Writing Therapy

Lesson 4: Shaping the Feelings

Audience

Lesson Four, Section Three: The Audience

Just as in a work of art and with a poem, the audience is an integral part of a feeling or health gesture. For example, if you are angry you’re often angry at someone and how you communicate that feeling is an important part of the communication process. Even if you think you are silent and saying nothing it often turns out that you ar communicating.

Metzger talks about seeing and then believing what we see (or putting your body into it). She then says that “the creative can bridge the gap between the inner and the public worlds, between daily life and the world of the spirit (Writing for Your Life).” We are now in this public or spiritual world. You might like to try out your “public” displays with a small and safe audience before trying them elsewhere.

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