As we write toward wholeness, we are writing toward oneness, to one community, to one world, the world we want for our children, a world of peace, of justice, of love. C.G. Jung saw the absolute importance of this wholeness: “The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do.” 

Today our world is broken. We see destruction all around us. We have lost our sense of oneness. The whole has fallen apart. Yet this is the world that Rebecca Solnik, author of Light in the Darkness, sees as “a single garment of destiny.”    

There is no alternative to persevering…. You are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.

To contribute to this single garment of humanity, we first must be whole ourselves.  Only then can we create wholeness around ourselves, weaving still larger our single garment. When enough of humankind, when enough of us, become whole, the world itself will become whole.

The workshop will have three parts, with a writing exercise and sharing after each.

1. How has wholeness been understood throughout the centuries? 

2. How can we approach our longing for wholeness through writing? 

3. How can we contribute to wholeness in our broken world today? 

I invite you to join me for this workshop. All are welcome!

Susan Tiberghien, American writer living in Geneva, is the author of four memoirs, two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life and Writing Toward Wholeness, and most recently the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer. For twenty years, she has been teaching at C.G. Jung Societies, the International Women’s Writing Guild, and writers’ centers and conferences in Europe and the U.S. She recently recorded three online master classes for the Jung Society of Washington. Susan founded and directed the Geneva Writers’ Group for 25 years. www.susantiberghien.com