The Heart of the Heartland Online

The Heart of the Heartland Presents a special 5 week ongoing writing course Writing Your Spiritual Journey Presented by Lisa Rosenthal Wednesdays beginning October 22nd - November 19th, 2008 Please note that the spiritual journey workshop beginning Weds Sept 17th is full Hosted at the home of Wini Nimrod*, 1333 Pine Street Glenview, IL    *RSVP and advanced payment is required for this event

	This workshop will begin by building a foundation of trust to share our writing. Guidelines for effectively responding to others writing will be reviewed. A writing exercise focused on our spiritual journeys will be given and participants will write and then share their writing with the group at the first meeting. I will guide the group to apply effective responding techniques to make this a safe and positive environment for all participants. Exploring the various stages of one’s spiritual journey—or journey to greater consciousness—will be explored. Participants will be given at-home writing assignments to create writing to share at each subsequent meeting. By the end of this workshop it’s my hope that this will grow into a self-sustaining group. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” —Henry David Thoreau
Lisa Rosenthal leads writing workshops and is a writing group facilitator to encourage young-career writers and those who seek a new form of self- expression. She works as a writing coach assisting more experienced writers refine their manuscripts. She is a freelance book editor and has edited over 100 published books. She is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and an affiliated artist at American Theater Company. Her plays have received productions in Chicago and New York, as well as cities in California, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. She’s been the recipient of a number of playwriting awards, a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant and a Tremaine Fellowship. She is the author of A Dog’s Best Friend and editor of The Writing Group Book: Creating and Sustaining an Effective Writing Group. Please visit her Web site at www.lisarosenthal.com for more information about her current projects.