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Past Events
"Method in Madness" Two-Day Opening Retreat
Saturday February 17 & Sunday February 18, 2024
A two-day Sit Walk Write retreat focused on how to read the classics, applying those guidelines while watching Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" (Kenneth Branagh version), and analyzing part of the text of Scene 2 Act 2, which contains the expression "method in madness."
If you signed up for the retreat, you can watch the recording here.
"Is Hamlet Mad?"
Half-Day Reading Down the Bones Retreat
Sunday March 10, 2024
A 3.5-hour retreat showing how the play "Hamlet" defines madness by closely reading the text and noticing that, already in Act 1, many passages implicitly unfold the different dimensions of the concept - especially when practicing, as readers, what Zen calls "don't know mind."
If you signed up for the retreat, you can watch the recording here.
"Feel What You Feel"
Half-Day Sit Walk Write Retreat
Sunday April 7, 2024
The first of three Spring 2024 "Writing Practice & Mindfulness" Retreats built around the theme "The Propensity to Be Bothered" as mentioned in Pema Chödrön's book How We Live Is How We Die. The April event focuses on the first step in working with difficult emotions (as writers, readers, and in daily life): how to turn towards and "be with" them.
If you signed up for the retreat, you can watch the recording here.
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