Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing

Part III

Facilitating transformative change through creative life writing

 

 

For the majority of students in Group 2 the initial opening-up of the psyche occurs in Course 1 (Writing for Personal Development), with deepening and/or consolidation taking place across the remainder of the programme. For quite a few of them Course 3 (Writing and Groups) is particularly important in taking the process of change further, and for many the two terms of Independent Study are a key period of consolidation. But what are the specific elements within these courses that facilitate the shift from top-down left hemisphere control towards a more flexible and bodily-based self-agency?

In my previous attempts to understand students' experience of change I have ...