|
Creativity, Our Soul’s Playground
WHO’S IT FOR? Anyone who enjoys creating with art, music,
gardening, cooking, Drama, dance, poetry & prose, clay or camera, and so
on...and so on.
WHAT
WE’LL DO...
-
Identify blocks to creativity and recognize their
antics
-
Dissolve creativity blocks through toning,
breathing, laughter, play, habits and thinking
-
Create sacred space for the divine spark of
creativity to flourish (yes, even in our mad cap modern world).
-
Develop ritualistic practices to signal the world
(and ourselves) that it’s creating time
|
Presenters Carmen Goldthwaite &
SJ Mackenzie...
Carmen
brings her talent and experience
as a writer and her skills as a teacher and her own spiritual
journey laced with mountains and valleys to the collegial settings
of these retreats.
SJ Mackenzie,
a psychotherapist, vocalist in classical, new age and folk
traditions and composer brings her talents in counseling braided
with the spiritual principles of integrative breathwork, musical
journeying and healing with toning. For more information about
her see: web.mac.com/shirleyjeanmackenzie.
|
|
RETREAT DESIGNS
“The Appetizer”—a
4-5 hour session to provide a sampling of the unique blend of
creativity and spirituality that SJ and Carmen present.
Saturday,
October 18, 9:30-4:30, TCU—“Dialogue: Add Grit to your
Characters, Tension to Your Plot.”
In a one day
workshop, create sizzling dialogue and the pictures and language of
context. You’ve created a fascinating character. Now give them an
edge that defines them in the reader’s eye—through dialogue. Strong
dialogue shapes and sharpens the story arc. Bring a manuscript OR
ideas of characters that you’d be willing to practice putting words in
their mouths in this day to retreat to learn and to write. Taught by
Carmen Goldthwaite, author, national magazine writer, columnist, and
writing teacher. Bring a laptop and or other writing materials PLUS a
sack lunch for a working lunch. Register at TCU Extended Education
817-257-7130 or
www.lifelong.tcu.edu.
Wednesday,
October 22, 6-9 p.m., SMU—“The ‘Literature of Reality’” or
Nonfiction. An overview of creative nonfiction and nonfiction writing
for the vast nonfiction market—magazines and newspapers—essays,
reviews, opinions. Become acquainted with techniques of writing the
straight stuff vs. techniques of writing true accounts with the drama
of the fictional storyteller. Explore the differences. Learn what
markets require both of short nonfiction and book length works. Learn
how to “Find the story.”—the slant, angle and focus. That will set a
writer’s work apart from what used to be called the “slush pile.”
CONTACT
Carmen for more information
|
