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Seasons of the Heart

--a time for Reflecting, Remembering & Writing

Heartspace Writing School Presents A Transformative Life Writing™ Retreat

Co-facilitated by Joanne Klassen and friends

Friday February 17 and Saturday February 18 2012


Whether you've never written a personal story or have been writing for years,
this workshop will provide the atmosphere, support, encouragement, tools and
inspiration to visit the seasons of your life and capture family stories worth re-
discovering to illuminate the path ahead on your personal journey.

 

  • Bring a notebook, pen and willingness to transcend the mundane
  • We'll visit all seasons: Birth & Childhood, Teen Years, Adulthood and Later Life
  • Discover the hidden treasure of your own lived experience
  • Create links between present moments, imagination, memory and inspiration

Registration: $50 – Reserves your place
*Tuition: $100
Fees include the retreat, workshop materials, beverages & GST

Location : Lindenwoods Estates, Common Room
495 Lindenwoods Drive East
Winnipeg, MB R3P 2R7

To register email: jklassen@write-away.net

Or call (204) 452-1941 or 488-4984

*Limited to the first 12 registrants.

 

--New Course Offering--
Creating Living Legacies

Is this the year for you to write your family story?

 

Be sure to register early for this new course  

Creating Living Legacies

Who, what, why, when, where, and how to write life stories
with meaning, using Transformative Writing

Facilitated by Joanne Klassen and Eleanor Chornoboy
of Heartspace Writing School ( www.write-away.net )

March 12 & 19, 2012 (7:00 – 9:30 p.m.)

1310 Taylor Ave. (March 12)
600 Shaftesbury Blvd. (March 19)

Cost: $50 (includes both evenings and all materials).
Limited to 15 participants
.

Sponsored jointly by the Mennonite Heritage Centre
and the Centre for MB Studies

T
o register, call one of the Centres at either 888-6781 or 669-6575

Payment can be made by cheque or credit card
Registration deadline: February 15, 2012.

 


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


 


NEWS! The European Centre for Transformative Life Writing was formed in April 2010 as a partnership between Heartspace Writing School’s Director, Joanne Klassen and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre of Birmingham, England. This provides Woodbrooke's outstanding educational and administrative resources to offer easy access for both European and North American audiences for Transformative Life Writing.

Life Writing for Transformation programs at Woodbrooke have been over-subscribed for the last several years. In April 2011 ten facilitators will begin training to offer Life Writing for Transformation in a variety of locations in Europe and North America.

The first workshop request was received from Sweden within days after the Centre was established.

To learn more about program opportunities contact: Stuart Masters
stuart.masters@woodbrooke.org.uk

or Joanne Klassen
jklassen@write-away.net



Joanne Klassen

Life Writing For Transformation

With Joanne Klassen and Eleanor Chornoboy
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, England
April, 2012
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

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 at
Canadian Mennonite University
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2012.


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



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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