Learn about Proprioceptive Writing, enroll in "Journey on the Page: An Introduction to Proprioceptive Writing" at Holyoke Community College.
Four Wednesday evenings, October 3, 10, 17 & 24, 6-8 p.m.
Holyoke Community College
CRN 35277 SEC 51
Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory, and emotions. This simple yet profound practice helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy.
A regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment,
this unique method frees the writer within. It will help to:
• Focus awareness and build self-trust
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Awaken the senses and emotions
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process
Instructor Tzivia Gover is an author, educator and certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher.
Non-credit tuition: $109.
For information contact:
Holyoke Community College: (413) 538-7000
www.hcc.edu
Reading and signing Weds. Feb. 15, 7 p.m. at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley.
What: Reading and signing of a book about Holyoke and The Care Center: Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House: A Teacher, Her Students and the Woman Who Inspired Them, by Tzivia Gover (Leveller’s Press, Florence/Amherst Mass., paperback, $18.95)
When: Weds., Feb. 15, 7 p.m.
Where: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St., South Hadley, Mass.
Who: Author Tzivia Gover will discuss her book about her first years teaching poetry at The Care Center, previously home to publisher and politician Elizabeth Towne (1865-1960), and now an innovative and comprehensive GED program for young mothers.
For more information: Contact the Odyssey Bookshop, (413) 534-7307 or Tzivia Gover tzivia.gover[at]gmail.com
"What Do Your Dreams Mean: An introduction to Dream Work"
with Tzivia Gover, C.D.T.
Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Ave., Holyoke, Mass.
non-credit course
4 Wednesday nights, Oct. 12-Nov. 2, 2011, 6-8 p.m.
We spend 1/3 of our lives asleep, and by the time the average person is 80, he or she has had nearly 120,000 dreams! Yet most of us rarely remember our dreams, and if we do we don't know what to make of them. In this class, Tzivia Gover, a certified dream therapist, will help participants understand why we dream, what our dreams mean, and how we can use our dreams to help us in our waking lives.
To register call:
Holyoke Community College(413)538-5815 or (413)538-5817
Got Dreams? It might be a nightmare, a recurring dream that just won't let go or a dream whose message you simply can't figure out. Whatever it is, Tzivia is trained to help you discover the meanings and messages within your dreams.
Private Dream Consultation can help you:
* Gain insight into your dreams
* Improve your ability to recall dreams
* Get to know yourself more deeply
* Access your creativity and find solutions to your problems
Sessions include exploration of a dream, follow-up suggestions and instruction and guidance for understanding dreams on your own. Sessions can be conducted in person (in Western Massachusetts or occasionally in other locations) as well as by telephone or Internet (Skype). Sessions last for up to 50 minutes and start at $45. Prices may vary depending on individual needs, time of sessions, etc.
Contact Tzivia to set up an appointment for one-on-one dream consultation.
New book connects Holyoke Teens to Holyoke’s History
LEARNING IN MRS. TOWNE'S HOUSE by local author Tzivia Gover to be celebrated with reading and signing Wednesday, July 20 at 6PM
What: A Reading and Book Signing to celebrate the publication of LEARNING IN MRS. TOWNE’S HOUSE: A TEACHER, HER STUDENTS AND THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED THEM(Leveller’s Press, Florence/Amherst Mass., paperback, $18.98)
When: Wednesday, July 20, 6 p.m.
Where: Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot St., Holyoke, Mass.
Who: Author Tzivia Gover has written a book about her first years teaching poetry at The Care Center, previously home to publisher and politician Elizabeth Towne (1865-1960), and now an innovative and comprehensive GED program for young mothers.
Cost: $3 admission includes admission to the museum where an exhibit of the contents of a 100-year-old time capsule, recently discovered by Gover and her students in the cornerstone of Mrs. Towne’s former home, is currently on display.
For more information: Contact Wistariahurst Museum, Marjorie Latham, Events Coordinator, (413) 322-5660, LathamM@ci.holyoke.ma.us or
www.levellerspress.com
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could gain insight, understanding and healing while you were asleep? When you learn to listen to and understand your dreams, you can! In this class you will learn to invite, recall, and interpret dreams to gain insight and awareness.
