Your
Writing And Your Life:
Discovering Your Core Themes, Symbols, And Your Strongest Writing Paths
Instructor:
Donna Caruso
Location: Moose
Jaw TBA
Fees: $60
for Guild members; $75 for non-members
Class
minimum:
5. Class maximum
12
This
workshop is not about recalling childhood memories. It
is about the ultimate design of our lives, the underpinning sequences,
patterns, tones, and strokes which have built who we are and which
lead us to our strongest writing. It is, in fact, what we truly know,
internally.
Participants
write privately through a series of guided explorations. That writing
is never shared. Privacy is key so that each person feels totally safe
and free to write whatever emerges. Discussions revolve around
things other than what the participants have written,
usually serving as a warm-up for the next writing
exercise.
In
this workshop, there is mostly guided writing in silence. Participants
write for an hour at a time in response to a guiding voice,
then a short discussion takes place, which leads into the next writing
session.
Lunch
is provided and is considered part of the workshop. There
is silence over the hour long lunch break.
Essentially,
this workshop is a one-day guided retreat to discover
significant personal themes, core values, what's sacred for you,
and how you might identify the strongest paths for your
writing.
This
class will benefit writers at all stages of their development.
Donna
Caruso's Bio
Donna
Caruso writes for film, stage, radio, and print. Her recent radio
play The Clothesline
aired on CBC radio in February, 2005, and caused an audience response
never before experienced by the CBC switchboard. The Clothesline is also a
one-woman show which will be performed along with Grace Before Meals,
another one-woman show by Donna Caruso, at the Regina Fringe Festival
in August, 2005.
Registration