TOPICS EXPLORED IN THIS 6-SERIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING*:

FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS 

Tragic and beautiful energies in Family Bonds help us create the stories of our own lives.  Exploring family systems helps us learn story is never just about you, but about everybody who came befoer you.thinking time is something being explored by quantum physicists for years. Time helps us shape our lives and shape our stories. As writers we are alchemists of time, being able to bend it and build a unique relationship with it that invites us, and our stories, into the eternal.

CHAOS – THE SEED OF GROWTH

Most growth begins with chaos. Though it feels like a free fall, all chaos precedes clarity.

SYNCHRONICITY –

Carl Jung said, “trust that which gives you meaning and consider that your guide.” We may consider our lives random, but we know synchROnicity is the alchemy needed to show us what is next and why.  Even wrong turns are synchronistic while the universe finds any way to redirect us.

THE WORK OF OUR LIVES

How we contribute to their world around us helps define us and the world. Not just through our lives as a writers, but the evolution through the work we do and what we leave behind.

TIME – SHAPING OUR STORIES

Rethinking time is something that has been explored by quantum Physicists for years, turned into science fiction, and teasing us with its possibilities. Time shapes our stories. Writers are able to bend it and build a unique relationship with time that invites our stories to become immortal.

REMEMBRANCE

Dreams and memories sometimes flow together like two great bodies of water, offering us creative alchemy to bring our stories to life. Writers since the beginning of time know that dreams inform their lives and their stories. In this class we will invite our dreams and memories to take our stories deeper into a place we might not normally explore.

*Topics in this series are not in order they are taught, and subject to change.

Laura Lentz is the author of  STORYquest, the Writer, the Hero, the Journey and the soon to be published book of essays I Remember Tomorrow. Laura is a writing teacher and developmental editor, teaching creative writing workshops online and on the north shore of Kauai for ten years. Her workbook helps writers write to every stage of their story inspired by the Hero’s Journey through 12-weeks of writing prompts and examples out of best selling memoirs and poetry. Laura helps writers create content and expand their body of work through unique methods – offering challenging and thought provoking writing prompts inspired by poetry, mythology and segments from literature.

Laura creates the curriculum for the 6-week writing workshops also taught by Guest Teachers.

Laura’s 6-week workshops are online and on the north shore of Kauai. Laura serves on the faculty of The Kauai Writers Conference, Covid willing… and is conducting a Master Class for writers who want to write their Hero’s Journey.

Sage is a licensed and trained marriage and family therapist. Sage’s work ceneters around grief, dying and sexuality, and her extraordinary facilitator feedback will help you receive the kind of attention that leads to growth as a writer. Her trained ear and love of literature, and deep understanding of the creative process as a sacred healing act, makes us proud to bring Sage in as a writing teacher in the next series, Tragically Beautiful.

Sage will be teaching Saturday mornings, the same curriculum as Laura and Robin.

Sage earned her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, Holistic Studies from John F. Kennedy University. Her training includes trans-personal psychology (spiritual focus) and somatic psychology (physical focus).