Sunday Sacred Writing Circles
Does writing call to you as a sacred expression? A place to rest your heart on the page with your words?
Or perhaps it’s a place to come alive? Whatever form of expression you like, it matters not. Bring it with you. Or just show up and see what wants to reveal itself on the page.
Join us on select Sundays for Sacred Writing Circles.
We’ll enjoy a variety of writing exercises drawn from my ever-growing, overflowing creative writing toolbox.
Writing has the power to stop time, cut through the extraneous, and take us home to our heart. This absolutely fun experience will engage the writer within and may surprise you by eliciting prose, poetry, song lyrics, or simply stream of consciousness writing in “no apparent form.” You will learn the fundamentals of moving past the head and into the heart of writing.
As you know, because of the pandemic, we’re not getting together in person these days! So I’m offering virtual Sunday Sacred Writing Circles online using Zoom.
Please get yourself on my email list (if you aren’t already) to get notifications for upcoming calls.
Cost: 18.00 REGISTER HERE
Sacred Writing Circles via Zoom will be a time to join with others in sacred community — to show up where you are, as you are, and be held in the holiest, respectful way.
Dates: Sundays, starting April 2020
Time: 10 am – noon Pacific Time
Find more information here: www.junieswadron.com/workshops/circles
Write Your Story!
As I launch my latest book, Your Life Matters! 8 Simple Steps to Writing Your Story, I am also offering a brand new memoir-writing program.
If you are interested in writing your memoir with my personal help, please book a 1-hour complimentary phone call with me on my online calendar. We can decide at that time if you are ready, and how I can best serve you.
If writing your stories is something you have considered, but you don’t know where or how to begin, or if you are nervous that no one would read it, or if you’re wondering what is special about your life (I assure you: all of your stories and everything that you have lived is sacred!), please book a call and we’ll talk about it.
First things first! You can get a signed advance copy of Your Life Matters here, or download a free digital copy here: www.junieswadron.com/memoir
Creativity in the Time of Corona:
Accessing Your Creative Genius During Challenging Times
Join this 4-hour interactive masterclass and bring out the best creative expression of your Self, the one who has been waiting in the wings, ready to soar!
What: Masterclass: Creativity in the Time of Corona: Accessing Your Creative Genius During Challenging Times
Date: To be announced soon, 2020
Time: 11 am – 3 pm Pacific Time
Location: Zoom
Learn more and register here: www.junieswadron.com/corona
Shine Your Light The Artist’s Way
Living Your True Creative Purpose
Are you ready to take the learnings from your past experiences that were fraught with challenges and turn them into brand new success stories?
Are you ready to reclaim your innocence and creativity and live a life of true meaning and purpose?
ARE YOU READY to Shine Your Light the Artist’s Way?
This exclusive 13-week program is designed specifically for people who are ready TO SOAR!
What: Shine Your Light The Artist’s Way, a 13-week program with Junie Swadron
Date: TBD, 2020
Location: Zoom
Fun(d)Raising Campaign for the Academy for Creative and Healing Arts for People with Mental Health Challenges (ACHA)
I have a dream! It is to co-create a facility where people with mental health challenges can take part in an array of creative and expressive arts and healing modalities in the downtown core of Victoria. Creative expression is what makes our spirit soar. It is innately who we are; we are creative beings. We are born with the gift of imagination. Images and ideas spring seemingly from out of nowhere and there are no limits to where our imaginations can take us.
Please consider helping by donating via our GoFundMe page. This is TRULY A DREAM WHOSE TIME HAS COME, and any contribution is gratefully welcomed with sincere gratitude, from my heart to yours.
Read more about the project here: www.junieswadron.com/mental-health
Past Events
Special Moments in Time — A Writing Workshop with Junie Swadron
When: Thursday, February 27, 2020
Time: 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Where: New Horizons, 234 Menzies Street, Victoria, BC
Cost: $50 for members; $60 for non-members
Registration: Please call New Horizons at 250-386-3035 to register
More info: www.junieswadron.com/
If you want to write a book, or you think you might want to write a book, this is a perfect opportunity to explore that possibility.
Parables, folk tales, and legends are what stories are made of, and every human life is filled with many. This delightful afternoon is designed to help you remember and record some of the significant and exceptional times in your life. The treasure troves. The keepsakes. The ones you’ll want to share and cherish forever.
I’m also offering a 9-week series that you won’t want to miss, beginning in April, called: Your Life Matters! (named after my newly published #1 Best Seller on Amazon in 3 categories, if I do say so myself).
So if you think you might want to write your stories, come and get a taste of what it would be like, at Special Moments in Time at New Horizons this Thursday, February 27th. I’ll be there to greet you with books in hand!
