Early-bird conference registration for members for the full conference. Does not include room & board, meals or pre-/post-conference workshops. Order today! Conference rate increases after May 31st

Conference registration for members. Includes the full conference. Does not include room & board, meals or pre-/post- conference workshops. Order today! Rates increase on August 23rd.

Late conference registration for members. Includes the full conference. Does not include room & board, meals or pre-/post- conference workshops.

Can't come for the whole conference? Register for a single day! Does not include room or board.

Early-bird conference registration for non-members. Includes the full conference. Does not include room & board, meals or pre-/post- conference workshops. Order today! Conference rates increase on June 1st.

Conference registration for non-members. Includes the full conference. Does not include room & board, meals or pre-/post- conference workshops. Order today, rates increase on August 23rd!

Late conference registration for non-members. Includes the full conference. Does not include room & board, meals or pre-/post- conference workshops.

Can't come for the whole conference? Register for just a single day! Room and Board are not included.

Stay for three (3) nights in a private dorm room on Goddard's campus with shared bathrooms. Includes bed linen, pillow, and towels. This package also includes Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast, a total of eight (8) meals.

Stay for three (3) nights in a shared dorm room on Goddard's campus with shared bathrooms. Maximum of two people per room. Includes bed linen, pillow, and towels. This package also includes Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast, a total of eight (8) meals.

For the Wednesday night before the beginning of the Pre-Conference offerings, stay in a private dorm room on Goddard's campus with shared bathrooms. Maximum of two people per room. Includes bed linen, pillow, and towels. This package also includes Thursday breakfast and lunch.

For the Wednesday night before the beginning of the Pre-Conference offerings, stay in a shared dorm room on Goddard's campus with shared bathrooms. Maximum of two people per room. Includes bed linen, pillow, and towels. This package also includes Thursday breakfast and lunch.

One night in a single shared room at Goddard College. Does not include any meals.

One night in a single private room at Goddard College. Does not include any meals.

Eight meals: Thursday supper through breakfast on Sunday. Goddard is proud to source much of its food from local farmers!

Coming for just one day? Want to eat lunch on Thursday? Need a lunch for Sunday? Buy a single meal, or two, here.

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Time: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm.

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Time: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm.

Thursday September 23, 2010 1:30 - 4:00pm.
“Make your own bibles!” Emerson urged us, who had in mind that we, as individuals, should take charge of our own spiritual destinies. But what did he mean? For what purpose should we make our own personal sacred text? How should we go about it? What might it contain? We’ll talk about these topics, especially as regards the art of words as a matter of Craft and a matter of Quest. As writers, we study and learn craft. As humans, we would do well to consider quest just as seriously. One thing we might each want to take with us on our quest: “our own bible.” In this workshop, we’ll explore the theme of “bibles” and the theme of personal quests in the light of our roles as creative people.

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Thursday September 23rd 9:30am - Noon.
Stories can support us on every level, awakening our creative courage and vision.  Explore the dynamics of resilience, and how stories support the need of both children and adults to survive challenges and to thrive.  This is an opportunity to nourish your imagination and  creative confidence as you discover the resonances between human physiology and plot lines and story characters that express the immune system in action. This workshop offers vital new perspectives for health practitioners, parents, teachers,creative artists--and all who love stories. 

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Thursday September 23rd 9:30am - Noon.
Ready to try something creative and new?  Yvette A. Hyater-Adams, a pioneer in the Transformative Language Arts movement, is offering a literary arts-based approach to personal and professional development withTransformative Narrative Coaching.  Be guided to write short autobiographical and imaginative narratives integrated into a coaching model. The process increases self-awareness and helps individuals make mindful choices. With support of workshop participants, write and share written work as a way to have witnessed your powerful story for change. Experience a coaching process used successfully in executive development programs, for women in transition, and for anyone who wants to explore and expand career and life choices.

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Thursday September 23rd, 1pm - 6pm.
This is a special meeting and workshop for Coyote Institute and interested medical professionals and medical students.
We are encouraging Coyote Institute participants to stay for the Narrative Medicine Workshops through the conference featuring Dr. Robert Crocker, Dana Waldram, PhD, Dr. Mary Dowd, Barbara Mainguy, MFA and Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD. The Institute will conclude with a Sweat on Sunday (planned).
Workshop description: Narrative ideas are catching hold! Narrative ideas combine contemporary neuroscience with indigenous wisdom with feminist and ethnic studies and with our ordinary understanding of how human beings work. In this pre-conference workshop, we will explore how to "narrativize" your practice and work. How do you understand the concepts of story and how stories are embodied and how stories live through us, live us, and catch us up in living through them in the form of the roles that we play in those stories. How do we understand stories as the organizing principle for how our brains actually work. We will focus on the experiential -- on how to work with story in a variety of contexts including psychotherapy, medicine, nursing, counseling, education, and creative arts therapy. We will use some drama therapy techniques to explore how we embody the stories into which we are born. Participants will leave this workshop with an awareness of how to move forward and into this exciting paradigm shift in medicine and psychology.

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Sunday September 26th 9am - 3pm
Author of Saved by a Poem, Kim Rosen combines her experience as a poet, spoken word artist, therapist and spiritual teacher to create a magical environment in which poetry becomes a healing medicine for the body, mind, heart and soul. In an alchemy of spoken poems, guidance, music and writing, we will access the creative voice of each participant. Discover how every poem has a “medicine bag” of tools for changing consciousness and melting the veils between worlds. Learn poetry by heart with ease and joy (learning by heart is completely different from memorizing!). Free your real voice to authentically speak a poem (or any other communication of truth). Experience poetry as sacrament: mystics, shamans and poets have known since before the beginning of language that a spoken poem has the power to create a holy space where all are harmonized and healed. Prior knowledge of poetry or writing is not necessary (nor is the capacity to “memorize” anything!) 
Participants must buy one a la carte lunch for Sunday!

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Sunday September 27th 10:45am - 12:15pm
One of the first questions and sometimes most confusing faced by new or small nonprofit organizations is...how do we get money to do what we do. The answer is fundraising, and the good news is that there are many different ways to raise that money you need!  During this session, learn the different methods, the advantages and disadvantages of each - and strategies for you to use to get the best results! 

Sunday September 27th, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
As we prepare to leap back into our daily lives, take time to reflect on what has awoken inside you during this sacred weekend and consider how to bring your vision more fully alive in the coming months. Share stories of inspiration and transition, clarify where you are now and where you want to go and offer your own wisdom to those considering a leap in their lives. This session will include facilitated discussion, visualization and group exercises. Participants will be encouraged to make a commitment to themselves around pursuing their own right livelihood. To help steady us as we leap toward our vision, opportunities for support and connection beyond the conference will be offered.

Sunday September 27th, 9am-10:30am.
What work is calling to us, how do we make a living doing what we love, and how can we balance our life's work with our life? Come explore how to follow and converse with the signs and wonders that illuminate next steps to take in work, livelihood and life through starting a callings/livelihood journal of writing and art as well as other artistic and spiritual practices. This workshop welcomes people wanting to re-energize their current work as well as start new work.

Late Registration Fee

Late Registration Fee

Late Registration Fee

Earlier Registration Discount.
Participants should buy one a la carte lunch for Sunday!

Later Registration Fee.
Participants should buy one a la carte lunch for Sunday!