Mindful Writing Retreat
Feb 15 to 17, 2019
Activity
15 Feb (Friday)
Introduction to Mindful Writing: How to get started on your book, memoir or screenplay? Writing after meditating helps you to find your authentic creative voice by quietening the inner critic.
- Ice breaker activity for pp to get to know each other
- Introductory Mindful Writing Exercise
- Writing (individual)
- Sharing of writing (optional)
- Questions and queries (group)
- Individual consultations
16 Feb (Sat)
Talk on Mindful Listening…responding to the call to adventure…to find your inner wisdom and your story. Tools for writing a story; structure, plot and character.
“There’s no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” Maya Angelou
- Mindful Writing Hero’s Journey Meditation – how to begin, handle doubt, not knowing, trusting one’s instinct
- Writing after Meditation
- Sharing of writing (Optional)
- Questions and queries
- Break
- Talk on Mindful Walking as a creative writing tool
- Walking Meditation
- Writing after Meditation
- Sharing of writing (optional)
- Talk on Mindful Eating
- Mindful Eating
- Lunch
- How to develop characters and character arcs?
- Loving Kindness Meditation to get to know your characters at a deeper level
- Writing
- Sharing of experience (optional)
- Sharing of writing
- Questions and queries
- Tea Break
- Talk on Mindfulness of the senses: How to keep the reader reading, the audience watching…how to build dramatic character and story tension
- The Open Mind Meditation – creating awareness of various senses to be used in writing
- Writing
- Sharing of writing
- Questions and queries
- Individual Consultation (optional)
17 Feb (Sun)
- Individual Consultations
- Talk on exploring endings: resolutions…how to resolve story and conflict in writing
- Mountain Meditation
- Writing after meditation
- Sharing of Writing
- Networking and Bonding over Lunch
- Forming writing interest groups
- Addressing craft questions: next steps; how to begin again, a new chapter, a new book, a new day of writing
- Talk on different genres, using first person vs third person, using tenses to create effect
- Boat Meditation to generate new ideas
- Writing