Workshops

World Fellowship offers participatory workshops throughout the summer. From Body Movement and Art Workshops, to various aspects of social change and engagement, educational opportunities abound. The cost of some workshops is included in your stay, and participation in some workshops requires an extra fee.

Members of your party who are not participating in a workshop are welcome to enjoy other activities.

Remaining workshops for this season:

Choral Singing Workshop with bev grant

Sunday-Friday August 28 – September 2
Bev Grant, director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus, is back by popular demand, with her conviction that everyone can sing. Drawing from a wide repertoire of socially conscious music, Bev will help the participants raise their voices and spirits. This safe, gentle workshop will be fun for experienced and novice singers alike.

In addition to directing the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus, Bev has been writing and performing songs since the late 1960s with compassion, insight, guts and beauty that acknowledge the power each of us holds to make change.

All choruses, singing levels and genders welcome! $75 fee

Watch this video from a previous year’s workshop

The choral singing workshop will be scheduled so that participants can also attend the concurrent writing workshop facilitated by Angela Lockhart.

Plus:
Saturday night, September 3, 7:30 pm
emma’s revolution!  ( http://emmasrevolution.com/)

And:
Saturday-Sunday September 3-4, Labor Day Music Weekend:
Sing-alongs each morning

Creative Writing Workshop 2011
Monday – Saturday, August 29^th – September 3^rd
Angela Lockhart- Workshop Leader

Writing is an art form that belongs to all people. A writer is some one who writes!

Angela Lockhartis a performing artist, teacher and published poet who inspires those silenced by illness, poverty and violence to write. She has successfully facilitated non-competitive writing experiences in clinical and educational settings as well as community centers and professional performance spaces. Angela also has a long-term relationship working collaboratively with Bev Grant to create participant based performances that include spoken word and song.  Angela Lockhart is a writing workshop leader for the New York Writers Coalition in New York City.

Workshop Premise: The premise of this all-inclusive World Fellowship creative writing workshop is the belief that the writing process and practice is an art form that belongs to all people regardless of class or educational background.  Angela’s supportive approach is one that inspires all levels of writers, including those who do not yet view themselves as writers.

Workshop Objective:

•     Provide a safe writing experience that supports each individual’s writing voice, process and practice  
•    Countless opportunities to generate and explore new writing styles and approach
•    Opportunities to formally share work started in the workshop that has moved beyond the first draft.

Participants are asked to bring their own writing notebooks or journals and pens and/or pencils. The fee for this week-long, daily writing workshop is $125 and is limited to 12 participants. To request an application form for this creative writing workshop please email LivingLessonsInc@gmail.com.  Specific details regarding the workshop approach and expectations will be forwarded to you after your workshop application and World Fellowship registration has been received.  Please note that a special rate of $75 will be offered to those who will also participate in Bev Grant’s Choral Week Workshop.

Feldenkrais Retreat: “Baby Moves for Grownups”
Sunday – Wednesday, September 4 – 7
with Josh Shreiber Shalem
Josh has been a student of the Feldenkrais Method since 1997, when chronic tendinitis forced him to stop playing the cello. He is a member of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America, having become Certified as a Feldenkrais Practitioner in 2001. His teaching is also informed by studies in the Alexander Technique, Tai Chi, Chi Gung, and Jewish spirituality. In addition to his practice in Arlington and Somerville, Josh has taught the Feldenkrais Method to students at Bennington College, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and the Longy Shcool of Music. Josh is now an active musician, completing a Masters degree in Early Music performance on viola da gamba at the Longy School of Music and is a founding member of the renaissance band Seven Times Salt and ensembles Musica Nuova and Long & Away. $125 fee.

More info at www.discover-yourself.com/WorldFellowship.htm

Compassionate Listening:
Changing Our World from the Inside Out
Friday -Sunday, September 9 – September 11
Yael Petretti brings lessons learned from peace-building in the Middle East to our families and communities. Both before and after earning a degree in International Relations at UC Berkeley, Yael traveled widely to meet people of other cultures and creeds. She organized citizen diplomacy groups to travel to other countries, giving Americans the chance to build real friendships with people they would otherwise have never understood. She served on the Israel-Palestine Working Group at the United Nations and facilitated a number of Compassionate Listening trainings in the United States. As a licensed tourist guide living in Jerusalem over three decades, she facilitated encounters between her tourists and the various religious and ethnic groups who inhabit the Middle East: Bedouins, Druze, Israelis, Christian and Moslem Palestinians. Appreciation of cultural diversity, friendship and mutual respect are her deepest values. Yael relocated in late 2010 to the New England area where she teaches Compassionate Listening to a wide variety of groups and organizations. Her work as a certified Compassionate Listening Facilitator provides the perfect tool for bringing people together: the practice of listening and speaking to one another from the purest places of the heart.  Arrival and welcome: Friday evening. $150 fee.  

Stir a Memory: Cooking and Art
with Krina Patel
Friday-Sunday September 9 – September 11
Krina Patel is a researcher and educator who promotes the connection between the farm, the kitchen, and the table. $100 fee  www.stiramemory.org