Summary
Workshop Number: P-12
Leaders: J. Brent Bill
Who May Register?: Adults Only (high school with permission)
Worship/Worship-Sharing: 10%
Lecture: 20%
Discussion: 35%
Experiential Activities: 35%
Who May Attend?
only full time attenders (participants should attend all week)
Do you wish to write in a way that touches readers and yourself? This workshop offers tips and techniques for connecting with your writer’s heart and how to put your heart on paper. You will learn exercises that help you uncover themes and concerns that bring your writing to life. Do you wish to write…
Workshop Description
Do you wish to write in a way that touches readers and yourself? This workshop offers tips and techniques for connecting with your writer’s heart and how to put your heart on paper. You will learn exercises that help you uncover themes and concerns that bring your writing to life.
Do you wish to write in a way that touches readers and yourself? This workshop offers tips and techniques for connecting with your writer’s heart and how to put your heart on paper. You will learn exercises that help you uncover themes and concerns that bring your writing to life.
This workshop offers practical ways for involving head, heart, and craft in writing – with a particular emphasis on tapping into your heart. Each session will open with worship, followed by thoughts by Brent on the day’s topic, group discussions, exercises regarding each day’s topic, free-writing time, and sharing writing with the group for friendly critique and support.
Topics that will be covered include (but aren’t limited to): right brain/left brain writing, what’s on your heart, listening to your body’s spiritual wisdom, bringing brain, heart, and body together, developing your writers voice, saying what’s most important to you, writing as a spiritual practice, and more.
Participants will participate in guiding the topics covered and the workshop will evolve as the week goes on. There will be ample room for learning from each other, open conversations and discussion, all in a respectful atmosphere. This workshop will be a community of
Leader Experience
With more than twenty books and numerous articles and short stories published since the 1980s, J. Brent Bill has learned a thing or three about writing. His book titles include “Amity: Stories from the Heartland,” “Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times,” “Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker,” and Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality. A life long Quaker, he’s a writing coach, editor, photographer, and retreat leader. Brent has offered this interactive writing workshop at places such as Earlham School of Religion’s “Ministry of Writing Colloquium,” the Midwest Writers Workshop, and the Indiana Writers Center.