Joyful death writing may not be an oxymoron
Curious to test this for yourself? Come listen: I’m joining the wise, galvanising founder of Stoic Salon, Kathryn Koromilas for a 25-minute dialogue on Facing Finitude and I’d love you to join us.
Kathryn created 28 Days Joyful Death Writing with the Stoics, an online writing programme I had the pleasure of studying for my MSc in Psychology.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology published my study this past June. Use the button below or comment if you’d like me to share the “friends&family” PDF provided by the publisher.)
I now encourage coaching and therapy clients to try their hand at Stoic reformulation the KK-way. A chapter I co-wrote describing Stoic writing to clinicians will appear next spring in a volume called Practical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Illness: Beyond DSM and ICD Diagnosing, published by Ethics International Press.
Forays to Face Finitude
Both life and professional research has drawn me into mortality confrontations, and hand-on-heart, I can say life is richer for it. In my dialogue with Kathryn, I’ll be sharing aspects of these confrontations, and see what resonance they have with Stoic death contemplation.
Stoic contemplation, communitas, and creative action
This is Kathryn’s and my subtitle, and we aim to discuss each theme therein. Creative action includes poeming - an activity I began doing as soon as Kathryn introduced me to her form of Stoic copywork.
Being shown by Kathryn how to take a passage by an ancient Stoic like Seneca or Marcus Aurelius and reformulate my own response ignited my writing.
Visit previous issues of this peripateic e-newsletter to read my poems.