4/23/2010 - WRITING AND METAPHOR at Jung Society of Washington

What: Workshop
Who: Susan Tiberghien
When: Friday
Fees: $30.00, members in advance; $40.00, nonmembers, $25.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

When we find metaphors in our writing, they help us discover the deeper meaning of our life experiences. In this workshop we will first look at how metaphor has been used in literature, with examples from Plato's Dialogues to C.G.Jung's Red Book. Then we will look at excerpts from contemporary authors to see how they use metaphor to illuminate their work. In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard depicts the natural world as a metaphor of the Spirit, leading the reader into nature's silence. There will be guided writing exercises in all three forms of nonfiction: journals, personal essays, and memoirs.

Susan M. Tiberghien, an American writer living in Switzerland, has published three memoirs - Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, Encounter with Silent Prayer; and Footsteps, A European Album - along with numerous narrative essays in journals and anthologies in the USA and in Europe. Her fourth book, One Year to A Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft, was published by Da Capo (Perseus Books) in September, 2007. Susan teaches at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, at writers' conferences, and at the monthly Geneva Writers' Workshops; she has been a workshop director for the International Women's Writing Guild since 1990. A member of International PEN and of the International Writers' Residence at the Château de Lavigny, she directs the Geneva Writers' Group and the biennial Geneva Writers' Conferences. She is the founding editor of the review Offshoots: Writing from Geneva. Her website is www.susantiberghien.com http://www.susantiberghien.com.