Course Instructor Tzivia Gover is an author and educator. An associate of the Institute for Dream Studies, and a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, she has been leading self-growth workshops for institutions and retreats for nearly a decade. www.tziviagover.com
Non-credit tuition: $109
Four Tuesdays: Oct. 12-Nov. 2, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory, and emotions. This simple yet profound practice helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy.
A regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment,
this unique method frees the writer within. It will help to:
• Focus awareness and build self-trust
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Awaken the senses and emotions
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process
Instructor Tzivia Gover is an author, educator and certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher.
Non-credit tuition: $109.
To register call:
(413) 538-5815 or (413) 538-5817
and use these course description codes: • EXPR 001 •
CRN 35049 SEC 51
Tzivia Gover
www.tziviagover.com
Dream Exploration with Tzivia Gover at Holyoke Community College, four Tuesdays, Sept. 14-Oct. 5, 6-8 p.m.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could gain insight, understanding and healing while you were asleep? When you learn to listen to and understand your dreams, you can!
In this class you will learn to invite, recall, and interpret dreams to gain insight and awareness.
This class is for anyone who is interested in dreams, including those who recall dreams frequently and those who rarely recall a dream.
Course Instructor Tzivia Gover is an author and educator. An associate of the Institute for Dream Studies, and a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, she has been leading self-growth workshops for institutions and retreats for over a decade.
Non-credit tuition: $109
To Register through Holyoke Community College:
Call (413) 538-5815 or (413) 538-5817
and have these numbers handy:
CRN 35049 Section 51
www.hcc.edu
Writing has long been used as a first step in dream work; the written dream report is a commonly regarded as the launching ground for dream analysis. But how we write is far more important than what we write when it comes to knowing our dreams in a meaningful way, says writer and workshop leader, Tzivia Gover.
Gover, a student in the Institute for Dream Studies and member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, teaches new techniques for combining writing and dream work in her upcoming workshop, “Dreaming on the Page: Using Proprioceptive Writing as a tool for Dream Exploration.” The workshop will be presented at the IASD conference in Asheville, North Carolina, June 27-July 1, 2010.
Proprioceptive Writing (PW) is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory and emotions. This technique, when used as a regular practice, helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy. PW combines focused attention and the use of a mantra-like question to excavate and expose personal meaning and to amplify thoughts and dream images. PW also engages the auditory imagination, helping people to cultivate the skill of deep listening.
Combining this method of writing with dream work, allows us to question and come to know the dream more intimately and more viscerally, says Gover, who is a certified Proprioceptive Writing instructor. By doing so we have the opportunity to channel our energy into our waking experiences.
Through Proprioceptive Writing, we become still and quiet so that we can receive impulses from the field of unconscious awareness. As we stay in this open, awake and aware state, we turn our attention toward the thoughts that emerge. We don’t choose or direct these thoughts, but rather receive them. By “saying” on paper what we “hear” in our minds during this process, we participate in making these energies manifest. Through listening to our internal process and capturing it in writing we bring material from the unconscious into the stream of conscious thought, as described by William James.
As Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson writes in Inner Work: “When the image speaks, it is with one of our own inner voices. When we answer back, it is the unseen inner part of our own self that listens and registers.”
Writing and dreaming seem to have a natural affinity for one another; each amplifying the complementary characteristics of the other. Writing clothes the images and energies of the unconscious in words, as dreams clothe them in color, character, image and drama.
When we not only write, but write in the state of receptivity and awareness that PW cultivates, we hold the messages of the unconscious in our conscious attention long enough to know them in a truly transformative way, says Gover. Then the conscious mind can interact with otherwise amorphous and intangible systems of thought and energy and the mysterious dramas of the dream world. The written line thus becomes a story, a trail to follow, inward, ever deeper; bringing our conscious faculties to the realms of the unconscious.
For more information on Writing and Dream Work with Tzivia Gover visit www.tziviagover.com; for information about the upcoming IASD conference and Gover’s workshop visit www.asdreams.org
Four Thursday evenings, April 8, 15, 22 & 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Holyoke Community College
CSS 361
CRN 15303 SEC 51
Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory, and emotions. This simple yet profound practice helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy.
A regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment,
this unique method frees the writer within. It will help to:
• Focus awareness and build self-trust
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Awaken the senses and emotions
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process
Instructor Tzivia Gover is an author, educator and certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher.
Non-credit tuition: $109.
For information contact:
Holyoke Community College: (413) 538-7000
www.hcc.edu
To Register:
(413) 538-5815 or (413) 538-5817
Please have ready the CRN course number, section number, day and time, as listed above.
Sun. Feb 28th, 2010, 2-5pm
at Mama Nirvana's New Yoga
384 Main St. (rte 10)
Easthampton, MA 01027
(413) 527-7705
$36 paid by Feb 21; $45 after
Register at www.mamanirvana.com
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Whether you recall your dreams regularly, or on rare occasion, whether you are mystified by them or intrigued, your dreams are trying to communicate with you. This workshop will provide a fun, safe and relaxed environment, in which you will learn to remember, invite and interpret dreams using a variety of techniques. We will discuss ways to use these skills to help integrate and harmonize disparate aspects of consciousness, thereby improving feelings of peace and well-being.
Please join Tzivia Gover and a host of fabulous poets at:
The Florence Poetry Society’s Outdoor Festival
Sunday October 4, 2009
Pines Theater, Look Park in Florence.
Free! (but there is a small fee for parking at Look Park)
The festival runs from 1-5.
*Tzivia will be reading a selection of Dream Poems at about 1:30 p.m.* (visit www.allthesnoozethatsfittoprint.wordpress.com to read some of Tzivia's Dream Poems)
Other poets on the bill are Laura Rodley, Leslea Newman,
Maria Arroyo, Lea Banks, Lea Rogers Rich and Jim DuBois. In addition there will be musical interludes and free refreshments.
Journey on the Page
Proprioceptive Writing® with Tzivia Gover
2nd Tuesday of the Month, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Nov. 10, Dec. 8, Jan. 12, Feb. 9
$65 for 4 Sessions
Holyoke Location (Highlands neighborhood)
To pre-register: tzivia[at]tziviagover.com
Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory and emotions. This writing practice will help you synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy.
Proprioceptive Writing® is a regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment. This unique method frees the writer within and helps to:
• Focus awareness and build self-trust
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Awaken the senses and emotions
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process
Tzivia Gover is a certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher. Email tzivia [at] tziviagover.com to register.
Sundays, 6-8pm: Oct 4, Oct 25, Nov 8, Nov 22, Dec 6, 2009
at Mama Nirvana’s New Yoga Studio, 384 Main St # 3, Easthampton, MA
$135 paid by Sept. 30; $150 after
For more information or to register contact Mama Nirvana: 1-877-NEW-YOGA
or info@mamanirvana.com
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could improve your physical and emotional health while you sleep? When you learn to listen to and understand your dreams, you can! From ancient Greeks who made pilgrimages to dream temples to 21st century women and men who turn to psychotherapy, people have long looked to dreams for guidance and honored their healing potential.
In "Listening to Dreams; Healing our Lives," you will learn to recall, invite and interpret dreams and gain emotional and physical healing. Each session will include dream sharing and exploration. In addition you will learn a contemplative writing technique to deepen your dreamwork.
Each session will focus on a different technique and/or topic to help you to develop your own transformational dreamwork practice.
Tzivia Gover, author of Mindful Moments for Stressful Days (Storey Books) has been leading self-growth workshops for institutions and retreats (including Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA) for nearly a decade. A certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher, she is also a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and is the creator of 350 Dreamers (www.350dreamers.wordpress.com), a worldwide network of dreamers working for global healing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
CSS 361 • 4 sessions
CRN 35375 SEC 51 Sep 15, 22, 29, Oct 6 T 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory,
and emotions. Helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy.
Proprioceptive Writing® is not formal writing, nor is it automatic or stream-of-consciousness writing. A regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment,
this unique method frees the writer within. It will help to:
• Focus awareness and build self-trust
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Awaken the senses and emotions
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process
Instructor Tzivia Gover is an author, educator and certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher.
Non-credit tuition: $109.
