Events
Ongoing Classes & Workshops in the San Juan Islands, WA
Exploring Our Lives for Meaning and Memoir -- Memoir Writing Workshop: When we reclaim our lives in writing, we make clear who we are, what
we mean, where we come from, how we got here, and why. We get to live
our lives twice; complete with the grace of hindsight as well as with
the honesty that makes each life compelling and true. This memoir
workshop is about getting away from these dastardly sound-bite,
disposable times and diving into the depths of our lives where our
stories save the world. There is nothing to be critical of, nothing to
judge, and nothing to correct.
Many people bring to their adult
lives a deep mistrust of their ability to write. All the red marks in
school, the derision of professors, the impossibly subjective ivory
tower of what makes “good” writing, creates a quicksand of judgment that
can swallow a writer alive. And everyone who writes is a “writer.” And
nobody can write our stories for us. And when we write them, we lay
claim to our lives, irrefutably and completely. The only criteria is to
tell the truth, to be fierce with reality, and then to let the writing
lead the way. It leads us into our lives in ways that deepen our
appreciation of our own and one another’s stories. It broadens our
relationship to the world within and the world without. It tosses all
the red marks into the dustbin of someone else’s “right” and “wrong” and
liberates us into the unique and universal power of our own lives.
Whose Trip Is It, Anyways? Travel Writing Workshop - In
writing our tales of travel, how do we explore the present, respect the
past, and please the reader? This is an active writing workshop in
which the environment is explored, the senses come out to play, people
are interviewed, landscape is described, research is accomplished,
meaning is determined, lessons are taught, perspective is offered,
discernment reigns, and all is fair in writing and truth-telling.
Whether you are writing for yourself or the masses, your blog or your
dog, your grandmother or your guru, your trip is only as interesting as
the words on the page—virtual and otherwise.
Please call or email for info: jthomas@rockisland.com / 360-378-3854
Speaking Engagement(s)
The 14th Annual Ritual Abuse,
Secretive Organizations and Mind
Control
Conference
August 5 - 7,
2011
DoubleTree near Bradley International Airport
16 Ella Grasso
Turnpike
Windsor Locks, CT
Sponsored by: S.M.A.R.T.
Promotional
Co-sponsors:
Survivorship
California Protective Parents Association
Persons Against Ritual Abuse-Torture
Internet conference
information:
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
India, Spring, 2012~~ Three Workshops at Deer Park Institute, Bir
(Specific dates TBA)
