When: Friday, January 31st, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Saturday, February 1st, 9:30am-3:30pm (Lunch break at noon)
Sunday, February 2nd, 9:30am-3:30pm (Lunch break at noon)
Where: Iowa Writers' House, 332 East Davenport St
Cost: $265
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
If you’re committed to living your highest potential, finding the voice of your deepest Self and standing behind it is essential. If, like most women, you have experienced being silenced and marginalized, you may have concluded that your voice and your wisdom are crazy, not important, illogical, or unnecessary. So you hedge, stay small and muted. Let’s change that!
Discover how to emerge from the trance of silence and find the voice of your authentic self in a program that teaches you to:
Uncover the message that your soul is here to express in 2020!
Release limiting stories of self-doubt and shame
Step through fears of being visible by creating inner safety
Get connected to your inner wisdom and writing voice
Believe in yourself and take inspired action on your creative ideas
Anchor into your own inner authority to be congruent with your YES and your NO
Our daily practices:
Writing
Your Essence must be expressed in order to be realized. The word gives form to the unformed. The greater the consciousness behind the word, the more power it has. You will discover your voice anew each time we write.
Healing
The root of the word ‘heal’ is the same as the root of the word ‘whole’. You will be safe in this retreat to heal any false beliefs that block your voice. There will be an opportunity for one to one facilitation with Nancy.
Stillness
Each day we will enter into Stillness several times. You will connect to a Presence and power that is all loving and all knowing. You will realize the consciousness of the Universe individualized as YOU.
Women’s Circle
Through discussions and sharing deeply we will create a connection among us that resides in your heart and supports you long after the retreat ends.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Nancy Swisher, MA, MFA is a transformational coach, spiritual mentor, author and artist. She has been supporting women to heal, transform, and evolve in consciousness for over 24 years. Known for creating a safe space where each person feels seen and heard, Nancy has an ability to communicate big concepts about healing and consciousness in down-to-earth language.
She leads the Find Your Voice and Stand Behind It Retreat annually in Oxford, England and at Kripalu Center in western MA. In addition to the retreat settings, she offers an online Find Your Voice Mentorship Program for women who want to go deeper and have support tailored to their needs.
Nancy is the author of The Life That Woke Me Up Was My Own: A Memoir, which is available on Amazon and Audible. Portions of this book received honorable mention at the Artists at Work Fellowship Competition and were a finalist for the Callum MacLeod Memorial Publishing Prize. Nancy holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was awarded the New York Individual Artists Grant for poetry.
To learn more about her work, go to nancyswisher.com.
INSTRUCTOR INSPIRATION STATEMENT
I understood the voice of my Essence when I was a young girl. When I was five years old, the milkman at my father’s store stopped to ask me a question as he stacked the cartons of milk. I was playing on the sidewalk that morning, listening to the sounds of the creek across the road. He looked down at me and said, “What do you what to be when you grow up?” Without hesitation, I replied, “I already am who I want to be.” I spoke my Voice that morning—the voice of my Essence, what I would later call my Soul words. The clear knowing I had then that who I am is Consciousness, that who I am is a Being, got lost like it does for all of us: through conditioning, experiences, traumas and the choices made to ‘make it’ in the world.
I never forgot the feeling, however. I oriented my entire life around understanding the breadth and depth of the Voice that got lost and why and how to retrieve it again.
I am inspired daily by the women I work with who come from all over the world! I believe that we transform and heal the planet one voice at a time!
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