Barry
Spacks & Kimberley Snow 
Memoir & Meditation
Upstairs
Blue Agave, 20 E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA This
workshop will
focus on how to use meditation as a support for writing and on
writing as a means to deepen spiritual practice and personal growth.
Although the retreat will focus on memoir, the techniques presented
can be used to enhance many forms of writing. Topics include the
connections between writing and meditation; introduction to memoir;
and using elements from genres such as playwriting and poetry in
writing about personal history. Each session will include writing,
wide-ranging discussions, and meditations designed to cultivate
stability, relaxation, and awareness as well as fostering compassion
and loving kindness. The workshop is open to everyone, from beginning
to advanced writers, from new to seasoned meditators.
Barry Spacks, the first Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara and author of two novels, numerous stories and ten volumes of poetry, has taught Poetry as Memoir for many years in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB as well as various poetry writing workshops. www.barryspacks.net Kimberley
Snow, PhD, prize-winning playwright and author of the memoir In Buddha’s Kitchen, as well as Writing Yourself Home and Keys to the Open Gate, taught writing
at UCSB for many years and has given a number of workshops on writing
memoir. Since 2007, she has been the Program Director for the Santa
Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies headed by B. Alan Wallace. www.writingyourselfhome.net To register,
contact Kimberley Snow ksnowsb@gmail.com
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