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Poet Peter Levitt Workshop Opportunity

Peter’s website is at www.peterlevitt.com. Here’s Peter’s description of how Writer’s Studio works:

Each week I offer participants in Writer’s Studio a brief teaching and an exercise based on that teaching. These will appear in a folder on a secure, password protected website that will form our virtual classroom. (Each week’s exercise will be dated and have its own folder so you will easily be able to find it any time you like.) During the following week, participants will work with the teaching and exercise and, if they wish, they will be able to post their writing in a different folder for other participants to read. Once the writing is posted, discussion amongst participants can begin. Only those who have registered for Writer’s Studio will have access to the classroom and folders where the teaching, exercise, participant writings and discussion will appear. I will ask everyone to agree not to share the exercises or the writing with friends who have not registered. This seems a fair enough commitment and works to everyone’s benefit.

The software that creates our classroom has proven to be very easy to use, even to those amongst us who are techno-phobic, so please don’t be daunted by previous online experiences. Participants will be organized into small groups to ensure that you are not overwhelmed with too much posting, reading or discussion; the small group format also maximizes the sharing, support, trust, communication and learning as you and other group members discuss the writing and any writer’s issues that come up. I will participate quite a bit in the discussion regarding the process of writing, which has proven to be of great use to people, but I won’t be critiquing the weekly writing. That would be too costly from a participant’s standpoint and is available from me outside of Writer’s Studio courses. Besides, the level of discussion offered by group members has proven to be supportive, useful, specific, and deeply encouraging in every single course I’ve offered. It is one of the real treasures of the Writer’s Studio.

Posting your writing is entirely voluntary – you may do so at any time or not at all. We’ve never had a problem in Writer’s Studio, but I am a strong believer in online etiquette and will keep a close eye on the groups to be sure that the discussions maintain an environment that is safe, positive, supportive, and exciting.

Important note: Sometimes it is nice to have friends in your group, and sometimes it feels good to simply work with people you don’t yet know. If you have any “include me with…..” preferences, I will do my best to honour them so please let me know on your registration form.

The teachings and exercises I’ve created for Writer’s Studio will help you to go to that generous and deep place within you from which authentic writing spontaneously emerges. As often as not they will take you by surprise, which tends to generate genuine writing. This has been my approach for more than three decades of teaching. Of course, my weekly offerings will rise out of my particular orientation, which many people in my workshops seem to enjoy and find inspiring, so if you think you’d like to have a bit of this in your life, welcome aboard. I also encourage you to let your other writing friends know about this opportunity, so please give my email address to interested friends as soon as possible.

My email address is levgram@telus.net

The Chickasaw Plum - Volume VI - Number 5 - May 2009

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