Soul Writing Retreat
at the Lotus Temple
A day of connection and creative flow
Saturday, January 24
10 am-3 pm
Creative Healing Center
Livermore, CA
Early bird discount through January 10
This daylong retreat in the deeply grounded, serene setting of CHC’s Lotus Temple will help you:
Listen to and express yourself in profound, life-changing ways
Trust your voice and the importance of its message (especially now!)
Give and receive the medicine of kindness and generosity
Express your grief, your gratitude, your longing, your love… whatever wants to make its way through
Take a day off from your inner critic
Form lasting connections with other creative, soulful humans
We will write, and we will share.
We’ll do several sessions of timed writing in response to prompts that invite you to explore your inner and outer landscapes, then we’ll share our work with each other.
We’ll do some of this in a big group, and break into smaller ones for more intimate sessions. You’ll get to know the other hearts in the space in different contexts and varying depths.
With each round we’ll become more trusting of ourselves and our fellow writers. It is truly amazing how quickly this happens.
We’ll break for lunch about halfway through. Bring your own or grab something from a nearby establishment.
This is not a ‘writing workshop’ in the traditional sense.
We’re not working on our writing, not trying to improve it. Instead, we’re responding to what is most alive and powerful in us—and having that witnessed and reflected by our friends. Writing is merely the vehicle for this powerful work.
Nor do you have to be a ‘writer’ already (whatever that even is).
Whether you’ve been writing your whole life, don’t believe you can write at all, or fall anywhere along that continuum, you will benefit from the magic of this session.
Bring pen, paper, and an open heart.
Beyond that there is nothing to prepare. You’ll be guided the whole way.
What you can expect
The benefits
Soul Writing groups come to love and trust one another very quickly.
(You’ll see.)
It is into this space of genuine kindness that you will bring your voice, your expression.
Before long, you may find yourself wanting to go deeper into your soul, mining for the truth that is there. The courage you find to do this is a genuine, heart-sourced longing to be known, and to know others.
You get the space to connect with your medicine and let it spill forth, and—the really powerful part—be witnessed by others who love you. (You’ll see!)
This is also a chance to form community.
Depending on where folks are coming from, some of our smaller groups may be geographically based so that you can start writing with folks in your neighborhood and maybe set up an ongoing practice of this.
Saturday, January 24
10 am-3 pm
Creative Healing Center
Livermore, CA
Early bird discount through January 10
Directions, parking and other specifics will be included in your confirmation, but please email joy@soulwriting.org if you have any questions before you register.