WRITING ONE'S PERSONAL MYTH #events #Wichita #writechat

A WRITER'S RETREAT
WITH DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
Writing has the capacity to mend some tear in the fabric of our fiction, the storied self that is always plotting its course both within and without.  By exposing to the open air of prose what affects, wounds, emblazons the scar tissue of resentments, hurts, slights, wrongs, wrong paths chosen, one has the opportunity to close the gap or the gape in the soul-holes of one's being. –Dennis Patrick Slattery, Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story

Friday, May 13, 2016

7:00 – 9:00 PM

Saturday, May 14, 2016

9:30 – 4:30 PM

$125    Includes a copy of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story by  Dennis Patrick Slattery & Saturday lunch catered by The Old Mill Tasty Shop.      

We begin on Friday evening to explore what asks to be expressed and what direction your writing will take you. We may be called to a work that focuses on personal and/or professional growth. We might ask: What is the genesis of this call? What are its terms? Is being called a mythic instance in our life that may re-direct our trajectory? What are the consequences of its refusal? “Not now; call me back.” What parts are we still to live out? 

On Saturday, through writing prose and poetry, we’ll engage several active imagination meditations taken from Dr. Slattery’s book, Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story, as well as additional meditations created since the book’s publication, to invite the voice and energy of our personal myth through several conduits of expression. We will write cursively, so leave all laptops at home. Bring with you a journal, a favorite writing utensil and an open heart in order to enjoy this interlude from your daily routines to reflect and write in a welcoming setting and to share, if you wish, some of your own insights and remembrances with others. All participants will be given a copy of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story by Dennis Patrick Slattery.

REGISTRATION

Register Early! Class size limited! To register,  print and fill in the form below then email the form to pbjork2910@aol.com or fill in and print the form then mail to: Pam Bjork, 240 S. Pershing St, Wichita, KS 67218

A $50.00 deposit is required with your registration by personal check or Credit Card (Visa or MC). Balance due May 1, 2016. An email confirmation letter will be sent within 5 days of receiving your registration. (So be sure to include one when you send the form!)

CANCELLATION

To obtain a refund on your registration fee, email a written cancellation request no later than April 22, 2016 to pbjork2910@aol.com. Tuition less a $25 processing fee will be refunded. No refunds on your registration fee will be made after that time. 

MEALS

Saturday lunch is provided to encourage ongoing dialogue and community exchange. Catered by The Old Mill Tasty Shop

LOCATION

The Garvey House, 8427 East Douglas, Wichita

(Immediately EAST of The Independent School)

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A wonderful opportunity to dive deep into one’s story!

#Riting Myth; Mythic Writing

Hunting and Gathering
Seeking the Shards of Our Patterned Plot

A WRITER'S RETREAT
WITH DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
AUGUST 28-30, 2015

Every couple years I go after a writer's workshop or gathering around explorations into poetics, depth perspectives or something related to my discipline as a cultural mythologer. This year's event brings together my interest in all three. This year's event is a writing retreat with Professor (and poet) Dennis Patrick Slattery held this August in Santa Barbara and sponsored by PacificA Graduate Institute (henceforth, PGI).

The last time a summer writer's retreat in riting myth, mythic writing was offered through PGI was 2010. You might remember way back then my blogging around that event which I attend. I enjoyed my experience so much I may try to clear my jam-packed summer schedule to participate again.

But, right now, I'd like to give those of you who like reading my blogs an early heads up so that those of you who live in proximity to Santa Barbara and/or have always wanted to participate in a mythic writing writer's experience and are very much interested in attending, might get the jump on the sign-up for this writing retreat. If you think you are interested in attending the August gathering,  you will find everything you need to know here.

Sign up as early as you are able because the class size is limited to keep this riting myth, mythic writing experience a warm and intimate learning environment. Hey, maybe I'll see you there!

RITING MYTH : : MYTHIC WRITING

           An Orbit of Understanding; A Pattern of Deepening

      For even as you have home-comings in your twilight, so has the
      wanderer in you the ever distant and alone.     ~Kahlil Gibran

On that hill

under that sky
I saw a shadow
lift its head


in that word
in that way
under that
last light.

…Then,
he said “mould”
but, I heard “mold”
and instantly, “decay”

and instantly
the shadow moved
instantly away.


“Write at that,” he said

till it grows on that hill
under that sky
in that word
its own way
that light. In that

last light
                something new.


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