What course would be most appropriate for me if I:

a) Feel like I'm a ground-zero beginner
Finding & Expanding Your Voice one-day intensive,
RF I: Art of Languaging: Finding & Expanding Your Voice 10-week, all Retreats

b) Feel like the walking wounded, afraid to write because someone told me once I couldn't or that I was lousy at it, or simply because I don't believe I can do it.
Finding & Expanding Your Voice one-day intensive,
RF I: Art of Languaging: Finding & Expanding Your Voice 10-week, Soulfood, all Retreats

c) Have quite a bit of experience doing creative writing either in college or on my own but haven't written for awhile and feel a bit rusty.
Finding & Expanding Your Voice one-day intensive,
RF I: Art of Languaging: Finding & Expanding Your Voice 10-week, Soulfood, all Retreats

d) Have experience in creative writing and publishing, but feel I've reached a plateau and need a new blast of energy to vitalize my language
Finding & Expanding Your Voice one-day intensive
,
RF I: Art of Languaging: Finding & Expanding Your Voice 10-week, all Retreats

e) Have experience in prose writing and publishing (technical, journalistic, speech writing, fiction, non-fiction, etc.) , but want to take my writing to another level of power, beauty, and originality by training to know what a poet knows about language
Finding & Expanding Your Voice one-day intensive,

RF I: Art of Languaging: Finding & Expanding Your Voice 10-week
, all Retreats

f) Have a lot of raw material and unfinished work, am confident in my voice but need help shaping my language, becoming a better editor of my own work, and completing something
RF II: Prose Poetry & The Art of Editing

g) Want to open my mind to prose poetry as an open-ended genreless genre in which to explore the fusion of poetic language, the sentence, and narrative
RF II: Prose Poetry & The Art of Editing

h) Am involved in an on-going creative writing project, want to stretch the possibilities of the project I'm working on, and/or go to another level of maturity and artfulness in my writing
RF I: Art of Languaging or RF IV: Fiction, Creative non-fiction, or Poetry for intermediate & advanced writers.

i) Want relaxation, community, replenishment, permission to go deep and generate significant material to develop later, integration of head & heart, a spiritual & literary experience
Weekend Retreats


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