Writing Your Sacred Journey | Retreat

Sunday – Friday | July 6 – 11
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Hidden within your life experiences is a wellspring of hope, wisdom, truth, and connection. When you write your memories, you draw from this life-giving source. The act of creating stories from your past helps you re-create the present and move into a more meaningful future.
Join Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew to explore memoir as a spiritual practice. Whether you write as a form of private prayer, as a gift for family and friends, or for publication, this week-long retreat welcomes you into the transformational possibilities of writing. We’ll introduce spiritual memoir, reflect on memory as a sacred faculty, address the challenges and hazards of writing from memory, and learn how to sustain and deepen the practice. There will be ample time for solitude.

Format: Overnight Stay, Commuter, or Zoom | The facilitator will be in person.
Overnight Stay: 5 overnights, 3 meals/day
Commuter: lunch, snacks, contemplative space

Facilitator: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a wisdom teacher and writing coach dedicated to facilitating creative emergence. As a writer she elicits the spirit’s movement within stories; as a teacher she supports transformation within writers and on the page. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Hamline University, her spiritual direction training from the Center for Spiritual Guidance, and her contemplative formation from the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Living School. She is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit; the novel Hannah, Delivered; a collection of personal essays, On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness; and three writing texts: Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir; Living Revision: A Writer’s Craft as Spiritual Practice; and The Release: Creativity & Freedom After the Writing is Done. You can learn more at www.elizabethjarrettandrew.com

Thanks to our generous donors, scholarships are available! If a scholarship would help you participate, we encourage you to apply. Click here to fill out the scholarship form.

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