Catherine Ann Jones
The Way of Story
Integrative approaches to writing narrative
Monday-Friday
9:00-11:30 AM
RM 3-103
The Way of Story offers an integrative approach to writing narrative—both fiction and nonfiction—including plays, screenplays, short stories, novels, and memoir.“We’ve become lopsided living only in our heads.Writing, in order to serve the soul, must integrate outer craft with the inner world of intuition and feeling.”
Message to Students
Pen & paper, and courage are required of my students. If it’s your first time attending the conference, remember there is no one way to write, just as there is no one way to live your life. Discover and honor your own process.
Bio
Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. After playing major roles in over 55 plays on and off Broadway, she became disappointed by the lack of good roles for women and wrote a play, On the Edge, about Virginia Woolf and her struggle with madness in a world gone mad, Hitler, and WWII. The play won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Eleven of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical), The Women of Cedar Creek, and Freud’s Oracle, have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards and Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel. A Fulbright Research Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught at The New School University in NYC, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the Esalen and Omega Institutes, and many venues abroad. Her books, The Way of Story: the Craft & Soul of Writing, Heal Your Self with Writing, What Story Are You Living, Freud’s Oracle, True Fables: Stories from Childhood, Buddha and the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life, East & West: Stories of India (2024), and Remarkable Women: Four Plays (2024). Based in Ojai, CA, she leads The Way of Story, Heal Your Self with Writing, and Writing Your Memoir workshops throughout the U.S. Europe, Middle East and Asia. Over 60,000 have subscribed to her six Daily OM online courses. For blog, interviews, workshop schedule, online courses, psychic readings, and writing consultations visit www.wayofstory.com
Writing Tip I Live By
Write from within.