For information contact:
Holyoke Community College: (413) 538-7000
www.hcc.edu
To Register:
(413) 538-5815 or (413) 538-5817
Register by telephone by using MasterCard, VISA, or Discover. Please have ready the CRN course number, section number, day and time. Allow two-three business
days for processing, as this is an independent answering service.
March 14, 2009, 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Forbes Library, Northampton, MA, Watson Room
To register call Lisa Downing, 413-587-1017
http://www.forbeslibrary.org
Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows participants to know themselves more fully by exploring on paper the territory of their minds, memories, and emotions.
“Proprioception” comes from the Latin, proprius, meaning “one’s own,” and this writing method, pioneered by Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D. and Tobin Simon, Ph.D., helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy. Proprioceptive Writing® is not formal writing, nor is it automatic or stream-of-consciousness writing. A regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment, the method uses several aids to deepen attention and free the writer within: Baroque music, a candle, a pad, and a pen.
Proprioceptive Writing® can help:
o Focus awareness, dissolve inhibitions, and build self-trust
o Unburden your mind and resolve emotional conflicts
o Connect more deeply with your spiritual self
o Write and speak with strength and clarity
o Enhance the benefits of psychotherapy
o Awaken your senses and emotions
o Liberate your creative energies
o Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
o Focus and deepen the though process
In this workshop, you will be introduced to the method and philosophy of Proprioceptive Writing®, and you will have a chance to experience a Write.
Those interested will have the opportunity to sign up for a six-week Proprioceptive Writing® class with Tzivia Gover beginning the first week in April.
Tzivia Gover is an author, educator and certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher. For more information visit www.tziviagover.com or email tzivia@tziviagover.com
Recommended Reading: Writing the Mind Alive by Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon. Visit http://www.pwriting.org/ to order the book and for more information about Proprioceptive Writing®.
o Learn tips and strategies for maintaining calm and focus during stressful times
o Learn breathing techniques and simple exercises to calm your mind and relax your body
o Set your intention for inner joy, peace and contentment
o Sessions tailor-made to suit your needs, just $45
Contact Tzivia Gover, tzivia{AT}tziviagover{dot}com to find out about individual Mindful Moments coaching.
WHERE: Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass.
WHEN: Saturday September 13, 2008; 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM
TO REGISTER: Call the Forbes Library at: 413-587-1011
Author and educator Tzivia Gover believes that writing can and should be fun, easy and deeply satisfying. Her favorite students are the ones who
say: "I can't (or won't or don't) write." That is because she knows that everyone can access the magic and joy of putting pen to paper for self-expression, healing, communication and discovery.
Participants in Don't Call it Poetry: Writing for the fun of it will have the opportunity to:
. Read and write poems together in a fun and supportive atmosphere;
. Replace fear of poetry with inspiration and enthusiasm;
. Play with writing both in form and informally;
. Discover writing as a vehicle for self-expression, self-discovery and
serious fun!
This workshop has limited seating. Pre-registration is required by calling 413-587-1011 or stopping by the main desk. Registration preference will be given to those that have never taken a writing workshop at Forbes Library before.
Come to Big Sur, relax, renew and reflect on your role as mother, daughter or both at this weekend retreat. Together we will use mindfulness techniques to add increased meaning and joy to our relationships as mothers and daughters.
This workshop is appropriate for any woman who wants to deepen her understanding of herself as a mother and/or daughter.
ON Wednesday, Oct. 3, 6 p.m., Tzivia Gover will discuss: Elizabeth Towne: Holyoke’s Pioneering Woman in Politics, Publishing and Positive Thinking at Wistariahurst Museum.
Tzivia, publisher of the Nautilus II, journal of poetry and art by teen mothers, will talk about her research on Elizabeth Towne.
Light refreshments will be provided. Admission is $3. Sponsored by Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot Street, Holyoke, Mass. Visit www.wistariahurst.org or call (413) 322-5660
BORN in 1865, Elizabeth Towne was the daughter of one of Oregon’s earliest pioneers. In 1900, at age 35, she reversed her father’s footsteps and headed east to Holyoke, where she became a pioneer in her own right.
