The Writer’s Journey
Outside In and Back Again
and Infinite Possibilities of the Writer’s Experience
Pre-conference Workshops Friday, April 26
We are all writers in one form or another. The need to express ourselves is essential to our survival. The written word allows us to take what is hidden below the threshold of waking consciousness and shape it into a form of expression that delights, persuades, informs, and teaches others. Whether correspondence with a loved one, a dream in a diary, a final paper to graduate, an imaginative story, a poem, a textbook, or a life’s opus, writing is a vehicle to manifest the intangible into a tangible expression of who we are.
This conference will feature scholars, educators, mythologists, poets, psychoanalysts, and best-selling authors covering topics both conceptual and pragmatic—from birthing an idea to marketing through creative messaging…from the feminine heroic quest to writing as a way of healing…from the call of the muse to turning a dissertation into a mainstream book. Genres explored will include screenwriting, storytelling, imaginative writing, memoir, poetry, and clinical writing, among others.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Giving Birth, Finding Form
The Call of the Muses
Engaging the Feminine Heroic: Beyond the Hero’s Journey, the Other Side of the Story
Trickster/Mythographer/Ecopoet:
C.G. Jung’s Dramatic and Inaginative Writing of the Living Mysteries
Poetic Knowing and Poetic Writing
Depth of Character:
The Phenomenology and Soul of the Screenplay
The Art of Memoir Writing
Effective Storytelling in Marketing
Nekyia and Poeisis:
Mythologies of the Writing Process
Writing as a Way of Healing
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Riting Myth, Mythic Writing:
Plotting Your Personal Story
Inside Story:
The Power of the Transformational Arc
Transforming Your Dissertation into a Mainstream Book
Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose:
A Clinical Writing WorkshopClick Here for Additional Information or RegistrationCONFERENCE
PRESENTERSJean Shinoda Bolen
Michael Meade
Dara Marks
Susan Rowland
Dennis Slattery
Sharon D. Johnson
Maureen Murdock
Kris Oster
Evans Lansing Smith
Lawrence Spann
Elizabeth Nelson
Suzi Naiburg
PROGRAM DATES
Friday, April 26
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Saturday, April 27
9:00 am-5:30 pm
Sunday, April 28
9:00 am-1:00 pm
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS:
Friday, April 26
9:00 am-4:30 pm
Accommodations are available at Pacifica’s Ladera Lane Campus
CONFERENCE TUITION
$375 General Admission
$325 Special Admission
Full-Time Students, Pacifica Alumni, and Seniors
$300 Active Pacifica Students
All meals are included in conferenceand pre-conference workshop fees.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS:
$140 Full Day
9:00 am-4:30pm
$70 Half Day
1:30 pm-4:30 pm
and 1:30 pm-4:30 pm
CONFERENCE CREDITS
11 Continuing
Education Credits
MFTs, LCSWs, and RNs
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP CREDITS:
Full Day – 6 Credits
MFTs, LCSWs, and RNs
Half Day – 3 Credits
MFTs, LCSWs, and RNs
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