WONDER•ING 2023: CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER
Take this weekend to reconnect with your sense of curiosity and awe. Together we will revitalize our creative selves through meditative practices, exploratory writing, imaginative exploration of the natural world, playful making, and more. No prior experience with meditation or writing required!
Day 1 (afternoon/evening): Setting sacred space for exploration and play
Day 2 (full day): Calling in our curious selves
Day 3 (full day): Dwelling deeply in the wonder-full now
Day 4 (morning): Imagining gloriously forward
You can expect:
* guided meditations
* facilitated exploratory writing
* tactile imaginative practices
* connection with the natural surroundings
* space for rest and connection with self and others
Co-led by Lindsey Dorr-Niro (transdisciplinary visual artist, arts educator, and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist scholar/teacher) and Marty McConnell (writer, arts educator, and creativity coach).
Lindsey Dorr-Niro is a transdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She received her MFA from The Yale School of Art and BFA from The University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has studied and practiced within the Gelugpa school of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism since 2009 and taught meditation since completing her 300-hour yoga teacher training with the Yoga Studies Institute in 2011. Her meditation studies include work with the Diamond Mountain, Tara Mandala, and DharmaOcean lineages. Her focus is on somatically embodied practice, with trainings cultivated through Awakening the Body, Awakening the Heart, and The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness. She is currently studying meditation with Ralph De La Rosa, whose work bridges Tibetan Buddhist meditation/mindfulness practice with Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, and somatic experiencing to address and heal trauma.
Marty McConnell provides vital coaching and consulting services to people and organizations, supporting them in being planful, proactive, and powerful in building the lives and worlds they envision. She is the author of when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there, winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize; her first full-length collection, wine for a shotgun, received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda Literary Award. She is the author Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop (Yes Yes Books, 2018), and the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision. An MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review.
Learn more about Lindsey here and here, and more about Marty here and here.