Winter/Spring 2012 Workshops
Awakening Love and Compassion: An Overnight Retreat
The cultivation of love and compassion often begins with acknowledging the inherent goodness at the core of ourselves. How we engage that inherent goodness shapes the ways we accept ourselves and reach out toward others. What does this kind of deep friendliness look like? How might we bring more of our goodness to the world? And how might we acknowledge the goodness in others?
During this Women’s Retreat we will explore this theme and these questions through meditation, visualization, exercises, playfulness, and sharing with others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Saturday, February 11 - Sunday, February 12
First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon
Jump Start Your Memoir
Are there stories about your life that you have wanted to write? Have you been challenged to find the time or the inspiration to just get to it? This 3 hour workshop will provide an introduction to memoir writing and a few tools and resources to get you on the writing track.
Thursday, February 9, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon
Writing Your Way through Life Transitions
The writing process is a wonderful way to help navigate along the path of a life transition. Through writing exercises, group discussion and material on stages of transitions, participants will explore ways to call on their writing to enrich and enhance their transition experience.
Thursday, February 9, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon
Writing with Spirit
Whether your spiritual life is religious in nature, cobbled from eclectic, intensely personal beliefs, or falls somewhere in-between, writing with intent deepens your engagement with the world you live in and brings insight to the way you live in it. Participants in this class will explore their spiritual paths during a day of meditation, readings, writing exercises, and group discussion.
Saturday, March 3, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
The Writer's Center of Indiana
For more information or to register contact the Writer's Center:
http://www.indianawriters.org/singleclasses.html
Writing Your Way through Life Transitions
Change can be difficult. It upsets our routines and ways of being. Yet, change also brings opportunities for growth. It opens up new possibilities for a future we may not have imagined. Writing is a resource that can deepen the transition experience and help navigate through the changes with meaning and purpose.
Through writing exercises, group discussion and material on stages of transitions, participants will explore ways to call on their writing to enrich and enhance their transition experience.
Saturday, April 21, 9:00 a.m.-12 p.m.
The Writer's Center of Indiana
For more information or to register contact the Writer's Center:
http://www.indianawriters.org/singleclasses.html