5- DAY
RESIDENTIAL RETREAT
LOCATION:
A beautiful country hotel at Ryzmburk, in a green paradise
overlooking Grandmother's Valley, the setting for Babička the
beloved first novel in the Czech language by Božena Němcová .Sit
with the trees and find your creative compass, commune with the
horses, share dreams. ideas and daily pages at the breakfast table
and on the terrace in the evening, enter the rhythms of earth and
wind, water and fire.

GETTING
THERE: If you are coming from Prague, you'll find it easy to get to
Ceska Skalice, the nearest town, by train or car and our coordinator
will help you get to our wonderful site.
TUITION:
500 euros or 12,750 Czech crowns. A deposit of 100 euros or 2,500
Czech crowns is required to hold your place.
ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS are additional, at quite modest prices. Our
coordinatior will give you details and make your reservation.
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION: Please contact the coordinator, Eva
Dostálová, email dostalova.eva@seznam.cz
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Wednesday-Sunday, September 12-16
Česká Skalice, Czech Republic
WRITING AS A STATE OF CONSCIOUS DREAMING
This is the first time Robert has
led his celebrated writing retreat - possibly the most unusual on
the planet - in Europe. We are expected a very lively and creative
international gathering with writers at every level of practice
joining us from all over the map. One of the novelties of this
retreat is that, while the group sessions will be in English,
participants will be welcome to write in their own languages. We
hope for wonderful cross-pollination of idioms and imaginations.
Where else can you hope that a group of
lively spirits will play-act the next chapters of your unfinished
novel, or be enabled to journey to a Secret Library where you can
read and bring back pages you have not yet written in the ordinary
world, and confer with a master teacher?
In a writing life, the great moments are when you are dreaming
on paper (or on a keyboard). Words stream almost effortlessly from
springs that are not accessible in lesser states of consciousness.
Clock time no longer rules. In an expansive now-time, more is
possible in minutes than might otherwise come in days. Improbable
connections are made and prove to be exactly right.
This is a state of conscious dreaming. You straddle the worlds. You
are the shaper, not merely the amanuensis, for the images bubbling
up from those fresh springs.
If you've ever been there, you long to be there again. It's what
athletes call the Zone. It's that sweet place where time
moves as fast or slow as you want, and creative connections are made
effortlessly. It's the state of relaxed attention in which the muse
or the creative daimon draws close and whispers in your ear. It's
the borderland beyond the tame fields and picket fences of the mind,
where it's easy for the Big story hunting you to find you.
This adventure in creative imagination will help you find fresh and
delightful ways to tap into your creative source, and tell the
stories that want to be told through you. We'll learn how to use
powerful and original techniques of Active Dreaming to go beyond
blocks and move seamlessly into creative flow. We’ll turn dreams and
life memories into stories, poems and scripts.
Our practice will include timed writing exercises, story-swapping,
play-acting, shamanic excursions to a Secret Library and other
wonderful games to release our inner writer and creator. We’ll all
be nourished and nurtured as we grow a supportive circle of creative
friends.
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