Writing Retreat - Alchemizing to create a new reality

During this three-day writing retreat, we will share our most intimate, raw, and honest stories, the ones that haunt us as well as those we celebrate, and the ones that have transformed us.

Through a series of writing prompts, body & mind exercises, shamanic journeying, rune readings, native drumming, group meditation, and a final performance, we will take the stories of the past, those that no longer serve us, and allow the ones that do to come through to alchemize ourselves a new future.

Allow your voice to be heard and take this opportunity to write supported in community.

Friday Eve: Welcome Ceremony

Sat Morning: Writing, Communal Lunch

Sat Afternoon: Writing, Evening Ceremonial Exercises

Sun Morning: Writing, Communal Lunch

Sun Afternoon: Writing, Final Evening Performance

"In this workshop, I felt like I was entering the gut of my soul, and when I came out, for the first time in my life, I didn't want to run. I felt no fear, only love." - Workshop Participant, 2022

Your guides

Mackenzie W. Kell

Mackenzie W. Kell has been writing for over thirty years and has performed poetry and personal monologues on stage for much of her adult life. She has taught English/Creative Writing at the college level and in private schools. Mackenzie has published multiple poems and essays, and served as a literary editor for a number of years.

A storyteller at heart, she is currently writing a script for a television series. Her greatest goal is to take her self-discovery, life experience, and love for writing and share it with the greater community, so that they too can explore their voices, their stories, and personal growth.

She is the founder and teacher of the monologue writing series "If Truth Be Told."

Rose E. Wollf

Rose E. Wollf is a poet with an MA in Creative Writing, an educator with an MA in Education, and a certified Forest & Nature educator. She is also a licensed hypnotherapist and Shamanic practitioner studying animism and indigenous ways of living & thinking. Currently, she is receiving a certification in forest therapy and sanctuary.

She alchemizes communion with nature and indigenous practices for expanding and deepening consciousness to inspire the bloom of imagination and voice. Her poems have been featured in The Best American Poetry, The Southeast Review, Able Muse, Espresso Ink and read on NPR.

Time & Location

Feb 17, 6:00 PM – Feb 19, 9:00 PM

Callicoon, 132 Hospital Rd, Callicoon, NY 12723, USA

Price:

From $369 to $639 with service fee