Mindful Writing

“Everyone has to be the hero of one story: their own,” wrote P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, in the first issue of Parabola. The path of the dharma is a version of what Joseph Campbell called the “Hero’s Journey.” Yet we must each make this path our own.

Join us as we combine mindfulness meditation with short writing exercises geared toward personal reflection, discovering our ways of being heroic, including relaxing and letting go. Creating a safe space together, free from judgment and striving, we will explore how mindfulness can bring us to life, leading us to our own insight and wisdom.

Everyone is welcome. Participants are not required to share their work.

About the Meditation Teacher

Tracy Cochran is a writer and the editorial director of Parabola, a quarterly which for forty years has drawn on the world’s wisdom traditions to explore the questions and themes that all humanity shares. In addition to Parabola, her articles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, and many other publications and anthologies. She teaches mindfulness meditation at the Rubin Museum of Art and throughout the greater New York area.