Everything You Want to Know About Book Publishing
and What It Takes to Create a Great Book
A presentation by Craig Shemilt, with an introduction by Junie Swadron
Craig’s lecture is endorsed by the Federation of BC Writers and the Canadian Author’s Association
When: Monday, January 13, 2020
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm (registration 6:00 pm)
Where: Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria
Cost: $18 in advance. $20 at the door
Publisher Craig Shemilt will be giving an informative presentation on what it takes to produce an excellent book and marketing strategies. He will discuss why authors are turning to self-publishing giving his expertise on book publishing, printing, editing, design, formatting, ebooks, and the book market.
Writers and authors, you will leave this presentation with a wealth of information and the tools you need to successfully publish your book!
Potluck Dinner and Wisdom Talks
The inaugural gathering is set for Friday, November 1, 2019 at 6 pm.
Theme: Celebrating Our Life Journey. Let’s share some of our favourite life stories, break bread, get to know one another, listen, laugh, eat, drink and be merry!
Please email me (junie@junieswadron.com) to let me know if you’re coming, and tell me what are some of the subjects you would like to discuss on these evenings. You can also suggest movies that we can watch that we can pick up at the library, rent or you may have in your possession. We can watch inspirational YouTube videos and talks and as well, we can mix in Games Night every now and again. Fun, Freeing, Futuristic, F-nominal! ????
Tell me what you’d like and let’s do it. My home is made for community and you’re my community.
I am delighted to host, but expect everyone to chip into setting up and cleaning up afterward.
I am considering the following dates: The first Friday of every month beginning Friday, November 1st. If there’s lots of interest, I’m willing to open it to the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. Email me at junie@junieswadron.com.
Poetic Reflections on the Dynamics of Change — Part 1
When: Sunday November 17th, at 11 am
What: Junie Swadron will be the speaker at the Church of Truth on Sunday morning
Where: Church of Truth, Community of Conscious Living: 111 Superior Street in James Bay, Victoria, BC
We can all read the poetry of Rumi or Hafiz, David Whyte, and Mary Oliver and have our hearts lifted to the heavens by the simple weaving of their words. But what if the harshest circumstances of your life were also considered poetry? Poetry in Motion. Events, when funnelled through the heart of awareness, become the alchemy of Grace leading you to transformation, leaving you triumphant, a Phoenix rising up from the ashes.
Poetry in Motion. The hidden Trickster lurking round the corner. God’s secret design to mold us humans into a poem of all possibilities. Divinity showing off its finest attire. Forcing us to transcend and traverse as we forge through parched deserts and darkened forests, swamps and jungles until we emerge upon sparkling waters and coral-coloured beaches, leading to abundant meadows of dancing wildflowers kissed by sunbeams and rainbows.
Yes, we are God’s Ever-Expanding Creations of Poetry. Tentative. Unsuspecting. Naïve perhaps, yet all the same, Blindingly beautiful. Each of us. All of us. Perfect Poetry in Motion.
Poetic Reflections on the Dynamics of Change — Part 2
When:Wednesday November 20th at 7 pm
What: An evening of writing, sharing, being witnessed
Where: Church of Truth, Community of Conscious Living: 111 Superior Street in James Bay, Victoria, BC
Continuing where I left off on Sunday, I will be offering an experiential evening to uncover the poetry that dwells hidden within your personal stories. Watch them emerge upon the paper as your inner muse takes hold of the pen. This is an evening of writing, sharing, being witnessed. It is an evening of alchemy, transformation and triumph! You do not want to miss it!
Red Carpet Book Launch!
Join me Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 1 pm Pacific Time (4 pm ET) for an online book launch event!
The publisher of my new book, Your Life Matters! Learn How to Write Your Memoir in 8 Easy Steps, is hosting a free online launch party, featuring me, along with some other amazing authors on a Red Carpet Book Launch.
We’ll be giving away links to download all our books for free to everyone who attends, as well as thousands of dollars’ worth of free personal development and self-help resources!
All you need to do to be a part of my Virtual Book Launch Party is to register right here:
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Not only will you take part in the launch party, but you will also learn why I was attracted to join The Author Incubator. If it’s your dream to write a book AND get it published, in one package, with so much more, I highly recommend this company.
Register here:
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Summer Solstice and The Healing Power of Creativity
A Dream Whose Time Has Come!
Re-Igniting “ACHA” — The Academy of Creative and Healing Arts
Date: June 21, 2019
We are still raising funds for this project! To find out how you can support the Academy of Creative and Healing Arts, please see this page: www.junieswadron.com/mental-health
*FREE* Write Where You Are 7-Day Challenge!
I’m excited to share this with you! It’s a transformational writing challenge to prepare you for an outstanding, life-altering journey — and I don’t say that lightly!
In this free challenge you’ll receive daily guided meditations that will help you shift old patterns, beliefs, and ideas.
In only 10 minutes of journal writing a day, you’ll develop a dedicated writing practice and anchor in new strengths and undeniable positivity! Challenge begins May 15, 2019.
Write Yourself Home
A Fun & Profound One-Day Writing Workshop for Seasoned and Fledgling Writers
Whether you are a beginning writer or an author of many books, Write Yourself Home is for you!
