Writing Your Inner Self: A Marywood Writers’ Retreat
DATE: February 21 - 23, 2025
TIME: 3:00 pm - 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center
INVESTMENT: $400 staying onsite in a private room in a shared cabin. $280 commuting
TIME: 3:00 pm - 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center
INVESTMENT: $400 staying onsite in a private room in a shared cabin. $280 commuting
Move beyond the surface to write your inner-most self!
Join us at Marywood February 21st-23rd, 2025, to explore novel strategies for deepening your writing, with writers and presenters Greg Renz, Tammy Barthels, and Monica Lobenstein. Plenty of writing time, networking with other writers, and the inspiration of Trout Lake and the frosted forest at Marywood will feed your writer’s soul!
Arrive onsite at 3PM on Friday, February 21st, to check into your cabin with activities beginning at 4PM. Spend the day Saturday, February 22nd, experiencing presentations and engaging in exercises to deepen your writing. End on Sunday, February 23rd, with a Writers’ Wisdom Circle and departure at 12pm.
Cost to stay onsite in a private room in a shared cabin is $400. Cost for commuters is $280. To register, email us at marywood.center@gmail.com or call us at 715-385-3750.
Presentations:
Monica Lobenstein: University of Wisconsin Extension Experiential Learning State Program Manager.
The Courageous Pen
For many of us, internal filters, lifelong conditioning, or a vocal inner critic can stand in the way of our writing dreams. In this session, we’ll explore how journaling can help turn the full light of our attention on these shadows and barriers. We’ll practice with journal writing strategies to find our own courageous pens and become the writers we are meant to be.
Greg Renz: Award winning author of Beneath the Flames and Beyond the Flames.
Techniques for Writing Engaging Dialogue
Greg Renz, author of Beneath the Flames, had powerful stories to tell of his experiences as a Milwaukee firefighter. He applied the same passion he held for serving his community to honing the skills necessary to tell a truly inspiring story that captures the full emotion of what it means to rush into the midst of catastrophe. Greg will share with us his insights into crafting just such a novel.
Tammy Barthels: Artist and Spiritual Guide
Creative Journal Making
A beautiful reflection deserves to be housed within equally beautiful covers. You’ll fashion a writer’s journal
as a creative expression guaranteed to inspire your finest written work.
as a creative expression guaranteed to inspire your finest written work.
Mary Anne Smrz: author of Paddling with Thoreau and kayak retreat leader
Writers’ Wisdom Circle
Participants will “write” their own round table discussion with the presenters and one another. Bring your questions and share your experiences with writing and getting your words out to the world.
