Gathering Imagery from the Internal Well: A Workshop with Holaday Mason

This intimate workshop is designed to help writers at all stages to tap into their internal emotional worlds & receive imagery from less conscious aspect of their minds, hearts & histories. Using time honored practices of mediation, selected readings from some of our most beloved imagistic poets, breathwork, sound & guided mediative journeying, participants will travel into their deep inner worlds & gather material which we will write out & then be invited to share in a safe environment. During the interim week, participants will be able to craft the raw writings they’ve “received” from the guided mediations & present a more finished poem in a safe positive workshop environment. We will aim to begin at least two poems or drafts. These practices are frequently powerful & can stir us. For this reason, we ask each person to commit to both sessions & to enter the work by setting personal & collective intentions to create a space for the courageous creativity of everyone.

This workshop will be conducted on two consecutive Saturdays, beginning on Saturday, August 17 & concluding on Saturday, August 24 , 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. pdt.

Given the nature of the work of this workshop, we unfortuanatley will not be able to honor refunds.

Holaday Mason is author of five full-length collections of poetry:Towards the Forest, Dissolve, The Red Bowl: A Fable in Poems, The “She” Series: A Venice Correspondence (with Sarah Maclay), and The Weaver’s Body and two chapbooks: Interlude & Light Spilling From its Own Cup. Her sixth collection, As If Scattered, will be published by Giant Claw Press in 2024. Nominated for several Pushcart awards, Mason has been published in Hotel Amerkia, Spillway, Solo, Pool, Poetry International, The Laurel Review, and more. She is also a portrait and fine art photographer focusing on the beauty of aging and humans as a part of nature. She served as co-editor for Beyond Baroque’s anthology Echo 681 and she has also lead writing workshops at Beyond Baroque. Currently she is poetry editor for online art an poetry magazine Furious Pure, and she was poetry editor for Mental Shoes. In private practice as a psychotherapist since 1993, she lives in Venice, California, with the flocks of wild green parrots, a meanass cat named Ms. T.T. ( AKA Ms. Twirly Tail, a big ole’ dog named Chewie, and her husband the musician and educator Adrian Baer (#jellybirdla). She can be found at #holadaymasonphotography or #holadaymason or www.holadaymason.com or www.holadaymasonphotography.com.

Masks are encouraged while inside our center.

Workshop attendees are expected to participate in a respectful, constructive, and considerate manner. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our workshops, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, fellow participants, or facilitator.

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