For the Love of Writing, For the Love of Self
Join us for this two-day sacred writing workshop in the Comox Valley. If you could take two days to pause, reflect, and harness your creative soul, where would that take your writing journey?
If you could take some time to spark your muse and nurture your intuitive process, what new magic would burst forth from your pen? During these two days of reflection and creative expression you will explore your relationship with writing as a sacred path.
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 6 – 7, 2018
Time: Saturday 9:30 – 5:00; Sunday 10:00 – 5:00
Where: Comox Marina Park: Spinnaker Pavilion, 1805 Beaufort Avenue, Comox, BC
Cost: $225
Memoir Workshop Series (8 weeks)
Join this fun-filled “get it on the page” 8-week workshop to celebrate your life’s journey. Re-visit and embrace the milestones that have made your life rich with meaning, bring new clarity and understanding to old circumstances, laugh and cry at the meanderings of your life, and learn to fully appreciate yourself and all the characters who have played a starring role.
By the end of the course, you will have written many of your favourite stories, created an outline for a full memoir, and you will have the necessary tools to continue the process with enthusiasm and joy!
When: Mondays, September 24 – November 19, 2018 (no class Thanksgiving Day, Oct 8)
Where: Junie’s home studio in James Bay, Victoria
Time: 12:30 – 3:00 pm
Cost: $265 (pay in one or two installments)
Author Support Group (8 weeks)
Have you given any thought to writing a book, blog (travel, how-to), memoir, play, a series of short stories, stand-up comedy, or continuing something that you have started but put down for one reason or another? The Author Support Group gives you the structure and constructive feedback you need to keep you on track with your project, allowing your voice on the page to become your voice in the world!
When: Saturdays, October 13 – December 8, 2018 (no class December 1)
Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Where: Junie’s home studio in James Bay, Victoria
Cost: $265 (pay in one or two installments)
Everything You Want to Know about Book Publishing and What It Takes to Create a Great Book
A presentation by Craig Shemilt, with an introduction by Junie Swadron — Beyond Writer’s Block
When: Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm (registration 6:00 pm)
Where: Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria
Cost: $18 in advance. $20 at the door
Publisher Craig Shemilt will be giving an informative presentation on what it takes to produce an excellent book and marketing strategies. He will discuss why authors are turning to self publishing giving his expertise on book publishing, printing, editing, design, formatting, ebooks, and the book market.
Writers and authors will leave this presentation with a wealth of information.
Unleash Your Passion, Purpose, and Highest Potential
In this day-long retreat we suspend judgement, toss out all the self-sabotaging behaviours and limiting beliefs, and create a blueprint for your deepest heart’s desire to come to fruition. It’s a one-day knock-your-socks-off playshop where you will author your highest vision into a true living reality!
When: Saturday, September 8, 2018
Time: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm (registration 9:00 am; workshop begins 9:30 am)
Where: The Yurt at CorUnum, 5990 Old West Saanich Road, Victoria
Cost: $125
Please bring a bag lunch and snacks.
Seven Day Author Mentorship Retreat in Mexico
Dates: March 5 – 11, 2018
Location: Mismaloya, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
—with Julia Salisbury and Junie Swadron
IF YOU ARE BEING CALLED TO WRITE A BOOK, PLAY, BLOG, ONE-PERSON SHOW, ETC., THEN YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS this opportunity to begin or renew your commitment to your written works with Junie Swadron, author, psychotherapist and writing coach and Julie Salisbury, founder and CEO of Influence Publishing. They have come together to offer the most comprehensive, passionate, and joyous experience for people who are serious about writing their books and bring them to publication.
Their over 40 years of combined expertise in coaching and publishing authors offers participants the most vital components for getting their voice off the page and into the world.
During the seven-day retreat, you will receive both group and private 1-1 coaching as well as lots of writing and review time, to get your book ready for publication.
Author support groups and 1-to-1 coaching available too! www.junieswadron.com/author-support
Write Yourself Home
A Fun & Profound One-Day Writing Retreat
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018
Location: Comox/Courtenay (location to be announced)
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Early bird price: $95 if paid by end of day April 4.
“The only way to make this awesome workshop any better would be to make it into a two-day pajama party. I just want to keep going and going and going!” Rachel Baum
Do you think you can’t write? Well, you can!
Do you think your negative beliefs and attitudes toward writing and other things can’t change in a few hours? Yes, they can!
Do you think life-affirming transformation can’t happen in a day? Yes, it can!
In this life-changing workshop, I’ll show you how to come home to your heart through the joy of writing.
This transformative and deepening sense of self – a day of discovery – will engage you and surprise you by eliciting prose, poetry, song lyrics or simply stream of conscious writing that in a word or two simply delights you! You will learn the fundamentals of moving past the head and into the heart of writing.
In recognizing that writing is a sacred art, you learn about self-acceptance and honouring and letting go of self-judgments about how you write. It is a place of honouring yourself, the child that lives within you, and the journey where the words upon the page bring you to a destination that you could not have dreamed of before putting pen to paper.
Register here: www.junieswadron.com/write-yourself-home