WRITING YOURSELF HOME

Memoir & Meditation Workshops & Retreats

with Barry Spacks & Kimberley Snow

Nov 6, 2010 Saturday 9am to 4:30 PM
Memoir & Meditation: Meditating, Writing, Instruction & Discussion

Upstairs at the Blue Agave, 20 E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

$75 - includes Blue Agave Lunch
to register: ksnowsb@gmail.com

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2011
(Subject to change)

April 8-10, Meditation & Poetry (April is National Poetry Month, after all) weekend writing & meditating retreat
Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission, SB.
retreats@sboldmission.org

August 19 - 21, Meditation and Writing
weekend writing & meditating retreat
Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission, SB.

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ARCHIVED MATERIAL:

Memoir & Meditation Weekend Writing Retreat
With Barry Spacks & Kimberley Snow

August 20 - 22, 2010, Santa Barbara,

Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission, Santa Barbara

The retreat will focus on how to use meditation as a support for writing and on writing as a means to enhance spiritual practice and personal growth. Although the retreat will specifically focus on memoir, the techniques  presented can be used to enhance many forms of writing. This retreat is open to everyone, from beginners  to advanced writers, from new to seasoned meditators.

After a general introduction to memoir writing in various genres by both presenters, Barry will lead a hands-on poetry workshop dealing with personal history.

Kimberley will lead a workshop on memoir writing drawing on playwrighting and other fictional techniques.

Both Kimberley & Barry will facilitate wide-ranging discussions of both meditation and writing and their mutually supportive powers.

The meditations, which will be included in every session, will be led by Kimberley, and include Calm Abiding to cultivate stability, relaxation, and awareness; tonglen (taking and sending) to generate compassion; and loving kindness. While these meditations are from the Buddhist tradition, their benefits are available to everyone and one doesn't have to be a Buddhist to make good use of them.

Barry Spacks, the first Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara and author of two novels, numerous stories and ten volumes of poetry, has taught Poetry as Memoir for many years in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB as well as at various poetry writing workshops.  www.barryspacks.net

Kimberley Snow, PhD, author of the memoir In Buddha's Kitchen as well as Writing Yourself Home, and Keys to the Open Gate, taught writing at UCSB for many years and has given a number of workshops on writing memoir. She is also a prize-winning playwright.  Since 2007, she has been the Program Director for the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies headed by B. Alan Wallace, and has coordinated numerous SBI retreats at the Mission Renewal Center and has also offered spiritual teachings and guided meditations at various events.

www.snowlight.com
www.writingyourselfhome.net

Snow-Spacks: http://www.snowcrest.net/ksnow/

Registration starts at 2 pm on Friday.  Retreat begins with welcome and orientation at 5:00 pm, dinner at 6:00 pm and ends on Sunday with lunch. Cost: $200 per person shared / $225 private room / $150 commuter / $240 private bath (limited)

This event is sponsored by the Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission, SB

* * Writer’s Special * * - Extra nights at $60/person/night includes breakfast and lunch  

REGISTRATION FORM for “Memoir & Meditation” August 20-22, 2010 Mission Renewal Center, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105      805-682-4713, x133    email: retreats@sboldmission.org or On-line registration at www.santabarbaramission.org   Name(s):                                                                                                                                   Address:                                                                                                                                   City/State/Zip:                                                                           Phone:                                               E-mail:                                                                                                                                                   Single ____   Double ____   Commuter ____   Private Bath ____      Roommate requested:                                                 # of extra nights requested _____   A $50.00 non-refundable deposit per person is required to secure your place at this event.

 

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