The Voice of Power, Presence, and Wisdom: An Experiential Workshop

(a poetry dojo™ offer
in partnership with The Strozzi Institute)

When our voices line up with our deepest care, our wildest humor, our sadness, our longing, or our spirited intelligence, we touch what most needs to be expressed. We let who we are spill out in language. We deliver the best of ourselves—with power, presence, and wisdom. But what is it that inspires our most essential voice?

In this two-day workshop with poet, martial artist and somatic coach Renée Gregorio, you will explore getting to the heart of what matters through body awareness and writing practices. By engaging in new practices, you will experience having more access to the source of your expressiveness. You will come to know the place within you from which your most authentic voice springs.

This workshop is designed for:

• professional or creative writers who want to dive deeper into authentic voice
• coaches who want to increase their abilities to use imagination and creativity in their work
• leaders who need to hone their speaking or writing abilities
• anyone who wants to say what they mean and mean what they say

This workshop will feature the following activities:

• body awareness practices that focus on developing a centered presence, deepening listening skills, attending to the feeling self, building capacity to more fully sense and feel experience, and giving voice to the wisdom of the body.
• writing & listening practices that develop participants’ ability to meet what’s outside of ourselves with openness and groundedness, sense the effect one’s language has on another, know one’s own essential voice.

Participants will come away with new-found ability to:

• speak the heart of what matters
  
• access the voice of directness
• express their truth with clarity and power

About Renée:
Renée Gregorio is a practicing martial artist with a third degree black belt rank in aikido, and a poet with a master's degree in creative writing from Antioch University, London, Renée has created the poetry dojo™, a learning environment in which participants gain in voice, expression, and power through writing and body-awareness practices. She’s a certified master somatic coach with the Strozzi Institute and also works individually with a wide range of people who want to move to the next level of expression, power and purpose. Her published collections of poetry include The Skins of Possible Lives (1996), The Storm That Tames Us (1999), Water Shed (2004), and Drenched (2010). For more information, see Renée’s page at Treschicasbooks.com

Details

Dates: August 28, 2010 from 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and August 29, 2010 from 9:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Location: Bend of Ivy Lodge, Asheville, NC

Lodging is available for this workshop, please note your interest in the comments field during registration, or email Jenny if you would like to stay at the lodge.  The cost for lodging is $62 per night (tax included).

Cost: $195 until July 31, $250 thereafter. Cost includes lunch for both days and a copy of Renée’s book, Water Shed.

Pre-registration required; space is limited. Register now.

Also, hear Renée read from her new book, Drenched, at Malaprop's Bookstore at 7:00 PM on Aug. 27. Renée and Laura Hope-Gill will share the evening.