Creating the Sacred with Gaia: A Creative Writing Workshop Sunday October 23, 2011

This writing workshop will explore our relationship with the natural world by using our creativity to deepen our connection with the Earth. Reading short passages and poetry, we will gain inspiration for our writing while opening ourselves for some visioning for the new earth we are co-creating with Gaia. This workshop will focus not on producing perfect writing, but rather on being in a supportive atmosphere to give voice to what is wanting expression about our connection with earth. We will write together using timed writing exercises and share our writing with each other.

Participants will explore their relationship with the earth by allowing the inner voice to be expressed in a supportive atmosphere. The readings and prompts are conducive for going inward and being in a meditative, reflective state. This will inspire us to creatively move beyond our small individual selves and into a more intimate relationship with nature and a larger sense of ecological community.

Please bring your journal or notebook. You are also invited to bring something for the altar representing your connection to Mother Earth.

Location: New Renaissance Bookshop
               1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97210
Date:       Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost:       $25
Register:  With New Renaissance at this link, in store, or call 503-224-4929
Contact:  call Kathy at 503-267-3122 or email writewithgaia@gmail.com

Workshop facilitator:

Kathy Stanley has a B.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature from Marylhurst University and is a graduate student at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is a Corelight Minister, studying for many years with enlightenment teacher Leslie Temple-Thurston of Corelight. She has studied Deep Ecology with renowned rainforest activist John Seed of Australia and completed shamanic practitioner's training with John Perkins. She has also studied creative writing with Natalie Goldberg, The Attic Writer’s Studio and the Salmon Street Writing Studio in Portland. Kathy’s writings can be found on her blogs at sacredtravel.wordpress.com, kathystanley.blogspot.com and LabrishJamaica.blogspot.