Workshops / Events

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Pilgrimage brings you two writers’ gatherings in 2010:

Writing a Way Open: Writers’ Retreat
with Former Pilgrimage Editor Peter Anderson
October 14-17, 2010, The Mandala Center (35 mi. east of Raton, NM)
If you are a writer looking for a way to bring new life into your creative work or if you are simply interested in finding ways to integrate writing into your life as a practice, this retreat will give you some simple methods to do so. How might walking, breathing, reading, and silence invite our own new words? Writing in solitude and in community, we will draw on the insights of poets, monks, seekers, and other adventurers who can offer us fresh ways of engaging language and opening into a deeper presence.

What you can expect to take home from this retreat:

• A renewed appreciation of words and reading.
• Several new methods for writing creatively in solitude and in community.
• A deeper understanding of the ways in which writing and contemplative practice can complement one another.
• A deeper awareness of the way in which other writers and poets have understood their experience of words and Spirit.

Located on the slopes of the Sierra Grande Mountain in the high desert plains of Northeastern New Mexico, The Mandala Center is a non-profit educational retreat center and interfaith sanctuary.

Words to Live By: Creative Writing Workshop
with award-winning memoirist and environmental writer Susan J. Tweit
December 26, 2010 - January 2, 2011, Baja California
We become the stories we tell ourselves. —Mary Pipher
What stories are you telling? Who do you want to become? What do you bring to the world? Join Susan and friends on magical Isla Espiritu Santo, an extraordinary meeting of desert and azure blue sea, to restore your creative fire and re-discover your own unique and powerful stories. You’ll write and write—and talk words, stories and life paths. You’ll snorkel with sea lions, kayak with sea turtles and flying fish, and wake each morning to waves lapping the shore outside comfy tent-suites. You’ll take away the tools you need to find inspiration and solace in your everyday life, and to write your way into telling the stories you want to become.

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