Write the Irish Way. Workshop with Eanlai Cronin

Write the Irish Way: Tap What Your Soul Longs to Say is a Six Week Writing Workshop designed to return you to the doors of your Wild Self where your Soul and all her stories await.

WHEN: 
6 Tuesday nights, January 17-February 21, 2017, 6:15-9 p.m. OR
6 Wednesday Mornings, January 18-February 22, 2017, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

$25 Discount to the first five responses to this notice.

“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.” ―John O Donohue

LOCATION: OTIS DRIVE ALAMEDA (private home venue)

COST: $375 for the full six-week session with a non-refundable $75 deposit to hold your place. The deposit is required only to ensure that you are seriously committed to attending all sessions. After you have paid the advance deposit, you pay the remainder of the fee on the first night. I am open to payment plans once discussed in advance.

TO REGISTER: Email [email protected]

$25 Discount to the first five responses to this notice.

WORKSHOP SIZE. The workshops are limited to eight participants

HOW IT WORKS: Using the Amherst Writers and Artists Method, we write to three prompts over the course of the evening. The prompts are merely suggestions and springboards for your imagination. Whether you write memoir, poetry, short story, fiction, personal essay or do journal-writing as a process tool, this is the place for you. This is your door to the Wild Self to do with as you wish.
Write whatever is on your mind or in your heart beginning with the phrase “what I really want to say is. . ..”

POSITIVE FEEDBACK ONLY. If you do read your work aloud, we only respond with what we like, what is strong and what we remember. These writings are fresh, first drafts, and we treat them with the reverence and praise they deserve. This is the beauty of the AWA Method, that by identifying and attuning ourselves to the strengths of both our own work, and others, we develop an ear for the finer points of craft and technique simply by observing what we like, what is strong and what stays with us.

HOW THE EVENING SESSIONS UNFOLD: We start at 6.15 pm with a brief meditation and then, I provide the first prompt to which we write for 15-20 minutes followed by reading aloud/response time. Everyone is invited to read what they have written, but you are absolutely free to pass.
At 7.15, we break for tea, fruit, scones and other healthy snacks. We also discuss briefly our writing process and any topics of interest to us such as books, plays, art exhibits and concerts that fill up our artistic reservoir. We also share any issues that hinder our creativity such as negative self-talk, fear, silence as a habit.
At 7.25/7.30 p.m. we return for our second prompt and write for 15-20 minutes, read and respond.
At 8.35 p.m. we have time, most nights, for a third short write.
We close each night with a poem that we read together.

HOW THE MORNING SESSION UNFOLDS: We start at 10:00 a.m with a brief meditation and then, I provide the first prompt to which we write for 15-20 minutes followed by reading aloud/response time. Everyone is invited to read what they have written, but you are absolutely free to pass.
At 11:00, we break for tea, fruit, scones and other healthy snacks. We also discuss briefly our writing process and any topics of interest to us such as books, plays, art exhibits and concerts that fill up our artistic reservoir. We also share any issues that hinder our creativity such as negative self-talk, fear, silence as a habit.
At 11:10-11.15 a.m. we return for our second prompt and write for 15-20 minutes, read and respond.
At 12.25 p.m. we take another short break and have time, most mornings, for a third short write.
We close each session with a poem that we read together