WRITING WITHOUT THE EGO with Douglas Goetsch
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Date(s) - 06/28/2013 - 06/30/2013
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
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WRITING WITHOUT THE EGO:
A Weekend of Writing and Meditation with Douglas Goetsch
To Register: Call Jessica at 757-3375 or email at barredowlretreat@gmail.com!
It doesn’t have to take years for a new poet to write something effective and moving to a reader, but it does require shedding some of the confines of the ego, and letting go of limiting beliefs. The same is true for more experienced writers who get stuck: getting out of ego habits, more often than not, invites the next breakthrough. As a writing teacher, I have—usually without mentioning it to students—used principles of dharma and meditation, which are deeply wise in the ways of ego, to radically accelerate their artistic growth.
Douglas Goetsch Comes to the Barred Owl
Participants in this workshop will be shown a series of delightful and innovative approaches to the act of writing, many of which make explicit use of dharma and meditation teachings. Activities will include generative writing, study of literary models, discussion and Q&A, reading aloud of student work, and some guided meditation practice (you need not have ever meditated)—all taught by a supportive, veteran teacher, who is both a meditation instructor and an acclaimed poet. This class is appropriate for any serious writer at any level.
Schedule: Friday night, 7 – 9 Introductory session
Saturday & Sunday: 8 – 4 with Breaks 8:45 – 9:30 for Breakfast & 12:30 – 2 for Lunch. Meditation 8-8:45 each day.
The cost for this event is $330.00 and includes breakfast, lunch and additional snacks and refreshments each day.
Douglas Goetsch is the author of three full-length collections of poems, four prizewinning chapbooks, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, The Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize. Doug is also an authorized meditation instructor, in the Dharma Ocean lineage of Chogyam Trungpa and Reggie Ray.
To Register: Call Jessica at 757-3375 or email at barredowlretreat@gmail.com!