Writing & Poetry
Expressive Journaling: Tending the Fire Within
With Jenn Forgie
"I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back..." —Oriah Mountain Dreamer, "The Invitation" Designed to ignite your vision, spark creativity, and fuel your soul, […]
Write From Your Heart
With Susan Musgrave
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” - attributed to the Dalai Lama. It is hard work, when we are grieving, not to suffer; suffering — personal and universal — has become a condition of how we live. Writing, especially poetry, fiction, journaling and memoir, has always been a place where we can count on being […]
Freedom Begins with Letting Go
With Chelene Knight
Join award-winning writer and creative practitioner Chelene Knight for a transformative journey into letting go and deepening your understanding of self. Through emotionally rich and immersive activities, such as letter writing, discovering personal connections in meaningful objects, guided meditations, and discussions on abstract ideas like love, loss, and grief explored through literary greats such as […]
Tapping the Stream: Summer Writing Retreat
With Shaena Lambert and Betsy Warland
Tapping the Stream is a 6-day writing retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers. This unique retreat combines self-directed writing time, a one-on-one session with both Betsy and Shaena, several morning craft intensives (focusing on subjects […]
Science, Art, Sound & The Sacred
With Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake and Rupert Sheldrake
Explore the entanglements between science, art, sound, and the sacred in a beautiful, wild setting. Our imaginations are a critically important superpower and perhaps our primary means of survival. In this workshop, we will spend time both indoors and outdoors -- in gardens, on seashores and in forests -- connecting with the more-than-human world and […]
Writing with Intuition: A Journey into Creative Consciousness
With Sarah Selecky
Join author and creative intuitive Sarah Selecky to learn the magical art of writing from your whole self, using intellect and intuition at once. These skills live in the heart of story and poetry, yet they're rarely taught in traditional writing programs. While academic courses focus on craft and technique, they often overlook the mystical […]
Between the Human Animal & The Animate Earth
With David Abram
How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between ourselves and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The deepening contortions of climate change – intensifying droughts, monster floods, flaring wildfires and heart-wrenching geopolitical cataclysms – all ensure that our species is tumbling toward a sea change of immense […]
Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection
With Samantha Parton and Leah Abramson
The Harmony Within workshop explores songwriting as a journey of soulful reconnection to our creative source, and to self. Harnessing the power of music and words and focused, creative intention, we seek to illuminate, transform, and transcend what lies within. Over the course of this immersive retreat, participants will learn to effectively articulate the hidden […]