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Wide Open Writing Men's Writing Retreat
August 12-16, 2021
Single Occupancy: $1665
Double Occupancy: $1300
Prices are per person and include tuition, lodging, all meals (sample menu), and boat transportation to the Light Station from our mainland base. An additional 9% Maine state lodging tax will be charged on the meals and lodging portion of the fee.
Sorry, this course is full. If you want to put your name on the wait list for this course, fill out the registration form but do not send a deposit. We will contact you if space becomes available. If you have any questions, send an email to Gigi Lirot, Island Manager (info@whiteheadlightstation.org) or call Gigi at (207) 200-7957.
Men's Writing Workshop
A men's writing and wellness retreat to explore and open to the deeper self.
Through writing, physical movement, and abundant access to the richness that Whitehead Island offers, you'll have the opportunity to step beyond the limiting confines of todays "maleness". This is a time (personally and collectively) to open to a richer connection with self and the natural world, and beyond to friends, family, partners, children, and fellow travelers.
The joy of this experience comes from involving writing, nature, and other men who are drawn to both. Our retreats have repeatedly been touted as "a life-changing experience," "making life-long connections," and "connecting to purpose in new ways." We create opportunity for community to come to life, a community that takes care of its members with trust, friendship, support, and FUN. And that community in turn serves as a container for the richness of writing and participating with nature. Upon leaving the island, you'll leave with more than just what you have written.
The intention of this retreat is to support men opening to the deeper, kinder parts of themselves. With writing as a tool for exploration and expression, we provide prompts, writing feedback, and movement as pathways to sharing ourselves with others. Whether through fiction, non-fiction, memoir, sci-fi/fantasy, essay, poetry, or performance, we'll be developing a personal language that communicates our greatest passions and interests to a world sorely in need of authentic stories.
Instructor Profiles:
Hughes Kraft is a psychotherapist, writer and Certified Nature Therapy Guide (in training). He has been in private practice for 20+ years, focuses on men in the mid-life transition, runs a men's group and spends terrific time outside. He is excited to have the richness of nature, geologic time, beauty of Maine and a real island as a tool and metaphor to explore writing and the deeper nature of oneself. He builds bridges to connect to writing from the writer within. Through the use of reflective and contemplative writing; guidance in connecting with nature; body movement and having fun along the way Hughes is excited to share space with other men in the effort of writing and wellness.
Buddy Wakefield is a three-time world champion spoken word artist, the inaugural poet released on Write Bloody Publishing, founder of Awful Good Writers, and the most toured performance poet in history. Also an actor, producer, and an original Board of Directors member with Youth Speaks Seattle, Buddy is published in dozens of books internationally with work used to win multiple national collegiate debate and forensics competitions. In the spring of 2001 he left his position at a biomedical firm in Gig Harbor, WA, sold or gave away everything he owned, moved to the small town of Honda Civic, then set out to live for a living. He has not stopped.
Dana Yeaton is a playwright, lyricist, and director who teaches writing and oratory at Middlebury College. He is the recipient of the Heideman Award from the Actor's Theatre of Louisville and the "New Voice in American Theatre" award from the William Inge Theatre Festival. His full-length play Mad River Rising received the Moss Hart Award, and his first musical, Swing State, was a featured selection at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Dana was founding director of Vermont Young Playwrights and recently founded Oratory Now, a center for training and research in oral expression at Middlebury College. In his spare time, he is trying to spare some time.
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