A teen mother with little formal education, Towne grew to be an independent thinker and an early feminist. She divorced her first husband and supported herself by publishing The Nautilus, a journal about positive thinking and mental healing which attracted international attention. Towne went on to become Holyoke’s first female city councilor and first female candidate for mayor.
Author and educator Tzivia Gover learned about Towne while she was working as a poetry teacher at The Care Center, an innovative GED program for teen mothers, which now occupies Towne’s former Holyoke home. Gover now publishes a journal of her students’ poems, which is named Nautilus II, after Towne’s magazine.
Friday, March 16, 2007, 12 noon at The Care Center, 247 Cabot St., Holyoke, MA - Historical Perspectives: Elizabeth Towne: Holyoke's Pioneering Woman in Politics, Publishing and Positive Thinking. Tzivia Gover, publisher of the Nautilus II, journal of poetry and art by teen mothers, will talk about her research on Elizabeth Towne. The event will take place in Mrs. Towne's former home, the CARE Center, 247 Cabot Street. Bring lunch! Coffee will be provided. Admission is $3. Sponsored by Wistariahurst Museum; visit www.wistariahurst.org
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 7 p.m. at Broadside Books, 247 Main St., Northampton, MA. - Tzivia Gover will read from her essay, "Jill and Jill Live on the Hill, but One Must Boil the Water," which was published in the anthology MODERN LOVE:50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion. The essay originally appeared in the New York Times Sunday Styles section. Visit http://broadside.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
Monday, September 25, 2006, 7:30 p.m. at Jester's Cafe, 124 Elm Street (route 10/202), Westfield - COMMUNITY VOICES POETRY OPEN MIC: Tzivia Gover will be the featured guest at this community reading. She will read from her chapbook, Dream House: Poems on the theme of home. Come and listen and/or bring a poem of your own to read at the open mic! To learn about this and other area readings visit www.poetrynewsonline.blogspot.com
Thursday, April 27, 2006, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Holyoke Public Library - HOME IS WHERE THE POEMS ARE:This community poetry event will inspire participants to use poetry to explore the varied meanings of “home.” The project will consist of a poetry reading and writing workshop at the Holyoke Public Library to be led by poet and educator Tzivia Gover, author of Dream House, a chapbook of poems about home. Visit www.holyokelibrary.org.
Monday December 5:
Tzivia Gover will read her poem "Yarn," published in the anthology KNITLIT THE THIRD: WE SPIN MORE YARNS at Barnes and Noble at Holyoke Crossing on Monday, December 5 at 6 p.m.
Wednesday November 30:
Tzivia Gover will read from her book MINDFUL MOMENTS FOR STRESSFUL DAYS and share commonsense suggestions for approaching everyday events with a conscious attitude during an appearance at the Holyoke Public Library (www.holyokelibrary.org), Wednesday November 30, 2005 at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 6, 2005:
Tzivia Gover will be among the featured writers reading from, "KnitLit The Third: We Spin More Yarns," Thursday, October 6, 7 p.m. at the Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Gover's Poem, "Yarn" is included in the anthology about knitting. For directions to Odyssey Bookshop visit http://www.odysseybks.com/directions.html
Saturday, August 13, 2005: Author Tzivia Gover and artist Joanne Yoshida will celebrate the publication of DREAM HOUSE, their limited edition hand-bound chapbook of poems with a reading and signing on Long Island. For information email inotherwordsink@comcast.net
Thursday, July 7, 2005:
A reading by Tzivia Gover in celebration of the recent publication of her poetry chapbook, DREAM HOUSE, will take place Thursday, July 7, 7 p.m. at the Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, South Hadley, Massachusetts. The book’s designer, Aja Riggs, formerly of Northampton and Hatfield, will be a featured guest. For directions to Odyssey Bookshop visit http://www.odysseybks.com/directions.html
Author and educator Tzivia Gover is available to speak and lead workshops on a variety of topics including POETRY FOR A PURPOSE: Using Poetry in Nontraditional Settings and MINDFUL MOMENTS FOR STRESSFUL DAYS: How to be Fully Present in Daily Life. For details about workshops or to set up a speaking engagement, send an email to: tzivia@tziviagover.com
