at modeling and exploring and categorizing and drawing out depths of experience from people..You listen and then key right in on ideas and games and methods of getting even further into healing and knowing ourselves. You work well with groups--You move a plan outward to fit with everyone and are very open to spontaneous flow.”
Sara -
Opening up to anyone is a totally
new experience for me. I've spent my whole life hiding
my feelings thinking I didn't have a right to speak
up. Your class helped me to understand I do have that
right and that there are a lot of different outlets to
use to let go of all that hurt I have built up inside
of me. You gave me tools I will use for the rest of my
life. I am a much better person for having attended
your Creative Journaling class. Thank you again for
all your kindness and instruction.
MEMORY ART, LIFE PORTRAITS and INTERACTIVE FANTASY PORTRAITS
What if your favorite angel had your face? What if you could hold your own child self in your arms? What if you could see your infant, child, teen and mature self all together in a life portrait?
VISIONARY PORTRAITS are visual affirmations which allow you to see your essential beauty. Personal photos are layered with transparent images of your empowering symbols, flowers, animals, spiritual guides, affirmations, poetry, quotes, and art. You may become a warrior, tree spirit, angel, elf...or ? You may ride a tiger, winged wolf or Pegasus.
MEMORY ART & LIFE PORTRAITS The scanner is used as a time machine to integrate photo images of child, adolescent and mature versions of yourself, helping you repattern your feelings, approach to the present and appreciate your unique essence.
Directions: After a telephone consultation, send photographs, art or ideas you want integrated into the portrait, by email or snail mail. I will scan them into my computer and return them to you. You can participate in the creation of the portrait as actively as you wish. I will help you clarify your ideas, choose from a library of collage images and create the final portrait. Prices range from $150-500 depending on the complexity, size and printing of the portrait. The final artwork can be printed on quality paper, canvas, fabric or even tile. You will also receive a CD of the artwork so you can print as many copies as you wish.
Artistic Retouching of Old Photographs
