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Online Writing Retreats: Moving Projects Forward

By December 3, 2020

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These writing retreats are for prioritizing writing time, receiving support for current writing projects, and moving projects forward.

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Online Writing Retreats: Join for a Day or Multiple Days

The following are upcoming writing retreat dates:

Thursday, June 2nd
Tuesday, June 14th
Saturday, June 25th
Wednesday, July 6th
Thursday, July 14th
Wednesday, July 20th

Each day will follow the same structure—with times listed here in Eastern time:

10:00-11:00am — Introductions, grounding, freewriting, and goal review
11:00-1:00pm — Writing time: write on your own (alongside others via Zoom)
1:00-1:45pm — Lunch/break on your own
1:45-2:00pm — Optional guided meditation for resting and resetting
2:00-2:15pm — Group check-in
2:15-4:15pm — Your choice: Writing on your own or partner feedback in breakout rooms or one-with-one feedback with Beth
4:15-4:30pm — Wrapping up and well wishes

Why participate in an online writing retreat?

Like writing groups, through writing retreats, we invest in ourselves, in our work, and in our commitments.

Specifically, writing retreats have the potential to:

  • Hold creative space for incubating, developing, and completing writing projects
  • Build and strengthen relationships among writers across distance
  • Maintain momentum for writing projects even when facing other due dates and demands on our time
  • Provide just-in-time support, mentoring, and processing of what comes up through and around writing
  • Co-create a life-giving writing environment where we can share ideas with engaged and supportive readers

To learn more about how I approach and why I believe in online writing spaces, check out “‘Hanging Out’: Cultivating Writing Groups Online,” a piece co-authored with former writing group members Tanya Cochran, Rasha Diab, and Thomas Ferrel.

When will writing retreats be offered?

Currently, there are six options to attend a day-long writing retreat (or combine multiple days into a longer retreat): June 2, 14, 25, and July 6, 14, 20. I’ll release more dates for coming months, so check back.

You could register for one of these day-long retreats or attend multiple days.

Each day will start at 10am EST | 9am CST | 8am MST | 7am PST.
We’ll meet together for 6 and ½ hours, or until 4:30pm EST.

After registering, you’ll receive information about how to join via Zoom. Participants are encouraged to join with video because retreats are interactive experiences. We’ll be a small group, so expect to introduce yourself and talk about your work-in-progress.

Because there’s often vulnerability and intimacy involved in talking about writing, there will be no recordings. Thanks for holding space for your writing and for others’ writing as well.

What is the cost?

There are three registration options:

  1. Pay the full price of $50 for a one-day retreat.
  2. Register for free if the cost is prohibitive for any reason. No questions asked.
  3. Become a Patreon subscriber at the sharer or sustainer tiers, and join for free.

Thanks to Patreon subscribers, who make the work here at Heart-Head-Hands: Everyday Living for Justice possible. If you’d like to support free registration options and more programming like this, become a subscriber via Patreon.

Yes: you can join multiple days! Register for all the days you’d like to attend.

And, yes: you can join for the morning only. There are many options.

Who will facilitate the writing retreat?

This program is offered by Beth Godbee, Ph.D., a public educator and writer with deep commitments to social, racial, and environmental justice.

Beth brings years of experience as a writer and writing teacher (previously tenured professor in composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies). Beth has both participated in and led writing groups (in-person and online) and has worked in writing centers, community literacy programs, and writing across the curriculum programs for many years.

How can I learn more?

Contact Beth with any questions, concerns, or accessibility considerations.

Thanks!

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writing retreat dates

$50: Thursday, June 2nd — Full Price Registration, $0: Thursday, June 2nd — Subscriber or Cost-Prohibitive Registration, $50: Tuesday, June 14th — Full Price Registration, $0: Tuesday, June 14th — Subscriber or Cost-Prohibitive Registration, $50: Saturday, June 25th — Full Price Registration, $0: Saturday, June 25th — Subscriber or Cost-Prohibitive Registration, $50: Wednesday, July 6th — Full Price Registration, $0: Wednesday, July 6th — Subscriber or Cost-Prohibitive Registration, $50: Thursday, July 14th — Full Price Registration, $0: Thursday, July 14th — Subscriber or Cost-Prohibitive Registration, $50: Wednesday, July 20th — Full Price Registration, $0: Wednesday, July 20th — Subscriber or Cost-Prohibitive Registration

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