ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses collaborative practice and explores how writing can enhance ability to activate and magnify witness consciousness, also known simply as awareness, and what that means in terms of the ways people attend to one another, to themselves, and to the world. In the collaborative practice that people have developed, however, they have found that writing together can amplify the witnessing capacity. Meditating alone is a practice of witnessing the mind, of training the mind. The terms meditating, and contemplation, like all words, have multiple meanings. Witness consciousness creates a protected workspace, the laboratory of the soul, within which raw and undigested emotions can be cooked and worked on. By virtue of witness consciousness, emotions become safer in the sense that they arise within a sturdy and non-reactive container, without threatening to become foul or explode. Loving-kindness and compassion are expressed in and also beyond the actual writing witnessing practice.
