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Proprioceptive Writing® is a method for exploring the psyche through writing developed in 1976 by Dr. Linda Trichter Metcalf and Dr. Tobin Simon. Proprioceptive Writing® (PW) is a metacognitive technique that uses the technology of writing to explore the mind. Through a process the method’s creator's call “Inner Hearing” [1] Proprioceptive Writing centers on the act of listening to and reflecting upon one’s thoughts. The method employs Baroque music, is practiced in conditions designed to promote relaxation and focus, and may be practiced alone or in groups.

PW is a metacognitive technique and not a writing process PW is reported to facilitate emotional health, spiritual awakening and creative breakthroughs. Christine Northrup book reference footnote? or delete.

Origins Linda Trichter Metcalf discovered what would later become the Proprioceptive Writing Method in the summer of 1976 while working on her PhD in English Literature from New York University. Influenced by her use of literary criticism’s then current Reader Response theory that focuses solely on the interaction between the text and the reader’s subjective experience, Metcalf began to track her thinking, reading phrase by phrase and writing in long hand every single thought that she was having. She did this for six hours a day for a period of three months. In the process of this written investigation, Metcalf's experience of herself dramatically changed.

Throughout the following years Metcalf continued her work of explaining to herself and to others the experience to her own satisfaction, finding the intellectual roots-looking at/using the work of…thinkers from a variety of disciplines..

History In 1978 Metcalf and Simon left New York City for Rockport, Maine where they began to teach adults. established the first Proprioceptive Writing Center as a non-profit educational center dedicated to the teaching of Proprioceptive Writing. They soon expanded the center to Portland, Maine where they began to develop a curriculum for a PW teacher-certification program which has continued to grow to this day. and offered PW in multiple formats: privately, in groups, as 14-hour weekend intensives, as 5-day retreats, as weekly classes, and as yearly seminars.

In 1996 Metcalf and Simon returned to New York City and opened the second PWCenter. In addition to group teaching began working one on one and early PW online, (as well as developing concept of guided write and using it with groups -Essay Course, Feminism, Holocaust studies. The most important work of these years, Metcalf and Simon complied 20 years of work heretofore transmitted only orally in class settings) making it available to a far wider audience (and unmediated, without a teacher.) Published by Ballantine in 2002, Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice remains in print.

In 2006 Metcalf and Simon moved the PW Center to Oakland, California, where Metcalf continues to teach PW while serving as head of the PW Center teaching faculty and directing the PW teaching program. Since the development of a curriculum for a PW facilitator program and a teacher-certification program, others have begun teaching PW both in the US and internationally. Dissertations, graduate and academic papers have been written about PW at such schools as the Harvard School of Education, the University of Massachusetts, [5] and the University of Southern Maine. at every major US center for holistic studies, including Esalen, Omega, The New York Open Center, Kripalu, and 1440 Multiversity.

Influences PW fits into a Humanist tradition. It can be situated in and adds to larger conversations on Consciousness), Mind, Meditation, Mindfulness as well as Cognitive Psychology and Creativity.  PW is a metacognitive process that employs writing differently from other process-oriented writing techniques popularized by Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron. PW distinguishes itself  by focus on language, not product oriented, reflective gesture…) Ira Progoff ’s Intensive Journal Method and Peter Elbow’s work on free writing —

Metcalf developed a model of mind, Self “Auditory Imagination” Hearing Intelligence leading to her original concepts born in her practical and personal exploration

PW is a metacognitive process that employs writing differently from other process-oriented writing techniques popularized by Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron. PW distinguishes itself by focus on language, not product oriented, reflective gesture…) Ira Progoff ’s Intensive Journal Method and Peter Elbow’s work on free writing —

Metcalf developed a model of mind, Self “Auditory Imagination” Hearing Intelligence leading to her original concepts born in her practical and personal exploration. Not ended

Publications ____________________

Writing the Mind Alive, The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

Writing the Mind Alive is the main PW text. It describes the practice of Proprioceptive Writing while illustrating its use through the analysis of student’s Writes. The Write is the text that results from a Proprioceptive Writing session. Its publication by Ballentine in 2002 allowed the practice of Proprioceptive Writing to gain a wide audience across the globe.

“Where Your Pen Lands”

In this article, Dr Metcalf writes about the concept of “inner hearing,” among other aspects of Proprioceptive Writing.

Feminism and Holistic Health needs more bibliographic

References_______________________

1. Linda Trichter Metcalf, “Where Your Pen Lands” ( Derek:links to: https://kripalu.org/resources/where-your-pen-lands) Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Online.

2. Christiane Northrup, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing (New York, Bantam, 2010) 623-624

3. Reports from Students of Proprioceptive Writing from Writing the Mind Alive (New York, Ballantine, 2002), preceding the title page.

4. Metcalf, Linda Trichter and Simon, Tobin. Writing The Mind Alive, The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice (New York, Ballantine, 2002), 1 - 9.

5. Briggs, Kaitlin. The Individual as a Site of Struggle: Subjectivity, Writing and the Gender Order. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, ProQuest UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1996. 9638934.

Selected bibliography Briggs, Kaitlin. “Honors Students as Philosophers and Detectives.” Honors in Practice, Volume 9 (2013)

Metcalf, Linda Trichter. “Where Your Pen Lands” (links to: https://kripalu.org/resources/where-your-pen-lands) Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Online.

Metcalf, Linda Trichter and Tobin Simon. Writing The Mind Alive, The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice (New York, Ballantine, 2002)

Northrup, Christiane. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing (New York, Bantam, 2010)

Further reading Briggs, Kaitlin. ”Performing Dissident Thinking Through Writing: Using the Proprioceptive Question to Break Out of the Classroom" in Disruptive Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society, Edited by Julie Faulkner, 2012.

Northrup, Christiane. Making Life Easy, pp 70-73. Hay House, 2018. Pennebaker, J. (1990). Becoming healthier through writing. In Opening up: The healing power of confiding in others. New York: William Morrow and Company.

Schlenker, Carmen. “The Power of Words: Proprioceptive Writing Among Women in Mid-life,” Athabasca University, Alberta, 2012.

External links_____________________ • Proprioceptive Writing Home Page Southeast PW Home Page

• Linda Trichter Metcalf, PhD, “Where Your Pen Lands” (Derek: links to: https://kripalu.org/resources/where-your-pen-lands) Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Online.

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