TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL STORY
Manifest your Deepest Desires in 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

10:00-3:00PM
Santa Cruz Integrative Medicine and Chi Center
Santa Cruz, California

**QiGong Master Lee Holden will conduct a QiGong session during the workshop to reinforce the energetic concepts covered in the Universal Story.

Life is lived (and character revealed) in the answers to three questions:

What do you want?
What is stopping you from attaining it?
What are you willing to do to get it?

Learn the answers to these and other life questions from the Plot Whisperer Martha Alderson, an international plot consultant to writers.

In the same way Alderson guides writers to stand back from all the words of their novels, memoirs and screenplays to see the deeper meaning of their stories, she teaches people how to stand back from the events around you to see into the very heart of your life.

We make up stories in our minds about the events in our lives. The stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the world around us have a direct impact on how we react to new events in our lives. Why is one person is slain by the antagonists that pop up in her life, while another person faced with the same problems is able to make her way forward. Learn about the universality of the story of your life and replace the story you tell yourself from one of threat and opposition to a story of strength and determination. Antagonists are self-created and have authority over you only when you surrender your own personal power.

Do you fight what comes into your life? Do you coast through life unconsciously? When you understand into the power of the universal story, you can direct its course and live a transformed life. Ask yourself, what do you want? What is stopping you? Learn how the universal story can help you achieve your dreams.

After using Alderson’s ideas, you begin to understand yourself better. You see your life in a different light. The ways you interact with yourself, the people in your life and with the world around you shift.

Martha’s new book The Plot Whisperer book: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master (Adams Media of F + W Media 2011) is based on plot consultations with writers from all over the world. Writing is a very personal activity (as well as a very public activity—after all, most writers’ intention is to get published) and a certain intimacy forms between Martha and her clients during plot consultations. As a result, she has been able to draw lessons about how stories unfold to include the lives of the writers with whom she works.

She now expands those lessons to include anyone interested in reclaiming a miraculous and mysterious way of living.

Bring a list of your goals and desires and dreams to this interactive workshop.

**QiGong Master Lee Holden will conduct a QiGong session during the workshop to reinforce the energetic concepts covered in the Universal Story.

Please bring a lunch

The cost is:

  • $125
  • Discount 25% for students or if you register before January 2012

Martha Alderson, M.A., is an international plot consultant for writers and the author of The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master and Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple. Her clients include best-selling authors, Hollywood screenwriters and New York editors. She has taught plot workshops for memoir writers, novelists, and screenwriters privately, through University of Santa Cruz, Learning Annex, Writing Salon, Writers Store, and writing conferences.

The exploration into the universal story is the summation of twenty years of research into the anatomy of stories for plot workshops and Martha’s consulting work with writers as the Plot Whisperer. The more writers she interacts with, the more keenly she feels the universality and interconnectedness of our shared journeys through life.

Join Martha to explore the critical relationship between who you are and who you dream of being.

To reserve a spot now, SIGN-UP for the 2/4th Transformational Workshop, please call 831-465-9088 with a credit card. No on-line registration at this time