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Writing from Center: A thursday morning writing devotion
with Dawn Thompson via Zoom
Dates: January 16th - March 13th 2025Time: 10:00am-12:15pmCost: $300
"Thank you for creating this sacred pathway for our sharing, as women, as glowing stars, as wild writers in the wilderness of hope."
~Lynn Sherman, Writing from Center Participant
“The magic of writing practice is you start where you are – observing, remembering, listening – and this simple act of being where you are leads, inevitably, to a place you didn’t know you needed to go to, but in following the thread you go a little deeper into understanding.”
~Erin Lee Gafill, “Drinking from a Cold Spring: A Little Book of Hope”
~Erin Lee Gafill, “Drinking from a Cold Spring: A Little Book of Hope”
These days, we all long for connection. Connection with our deeper self and connection with one another. Devoting yourself to a writing practice is a powerful way to foster connection with the larger human story, with your personal stories and with your capacity for creation, vision and inner peace.
The page is a room of your own where you can listen for parts of yourself that are calling, where you have space to contemplate your lived experience and where you can access the compass of your poetic heart.
In this weekly on-line workshop, inspiring prompts are provided as doorways into the writing. These prompts invite your critical mind to step aside in order to allow the great wisdom of your authentic voice and your imagination to rise to the surface.
When you write in community and have the opportunity to listen to other women's stories, you enter the encouraging realm of our shared humanity. You gather essential tools as a writer and receive the medicine of being deeply heard. In community, your writing becomes stronger, more honest, full of vision and heart.
No previous writing experience is necessary. This circle offers space for creative expression for women of all ages and backgrounds. For more information or to sign up please contact Dawn at: dawnrenethompson@gmail.com or 503.568.6145. Image: mymind/Unsplash
The page is a room of your own where you can listen for parts of yourself that are calling, where you have space to contemplate your lived experience and where you can access the compass of your poetic heart.
In this weekly on-line workshop, inspiring prompts are provided as doorways into the writing. These prompts invite your critical mind to step aside in order to allow the great wisdom of your authentic voice and your imagination to rise to the surface.
When you write in community and have the opportunity to listen to other women's stories, you enter the encouraging realm of our shared humanity. You gather essential tools as a writer and receive the medicine of being deeply heard. In community, your writing becomes stronger, more honest, full of vision and heart.
No previous writing experience is necessary. This circle offers space for creative expression for women of all ages and backgrounds. For more information or to sign up please contact Dawn at: dawnrenethompson@gmail.com or 503.568.6145. Image: mymind/Unsplash
sanctuary: A personal monthly writing salon
with Dawn Thompson via Zoom
Dates: The First Wednesday of the Month
October 2024-June 2025
(If you are interested in joining this circle at any point before June 2025 at a pro-rated cost, please contact Dawn)Time: 12:30-2:00pmCost: $180
"I have a sense of these buried lives striving to come out through me to express themselves."
~Marge Piercy
Reserve a writing date
with yourself
each month...
There is always a reason not to write. Always 101 other things that need to be done. We think about that story we have wanted to complete for years, the novel we wish we could start, the poems we want to re-vision, the memoir we hope someday to pass on. And somehow everything else seems to come first. The truth is creatives need time, space and, yes, silence, which for many of us are in short supply.
Sanctuary is meant as a monthly writing date with the Self where you are given a window to focus on the writing that is calling you. After a brief welcome and centering poem we will have 50 minutes to write at our own pace on our own work. (Prompts will be provided in the chat should we arrive feeling blocked or in need of fresh ideas).
While this space is meant as a room of our own, it is also an alchemical vessel of collective creativity. You will look up and see fellow women writers involved with their own craft, in their own spaces, and feel the solidarity and inspiration of a writing community. We will re-gather the last 20 minutes to have the opportunity to share anything from our writing that we would like to hear out loud or have held by the group. While we will not offer reflection in the circle, group members will have an opportunity to exchange emails should they wish to connect in between time for writing support.
Space is limited to 14 participants.
This circle offers space for creative expression for women of all ages and backgrounds. For more information or to sign up please contact Dawn at: dawnrenethompson@gmail.com or 503.568.6145.
Images:
Feather - Melody Noraas
Candle - Hans Vivek/Unsplash