Workshop - AWAKE MIND: Write / Draw / Contemplate
With Barbara Bash and Victress Hitchcock
May 3, 2025
A Day-long Virtual Retreat
Where do our stories come from? How do we bring them to life in words and images?
Spend a day with writer Victress Hitchcock and artist Barbara Bash exploring the world of memory, through contemplation, words, and images. Come play in the virtual space of non-conceptual creativity!
In this one-day retreat at Sky Lake Meditation Center we will use prompted and free writing exercises, blind contour drawing, mapping and brush gestures to deepen our connection with moments from our lives and find ways to tell our stories in embodied language and visual images.
The retreat is open to everyone. No experience in writing or drawing is necessary.
Cost is $125.
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Online Book Event & Conversation
Friday, May 2, 2025
7:30 PM ET
There will be an optional on-line event the evening before the AWAKE MIND retreat. Victress Hitchcock will read from her new memoir A Tree with My Name On It: Finding a Way Home, followed by a conversation between her and artist and writer Barbara Bash about where our stories come from. There will be a time for Q&A and signed copies of the book will be available to order. The evening is included in the cost of the day-long retreat or is available as a stand-alone event for a suggested donation of $25
“A Tree with My Name on It is a raw, courageous, and initiatory memoir for our times, a beautifully written account full of pain, liberation, compassion, and wisdom.” ––Fleet Maull, Author ––Radical Responsibility & founder of Prison Dharma Network.
“A riveting intimate tale of a woman’s journey in search of a home, in her body, in her spirit and in the land.” Tsultrim Allione, Author ––Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Feminine
About the Leaders
Barbara Bash
Barbara Bash is a calligraphic artist who has been exploring the mixing of Asian sensibility with Western art forms for many years. She creates group experiences of creative aliveness with brush, ink and simple ritual. She is a Shambhala meditation instructor and has collaborated with musicians, storytellers, and dancers in fresh forms of visual learning. […]
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Victress Hitchcock
Victress Hitchcock grew up in London, Paris and Madrid as the daughter of a diplomat. She graduated from the London Film School in 1972 and began a 45-year career making award winning documentary and educational films. Her memoir. A Tree with My Name on It: Finding a Way Home was published by Bold Story Press […]
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