BLACK HOLES
birthing stars
BLACK HOLES
birthing stars
An 8-week Container That Focuses on Emergence and the Daoist Wood Element Through Writing
SELF-PACED ONLINE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP SERIES
“Mimi Young believes there’s a powerful creative current running through us… Learn how to tap into that energy.”
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WRITE WHO YOU ARE BECOMING INTO BEING
We’re evolving into new versions of ourselves, yet the familiar often keeps us stagnant, avoiding change. Embracing the Unknown and vulnerability is where our humanity shines. As intuitives, healers, or creatives, do we also tend to ‘stay safe’ or chained to the familiar, or rely on our past identities to avoid re-creating and redefining our life’s most current becomingness? Are we willing to spill over our current form, and see our fear of the Unknown as fuel for growth and affirmation of life?
Black Holes Birthing Stars is a recorded online creative writing workshop series for self-paced study that invites each of us to approach renewal and creativity with willingness and openness as we harness the Wood Element in Daoist philosophy. Relating with the animated word, these allies welcome us to make kin and ritualize the themes of:
Change
Emergence
Release of duality
Courage
The imaginal
Reconnect with your artistry through written (and spoken) word. Reclaim the freedom to relate with the tangible and intangible, shaping narratives, and leaning into intuition to chart new paths.
BLACK HOLES BIRTHING STARS IS TAOIST-ROOTED WRITING
How does Taoism impact the world today? Opposites, like the poles of the Earth, aren’t adversaries; they coexist, naturally providing the necessary magnetism for our planet’s function. In Taoist philosophy, this duality isn’t about opposition but about how different elements support the entirety.
It’s a different perspective from the Western notion of opposition. The Western mindset often gravitates towards creating adversaries, constructing a dichotomy where one side is exalted and the other vilified—a narrative that elevates one’s standing by belittling the other. Or put it another way, it’s a mechanism to self-justify the horrors of extractive mechanisms. It’s a distortion, reflecting exceptionalism and colonist thinking, and a refusal to acknowledge the interdependence of all elements. This view of conflict-based duality will only produce more conflict.
In Taoism, it’s about acknowledging differences while contributing to the collective whole. Each part, though distinct, is essential for the existence of the other—a beautiful and symbiotic relationship.
Part of this recorded creative writing series re-imagines what polarity could look like without cancelling the other, and in fact, suspending the view of ‘other’, and bringing them home as kin. The light of the Yang and the shade of the Yin offer a magnetism that allows Earth to be Earth. Lore suggests that Yin was once used to refer to the shady side of a mountain, and Yang to the sunny side of the same mountain. It’s either co-existing or no one exists at all.
In this way, Taoist philosophy has real-world impact. Yin Yang principles lay down necessary foundations for decolonized perspectives and a return to diversity in a fuller sense, where each has a role within the whole.
Black Holes Birthing Stars creative writing series explores these notions in how we think, how we imagine, how we show up as human beings, and more importantly, as human becomings.
Key Creative Writing Topics Covered
Locating Our Black Holes
Our Source, Our Yin
We Are All Fools
The Imaginal > Imaginative
Acceptance
Black Holes Humming
The Role of Thunder
Disruption as Creativity
Permission to Change
Elements that Support the Wood Element
expanded writing topics
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Our Source, Our Yin
We Are All Fools
The Imaginal > Imaginative
Acceptance
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The Role of Thunder
Disruption as Creativity
Permission to Change
Elements that Support the Wood Element
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A Way of Being
Parameters + Discipline as Pleasure
What Are Good Ideas
The Role of Filters
Closing the Loop?
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Channeling Creative Voices
Body as Land, Body as Words
Writing Your New Container
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Words As Constellation
Intuitive Mapping
Sovereignty in the Unfamiliar
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Trying All
Creativity is not Productivity
Creativity as Fruitfulness
Non-Competition, Non-Adversary
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Elements that Deplete the Wood Element
Time and Spaciousness
Guarding Your Energy
Witnessing + Celebrating
“A WORD AFTER A WORD AFTER A WORD IS POWER.”
— Margaret Atwood
The Black Holes Birthing Stars Series dispels the status quo and the stagnant, up-ends your ‘givens’, offering tools for vitalizing your present, empowering writing techniques, potent esoteric practices, and dynamic collaboration with intuition and Mystery grounded in daily life. It challenges the notion of resting on past laurels, the reliance on ‘how it’s always been done’, or ceaselessly producing without honoring our genuine, creative voices.
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INVESTMENT
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE THROUGH PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP IS AVAILABLE
BEFORE YOU APPLY: In an effort to ensure that my community care funds are directed to the individuals who need it most, please note that Partial Ceremonie Scholarships are NOT meant for folks who can comfortably meet survival needs, own assets or investments, or have financial / class privileges.
Ceremonie is humbled to offer metaphysical scholarships, known as Partial Ceremonie Scholarships, available in limited quantities and reserved for those encountering obstacles or systemic biases hindering sufficient income for survival. I extend this invitation to individuals facing financial challenges, including those from marginalized racial, ethnic, and LGBTQIA+ communities, individuals with diverse neurological or physical abilities, single parents, or anyone else facing extenuating circumstances, to apply by completing my contact form.
Proof of financial hardship will not be asked.
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