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"As women, we teach and pass on our wisdom through story." —Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself
"Storycatchers come whenever we are in crisis to remind us of who we are. We require story in order to link our lives with each other. Story couples our experiences, mind to mind and heart to heart. Story is the electromagnetic conductor that brings us close enough together to make the leap of association and identification, to see that another person is a variation of ourselves." —Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher
Join us for a weekend of writing, sharing, and discovering how powerful the practice of telling our stories can be. The stories we tell about ourselves make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, depending on our definition and interpretation of the events of our lives—not what literally happens, but what we make of it. As Christina Baldwin notes, we make the world fit into the story we are already carrying. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. Come join our ranks and experience the mix of wisdom, wit and wonder that emerges when women gather to share their stories.
This workshop is open to any woman who is interested in life-writing—regardless of skill level or experience.
Date/Time:
- Saturday, June 14, 9am-5pm (5-8:30pm: optional dinner, Conversation Café:
participants are invited to a dutch-treat dinner on Saturday evening, with a Conversation Café following.)
- Sunday, June 15, 9am-noon
Location:
LCRA Dalchau Service Center, 3505 Montopolis Dr, Austin TX 78744 (click here for a map)
To get there from Austin you will take I-35 to the Ben White/71 exit, and head east (towards the airport). Take the 2nd exit (Montopolis Dr). Turn right and go 2 blocks. The LCRA facility is on the left. The workshop will be held in room A504 in the main building, which is near the ATM and flag poles.
Cost: $100 (SCN members) $125 (Non-members). A box lunch on Saturday is included in the fee. Scholarships are available. See the Registration Information for more details.
"Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even of finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself."
—Harriet Goldhor Lerner
Workshop Schedule:
Sunday, 9am-noon
- 9-9:30 Snacks, coffee/tea, and conversation
- 9:30-10:45 Session 5
- 10:45-11 break
- 11-12 Final sharing, announcements, evaluations
Things to Bring & Things to Leave at Home:
- See session info below for additional items to bring!
- Bring journal or a notebook & a writing implement. Leave your laptop at home. (Some people are bothered by the clicking of keys in a quiet writing period.)
- Bring a sweater or shawl to ward off drafts.
- We provide coffee & tea. We also provide lunch. If you want morning &/or afternoon snack or other drinks (such as colas), please bring them.
- Leave your prepared writing at home. We read & share only what we write in the workshop.
- Leave your perfume at home; some people are allergic to perfumes.
Sessions:
(more details coming soon...)
- Discovering Story-Power: Carolyn Blankenship.
Stories are fantastic tools: they heal us, remind us, guide us, define us, connect us. We will look at our untold stories, and those we keep alive and pass along, and see what we can discover about the hidden power in our tales.
- Discovering Honey in the Heart: Carolyn Blankenship.
In this session we will recall the ordinary persons who touched our lives in extraordinary ways and share the stories of those who help us remember what we mean to each other.
- Discovering Ourselves: Listening to Stories from our Waking, Dreaming, and Imaginative Lives: Cathey Capers.
We will explore our stories through childhood experiences, dreams, and parables, discovering what each of these aspects reveal to us about our true selves.
- Discovering Your Vision Through Collage: Jeanne Ware Guy.
Clarify what you really want through the fun of collaging, and discover how powerful the practice of seeing and sharing our visions can be. All supplies will be provided.
Registration Information:
- Enrollment is limited. Please register early: you can use our online enrollment form.
NOTE: Enrollment is now (06/08/2008) closed for the June "Writing From Life" workshop. If you sign up now, you will be put on the waiting list (in case of cancellations).
Registration/Payment Deadline: Friday, June 6. We must receive your registration and payment by this date!
- Fee: $125 for non-members; $100 for dues-paying Story Circle Network members. The registration fee covers the cost of instruction, lunch, coffee/tea, & handout materials.
SCHOLARSHIP for FOOD! We are offering a full scholarship to this event for someone good at organizing, who will be asked to bring snacks, set up the coffee and snack table, call in lunch orders, and pick the lunches up. The cost of food and beverages will be covered by Story Circle Network. This person will miss part of the session just before lunch and will need to arrive half an hour early to set up and stay after for half an hour to oversee the cleanup. Interested? Please email us.
If you are not currently a dues-paying member of SCN, you can join using our online membership form. You then qualify for the member fee for the WFL workshop & can make one payment: annual dues plus WFL workshop fee.
- Location:
LCRA Dalchau Service Center
Meeting Room A504, Building A
3505 Montopolis Dr
Austin TX 78744
(click here for a map)
To get there from Austin you will take I-35 to the Ben White/71 exit, and head east (towards the airport). Take the 2nd exit (Montopolis Dr). Turn right and go 2 blocks. The LCRA facility is on the left. The workshop will be held in room A504 in the main building, which is near the ATM and flag poles.
To see a list of hotels in the area, click
here.
SCN members have volunteered a limited number of guest rooms for out-of-town registrants. For information, email storycircle@storycircle.org.
Interested in sharing a hotel room? See our Roommates Wanted! webpage.
- Refund/Cancellation Policy: We will refund your registration fee, less a $20 cancellation charge, if you request it up to 15 days before the workshop. After that date, we will refund your fee only if we are able to fill your space from our waiting list. We reserve the right to cancel the workshop; if so, we will refund your full registration fee. You can contact us at
Story Circle Network
P.O. Box 500127
Austin, TX 78750-0127
512-454-9833
storycircle@storycircle.org
Presenters:
(more details coming soon...)
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Carolyn Blankenship has served as Story Circle's Program Director, has been a member of the SCN Board, & facilitates the monthly "Write On! Circle," Writing from Life Workshops, and OWL (Older Women's Legacy) Circles. Carolyn has developed & taught a variety of programs in spiritual & personal growth over the past 30 years and is the author of From the Heart: A Manual for Facilitators.
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Cathey Capers has completed the Seton Cove's Spiritual Formation Program and is a graduate of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program. She has kept a journal for over 20 years and is a published poet. She currently co-hosts Conversation Café and Group Spiritual Direction where the preservation of trustworthy space for reflection and sharing is paramount. She has also recently completed The Center for Courage and Renewal's Advanced Circles of Trust Program-providing formation for individuals who will convene and facilitate professional renewal retreats. |
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Jeanne Ware Guy, educator and writer, has facilitated workshops and classes for over ten years and began her popular "Your Life is Your Art! You Are the Artist" workshop at the Seton Cove, an Austin, Texas interfaith spirituality center. The 14-week workshop, based on Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, became part of the Cove's core curriculum.
Her irreverent sense of humor coupled with her encouraging and experiential facilitation style creates a safe space for participants to shape their lives through "daily practice" tools, the foundation of which is journaling. "If you're not creating your life story, who is?" she asks of them.
A graduate of Indiana University and Leadership Austin, she is currently writing a creative non-fiction based on the kidnapping of her older two children.
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