Earlier this month, I announced that I would be teaching a Blogging Workshop the first weekend of November, the 7th and the 8th, 2015. That has changed. I had a better idea for now.
I’m going to move that workshop to the Spring of 2016 and instead, I’m whittling this workshop down drastically: I’ve invited one student, Pamela Rickenbach of Blue Star Equiculture to come to Bedlam Farm (and Pompanuck Farm) and we will have our own private weekend workshop.
She has wanted her own blog for a long time, and so she shall have it. She accepted, eagerly.
We’ll go back and forth between here and Pompanuck, a beautiful place to think and walk and talk and rest.
This will be an exciting creative exercise. I’ll provide the creative direction and writing help along with Maria. Rachel Barlow, a friend and an artist and tech whiz, will help Pamela choose her blog format and help set it up. We will chronicle our progress and post this journey in (almost) real time here on my blog as it evolves, and also on hers, when it is up and running. So everyone out there can join in the workshop too and see what we have done together.
Maria is going to be a part of it, also, and I hope to invite several members of the Creative Group at Bedlam Farm to come and join in for some of the workshop discussions and in support of Pamela, who spoke her so movingly this past weekend and touched so many souls.
Creativity is one of the most powerful healing medicines there is, I can testify to it. My blog is one of the great joys of my life, it has helped me give rebirth to my life, my work, and given me a community of supportive and wondrous souls to share my journey.
When Pamela goes home Sunday night she will have a neat blog up and running and will have posted her first story on it.
Pamela is figuring out her life, and has had a transforming time in recent months, she needs a peaceful and healing weekend in the country. Bedlam Farm seems a good place for that, for reasons I don’t always completely understand. It touches people.
Pamela is a fiercely creative soul, a mystic, and a wonderful story-teller and writer. I’ve been badgering her for some time now to start her own blog. She is thinking of a new future for herself at some point, I would love to be a part of it, and her blog will help guide her and connect her to those people might wish to know.
This is a good time for her to give voice to her story. She is honest and has the most wonderful stories to tell.
This is a very exciting thing for me – for us – to be doing. I am a warrior for the creative spark, so is Maria, creativity gives voice and identity to people and unleashes the most powerful spirits inside of us. This weekend will also combine friendship, creativity, identity, technology and a hero journey together.
I talked Pamela about it this morning, and she is as excited as we are. So is Maria. She and Pamela are sisters, joined at the soul. Pamela and I are close friends, we see the world in so much the same way. (Although there are differences. I am never getting on one of those horses.)
We hope to envelop her in a cloud of loving and supportive people, dogs, donkeys, horses, barn cats, good conversation, lots of ideas. Pamela loves seeing photos of Fate, she caught her joyous and independent spirit right away. Fate will join in, along with the rest of the gang.
And maybe that is the future of my workshops – one at a time. Love and learning, overflowing with small gestures, one at a time. If you are interested in blogging, look for us here November 7 and 8.