Hosted by Wide Open Writing, our retreats focus on Living Your Creative Life. With daily morning yoga, two writing workshops per day, one-on-one sessions, and a fabulous evening salon, we offer a space that breeds creativity and transformation. We also recommend and leave time for walks, shoreline wanderings, naps, sunrises, sunsets, laughter, and nourishment of body and soul. We encourage a widening of the gap between these moments and the ones we’ve temporarily disengaged from (grocery shopping, phone calls, dental appointments, laundry), and that you sink into the experience of reconnecting with your senses and your writing.
We will be writing and nurturing our creative selves for seven days and six nights. You don’t need to bring a novel plot or an exact idea of what you want to be working on. We will be working with prompts designed to help you find your story. And if you do have a project in mind you want to be working on, our daily writing and feedback sessions will allow you to enrich the components of your writing. In either case, you’ll be moving toward the power and the passion in your writing. Our model for feedback is designed to empower what is strong and authentic in your writing in order to move your work forward meaningfully. Ultimately, that is why we write, why we create.
The late autumn climate of Kardamyli is typically mild and pleasant, though a storm or rain is always welcome to set the mood. The days can be warm and the evenings cool. It is the time of olive harvest, so the air smells of earth and toil and the salt of the sea. Our schedule allows for plenty of time for playing, hiking, exploring, finding some shade to hide out with a book, and, of course, writing.