Writing Class

Modern Love: Writing for the Times
Writing for Self-Exploration 2011

Led by Donna Hardy, MFT at Angela Center, Santa Rosa, CA

There are two sections available: classes will meet every other Wednesday 10 to noon January 12 & 26; February 9 & 23; March 9 & 23 and April 6 & 20) OR every other Thursday 12:30 to 2:30 (January 13 & 27; February 10 & 24;
March 10 & 24; and April 7 & 21).

Cost for class is $160. Note also that CEUs available for MFT & LCSW.

Angela Center is located among vineyards and playing fields at the edge of Santa Rosa. The buildings and grounds support solitude; there is much good writing and walking space.

Writing Retreat: Camp Writing Bear

Hosted by Donna Hardy and Clare Morris, July 10-15, 2011
Begins Sunday morning, July 10, and ends with lunch on Friday, July 15

Writing Good Stories

Whether you're writing for Random House or for random relatives—and whether your story takes form as fact or fiction, prose or poetry—writing our lives is a creative, clarifying and curative process. Our workshop hour each morning is about how to make our stories more captivating. The rest of the day is for writing and reflecting, with reading and feedback time late each afternoon. Evenings are for activities that support our writing. Bring your laptop and your writer's notebooks; and, because there's more to writing than writing, bring your journal, your sketch pad, your needlepoint, your flip flops, your walking shoes, your swim suit.

Clare Morris, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and the author of two books of poetry, Child of the Longest Night and In Transit, Love Poems to the City. She has made several Bay Area appearances reading her piece from the anthology, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. She is writing a memoir. Donna Hardy is a psychotherapist and writing teacher and the author of Songs to a Watchful Lover and Maria Rifo, Alive at Any Age, A Memoir published March 2007. She is writing and rewriting a collection of essays. Clare and Donna have been leading writing workshops, together and separately, for more than 30 years. They are skillful at making and holding space where people can do their own creative work. See what others have said about retreats led by Donna and Clare.

Angela Center is located among vineyards and playing fields at the edge of Santa Rosa. The buildings and grounds support solitude; there is much good writing and walking space. We will be living and writing at Ursula Hall, a reconditioned convent, where you will have a well-appointed Room of Your Own, air-conditioned, with hot and cold running water. Toilets and showers are down the hall. The meals will be better than you remember from Scout Camp. Enrolment is limited to twelve. The total cost is $625. Call Angela Center at 707.525.8578 to register.

CEU credit hours are available for MFT and LCSW licensure.

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