DATE | November 16th, 2024
TIME |
- 12:00 pm, Networking
- 12:15 pm, Introductions & Incentives
- around 12:30-12:45 pm, Business meeting (we are not sure how long Intro & Incentives will take)
- 1:30 pm, Speaker
LOCATION | Meeting will be Hybrid via Zoom and Community Room at the Burkhardt Library, 4704 Burkhardt Ave., Dayton, OH 45403. This is in the Dayton Metro Library System. See below for further instructions.
TOPIC | Beth Morrow & Self-Care for the Creative Soul: How to Create a Mindfulness Practice to Support Your Writer Self. Presenting in person, so long as weather permits travel, otherwise, via Zoom.
Self-Care for the Creative Soul:
How to Create a Mindfulness Practice to Support Your Writer Self
If you’ve ever dreaded facing the page, struggled with critical self-talk, writer’s block, or procrastination, you know there’s more to the writing process than getting words on the page. Learning to tune into the rhythms, flow, and habits of our unique process through mindful practices can help us avoid burnout and navigate the emotional challenges of embodying our creative self.
Bring your journal and join me for this interactive workshop where we will cultivate an awareness and appreciation of what fuels our creative souls through:
- journaling,
- meditation, and
- mindful breathwork.
We’ll use exercises and prompts designed to discover and clarify what your creativity needs most for a sense of peace, connection, and ease. You’ll return to your writing refreshed and restored, with a list of strategies and resources to support you in bringing your most authentic self to the page.
Attending Our Hybrid Meeting
Presentation is free for members and prospective members who have not yet visited for two complimentary meetings.
We encourage you to be in person if you can! This speaker will be at the library, ready to help us develop a practice to keep us healthy and creative as we write.
For those members who cannot join us in person, join us via Zoom. The password will be posted in the Central Ohio Fiction Writers Google Group, and on the Central Ohio Fiction Writers Facebook page.
If you are not a COFW member and wish to attend this presentation via Zoom, email cofwpresident@gmail.com.
Dayton Public Libraries do allow food and drinks.
About Our Speaker
Beth Morrow, M.Ed., is a teacher and author who loves to explore the intersection of meditation and an embodied creative life. Her journey to mindfulness teaching began with learning yoga through videos then joining a studio for deeper study. Introduced to Zen meditation through a workshop, the profound spiritual and emotional healing she experienced lingered for over a decade and led her to earning a yoga teaching certification. Longing to return to meditation for healing after her husband’s death, the lack of meditation opportunities around her prompted her to leave the middle school classroom and become a meditation teacher herself.
She has since studied yoga nidra, Taiji, (Tai Chi), and reiki, and is completing work for her 500-hour meditation certification from the Radiance Sutras School of Meditation.
Beth currently teaches meditation and restorative and yin yoga in venues in Columbus, Ohio. Creating safe, comfortable spaces that invite students to slow down and relax into the innate wisdom of the self through the breath is what she loves most.
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