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• Celebrating the Writer Within - Fall Session 2009
• Celebrating the Writer Within - Winter Session 2009/10
• Write for Your Life a One Day Workshop
• Write Away! A Transformative Life Writing Retreat

• Life Writing for Transformation
• Life Writing At CMU
• Books For Sale

 

What's Your Story?

what's Your Story?

         When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. --John Ruskin.

 


"No writing has any real value which is not the expression
of genuine thought and feeling." -- Eleanor Roosevelt


 

. Celebrating the Writer Within - Fall Session 2009
8 Weekly Workshops
Begin September 16, 2009


Are you ready to transform your experiences into memorable stories?

Do you want to find ways to ensure that writing is a satisfying part of your life?

In a supportive small group, you will learn and use 25 Tools of Transformative Writing
to glide past the inner critic and discover or re-discover your vibrant, authentic voice.


Celebrating the Writer Within is facilitated by Heartspace founder, Joanne Klassen. Since 1997 Joanne has helped hundreds of writers achieve their goals.
She's the author and editor of more than a dozen books and anthologies. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications. More than 30 Heartspace authors have produced locally best selling books.

This 8-week program is guaranteed to unlock the treasure chest of story experiences waiting to transform your life and touch the hearts of readers.



Limited to 10 writers.
Choose Daytime or Evening Classes:

Daytime Classes meet: 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Evening Classes meet: 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Location: Osborne Village, Central Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Registration: $50 plus GST ($2.50) - Tuition: $300 plus GST ($15.00), payable to Heartspace.

To register, email Joanne


Celebrating the Writer Within - January Session 2009/10

Starting Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Are you ready to transform your experiences into memorable stories?

Do you want to find ways to ensure that writing is a satisfying part of your life?

In a supportive small group, you will learn and use 25 Tools of Transformative Writing
to glide past the inner critic and discover or re-discover your vibrant, authentic voice.

Celebrating the Writer Within is facilitated by Heartspace founder, Joanne Klassen. Since 1997 Joanne has helped hundreds of writers achieve their goals. She's the author and editor of more than a dozen books and anthologies. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications. More than 30 Heartspace authors have produced locally best selling books.

This 8-week program is guaranteed to unlock the treasure chest of story experiences waiting to transform your life and touch the hearts of readers.

Limited to 10 writers.
Choose Daytime or Evening Classes:

Daytime Classes meet: 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Evening Classes meet: 7:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Location: Osborne Village, Central Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Registration: $50 plus GST ($2.50) - Tuition: $300 plus GST ($15.00), payable to Heartspace.

To register, email Joanne

 


Write for Your Life

A one day Transformative Writing™ Workshop
With Cynthia Firth and Joanne Klassen

This workshop guides participants to uncover and rediscover essential stories
that serve as guideposts  for living with purpose and passion.

Saturday, November 21, 2009, in Winnipeg 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Registration: $50, Tuition: $100 plus GST

Limited to 12 participants.
To register, email Joanne


Write Away! A Transformative Life Writing Retreat

Saturday, February 14, 2009 with Joanne Klassen and Terina Henry in Winnipeg.

This retreat is filled with techniques, time, inspiration, and support to start, re-start, and continue the flow of stories born of life experience, using the tools of Transformative Writing

Registration: $50 Tuition: $100 plus GST includes instruction, breaks and lunch.
Overnight accommodation available.

Limited to 12 writers.
To register: email Joanne


NEW: Life Writing For Transformation

WIth Joanne Klassen and Eleanor Chornoboy
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, England

April 12 - April 16, 2010

For more information and and to register visit http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk or email: enquiries@woodbrooke.org.uk


Life Writing At CMU

A Week of Transformation with Joanne Klassen and Eleanor Chornoboy at
Canadian Mennonite University
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 10 - 14 2010.

Limited to the first 10 registrants, no qualification requirements.
For more information and to register visit: http://www.cmu.ca/writing_school.html

 

Books For Sale

Tools Of Transformation

Tools of Transformation: Write Your Way to New Worlds of Possibility - in Just 5 Minutes by Joanne Haynes Klassen

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If you want to bring the best of yourself to the rest of your life, Tools of Transformation is a book you'll find packed with helpful guidance, illustrations, and exercises.

Joanne Klassen's book Tools Of Transformation is used in all Heartspace Writing Classes.


Time For A Story?

Time For A Story?

An anthology of stories from 13 Heartspace writers spanning four generations.

$16.95

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or Call 204-736-4800

 

Learning To Live, Learning To Love

Learning to Live, Learning to Love by Joanne Haynes Klassen

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Beautifully told through words and pictures, the Learning To Live, Learning To Love, describes the human journey toward openness, forgiveness and fulfilment. In this book you will discover ways to increase self-worth, understand addictions, communicate effectively, and joyfully experience life moment by moment.


Trouble In Grandpa's Golf Bag

Trouble In Grandpa's Golf Bag by Joanne Haynes Klassen

 

What trouble is brewing in Grandpa's golf bag? Curl up beside Grandma and hear about how Grandpa's birthday present, a shiny new golf club, causes an upset when it brags to the other clubs that it is Grandpa's favourite.

Whether golf clubs or family members, the newest often gets lots of attention. Trouble in Grandpa's Golf Bag gives children a glimpse of the range of feelings they may have. The story ends with the reassurance that, oldest or newest, have you guessed? Inside our hearts we love each of you best.

$19.95 Canadian plus shipping and handling. $15.95 USA plus shipping and handling.

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or Call 204-736-4800


Faspa

Faspa - A Snack Of Mennonite Stories by Eleanor Chornoboy

 

Faspa; teatime, coffee-break; a coffee and snack time between lunch and supper.

Kjenn Jie Noch Plautdietsch? A Mennonite Low German Dictionary by Herman Rempel

Faspa is a smorgasbord of Mennonite stories with universal appeal. The pages are filled with stories and anecdotes about the rural way of life ofthe second and third generation Canadians – Mennonite Canadians.

The stories are spiced with a healthy dose of humour, a deep sense of pathos, and practical, home grown information. Read about:

  • toilet training with straw
  • farming with stubborn broncos
  • home grown medical practices
  • the impact of Mennonite sons going off to war
  • rural telephone party lines
  • and much, much more.

Each page offers a glimpse of Mennonite life. The reader is given a taste of what has been left in the past, and an appetite for the savoury traditions of today like Faspa.

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or Call 204-736-4800


Snow Angels

Snow Angles by Eleanor Chornoboy

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or Call 204-736-4800

Snow Angels is a beautiful story that touches the heart and lingers there long after, as a loving gesture would. It will delight children and the child in all of us with its tale of winter magic and the gifts of pure kindness and love.- Marjorie Anderson, Editor of Dropped Threads