RESOURCES [all here > click on links to read or view]:
> article on WRITING & HEALTH by James Pennebaker [ = guidelines to follow this week]
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/pennebak#writing-health
> video on SELF-AUTHORING, James Pennebaker [1:21, watch portions that interest you]
https://www.selfauthoring.com/james-pennebaker
> essay on SUBTEXT by Dori Ostermiller
> click names to read blogs by some of the writers featured in the FURY anthology, about how they came to write their essay and their writing process, including SIDESTEPPING PROFESSIONAL DETACHMENT WHEN WRITING ABOUT TRAUMA AND USING STRUCTURE TO SHAPE MEMORIES [see especially Reema Zaman and Alison K. Williams]
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/a-week-of-fury/amp/
> read one author’s pandemic experience in Hubei, China, through a window:
https://paper-republic.org/pubs/read/view-from-a-window/
> app that lets you SCREAM INTO ICELANDIC WILDERNESS:
“2020 has been a lot — and Iceland is ready to help. The tourist board has developed an app that lets you record a scream, pent up by the pandemic, then broadcasts it from speakers in the Icelandic wilderness! I seriously love this country and its quirky magic more and more each day**
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/17/892195741/app-lets-you-destress-by-screaming-into-icelandic-wilderness
> also see PDF attached below on “Collective Consciousness and Cultural Healing”
> WATCH Pennebaker video
> READ articles
> writing practice
> SCENE = psyche [“the mind, soul, or spirit, as opposed to the body; the center of thought, feeling, and motivation, consciously and unconsciously”]
THE IDEA:
1. to read, write, and feel your way through any kind of trauma you may be ready, willing, and able to express in writing
2. kinds of trauma might include your pandemic year highlights, lowlights, and takeaways; personal stories from childhood, adolescence, or recently; your experience of collective trauma due to war, political upheavals, state-sponsored brutality, or inherited ancestral trauma; or other
3. to write yourself telling one of these stories out loud, to move it out of your body OR to reflect on the process and how it made you feel, what you learned from it, anything else you want to say
I am an Asian student. Please think of a story that fits this personality. Please complete this article according to all the above requirements.
