New York, NY

The Interdependence Project Writing Group bridges our meditation and writing practices. Our methodology is to keep the pen moving -- a conscious engagement with writing, simply and beautifully, as process. Practice teaches us to separate creator from editor and allows us to explore the raw, fecund nature our first thoughts and spontaneity without judgment or expectation.

Like meditation, our personal writing practice can serve as another means to explore our minds in an authentic, in-the-moment kind of way. Our meetings are a supportive forum for writers and meditators to explore their personal creative processes together. The monthly, three-hour sessions include sitting meditation, a variety of timed writing prompts and exercises and sharing our work.

In Buddhist iconography, the mirror represents the sense of sight, which enables us to see clearly, piercing through illusion to perceive pure consciousness. In western culture, Lewis Carroll characterized Alice's awakening to alternate dimensions as a journey through the looking glass.

Join us as we practice the art of life drawing and experience the present moment through visual perception. We will begin class with a short meditation session.

Open to all experience and age levels. People with limited drawing experience are encouraged to experiment with the drawing process as a way to get in touch with your personal process of perception.

Check out the practices below to bring Integral Actvism into your own life and get involved in the intitiative here at the I.D. Project.

5 Minute Practice - remember to carry your re-usable bag with you at all times; explain why you’re choosing not to use plastic (or paper) bags at the check out counter.

The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world -- more than China, more than India, more than the 26 largest European populations combined. The US also incarcerates people at a greater rate than any other country – greater than Iran, Cuba or South Africa. There are more than 2,319,000 people in jails or prisons in the US.