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August 2010 Newsletter
Online Issue # 25
Upcoming Calendar:
Discovery Writing: Creating A FutureSM
For 16 years Discovery Writing has been helping people to hear and trust their own knowing, in order to create a life of their own choosing.
For NEW Students:
FALL & WINTER CLASSES
Discovery Writing: Creating A Future
This six-session class uses a simple “listening-writing” process as a way to explore what you truly desire; it is also a path to follow in creating your future.
View the online flyer to learn more about Discovery Writing: Creating A Future
Fall Schedule 2010
Tuesday evening ( 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. )
September 21 October 5, 19 November 2, 16, 30
Winter Schedule 2011
Saturday morning ( 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. )
January 15, 29 February 12, 26 March 12, 26
NEW!!! A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Introducing Discovery Writing
I’m offering a one-day, four-topic workshop to introduce prospective students to the process, and the joy, of Discovery Writing. After sampling this workshop, students will know more clearly whether they want to continue on in the six-session Discovery Writing class. If space permits, the workshop will also welcome former students who want to reconnect with the listening-writing process.
Four Topics:
The Notebook as Container
Listening-Writing is a Way
Guided by Inner Knowing
Experiments Make it Real
More Details:
Saturday, November 6, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Total Cost: $75.00 (payable in advance to reserve your place in the workshop)
To Register:
Call Laurie at 651-644-7766 and leave your name and phone number(s).
Your call will be returned and your name will be added to the workshop list.
For FORMER Students:
FALL RETREAT
2010 Discovery Writing Weekend Retreat for Women
The annual Discovery Writing retreat is scheduled for the weekend of October 15-17. We'll be gathering at StoneyWoods Retreat Center, as we have for the past ten years.
This retreat is open to all former and current Discovery Writing students. If space remains available, the retreat will open to any woman interested in personal discovery through listening-writing.
In early August, detailed information will automatically be emailed to past registrants, as long as I have your current email address. If you do not receive the retreat email by August 6, let me know and I will send it to you.
If you are new to Discovery Writing and interested in attending the retreat, please send me an email requesting retreat information to mail@LaurieMattila.com. Expect a response after August 12.
ONGOING GROUP
2011 Discovery Writing Yearlong Group
This listening-writing group for former Discovery Writing students begins in January and meets monthly through December. If you're thinking this might be the year for you to participate, pencil the second Wednesday of the month on your calendar. Watch for details in the December newsletter or call and let me know you are interested: 651-644-7766.
Intentional Living—Meaningful Work SM
The idea of living with intention and working with meaning speaks to the heart, soul, and imagination. It is a topic that grows more relevant with each passing year.
Poet Mary Oliver asks, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Using this question as a place to begin, you are invited to examine the way you are living and working. Consider other questions too—Is this all there is? What are my true needs? How is my life being consumed? What's worth doing? Grapple with these ideas and more through personal reflection, group discussion, interactive exercises, a little writing, and optional outside reading. The group provides a supportive and stimulating environment that encourages personal responsibility for informed, conscious choice.
September 2010 to May 2011
Intentional Living—Meaningful Work group
This September, I'll begin another nine-month group that will meet once every month through next May. This group is open to anyone interested in exploring “living with intention and working with meaning,” whether or not you've ever taken the class. Our focus is on paying attention to the lives we are creating.
We will meet on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at my office in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul. The cost is $125 per quarter, payable in any month of the quarter. The group is limited to eight members and preregistration is required.
Meeting dates (by quarter):
September 14, October 12, November 9
December 14, January 11, February 8
March 8, April 12, May 10
Please call my office at 651-644-7766 for more information or to register for the Intentional Living— Meaningful Work group; leave your name and phone number so that I can return your call. Directions will be sent when you register.
Important Update: For over ten years I offered the class Intentional Living—Meaningful Work through the Compleat Scholar program at the University of Minnesota. I will now be offering the classes and groups from my workplace, located in the convenient Midway neighborhood of St. Paul. I would love to have you join us if you are interested.
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