Personal Travel Writing Workshops

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

- Henry Miller

Pre and Post - Travel Writing Workshops

Travelers who want to brush up on their writing flexibility may enjoy one or two pre-travel workshops to learn and practice new strategies to make the most of their experiences. Upon return, travelers may enjoy an extension of the bliss of travel with a workshop to generate reflective narratives and vignettes to accompany their digital photographs. Pre- and post-travel workshops can be arranged for groups or individuals by appointment. 

"Wide Angle Lens/Telephoto Lens"

Using a variety of photos, participants will experiment with the views through a wide-angle lens versus views through a telephoto lens. Writing will focus on experiencing and describing every scene from multiple perspectives and with a variety of lenses. 

"Silk Purse and Sow's Ear"

Participants will reflect on some of their most uncomfortable travel experiences and use a series of brief, guided writing experiences to transform these raw materials into a "silk purse" of new self-understandings about persistence, courage, limitations and crisis strategies.