Workshops
NEW!
Creativity
Ballet Jazz
Art Workshop

Workshops
OVERVIEW

2008-2009:
Self-Exploration
Retreats
Helping Hands
Treks
Expeditions

NOW! A 3-hour Montreal creativity workshop - Creative writing exercises. Imagining. Fun explorations. Self-expression. Inventive. Creative. A pleasure. Click here.

NOW! A 2-hour Montreal creativity workshop - Introduction to Ballet Jazz. From gentle stretches to creating a simple ballet jazz piece. Fun. Creative. Click here.

NOW! A 3-hour Montreal art workshop - The Art Workshop. From creative art exercises to self-expression. Inventive. Creative. A pleasure. Click here.

For a site totally on creativity - words, stories, music, images, creative thinking, creative ideas, click here. There's even a creativity blog, on creativity in general and on the making of the site.

The site - elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com.

Soon there will be even more, space for many creative people to upload samples of their works and links to their own site.

elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com -
another very important kind of home space,
a home for creative works -
because just as we need shelter,
so does creativity in its many forms,
from writing stories, word pieces, idea pieces,
to songs, music, painting and much more.

What's on the site? Here's a sampling.

The Fluffers Book, a preteen story. Mystery, friendhsip and questions about reality - along with an invisible dog.

The Sexe-Tetes, women in seach of ...
whatever happens to attract their attention, such as ...
White Chocolate and Hot Fudge Sauce.

"Word pieces", from Can't Cross the Gap,
to Walking with John Lennon.

Elsas creativity blog
on the making of the site,
and on creativity in the life of the person
who's developing the site.

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AND THEN ...

Just being developed! Creativity Workshop, and much more. Retreats. Personal growth. Helping hands holidays. Expeditions - from trekking to climbing. For 2008.
Come look ...

And now ...

Hello from Elsa,

This part of our project - creativity workshops and other workshops, retreats, expeditions and helping hands holidays - is just being developed. But it will become an important part.

Some of my best holidays have been workshops (creativity, from writing to songwriting, plus a self-exploration one). My sister's best holidays have been helping hands holidays, for example, helping out in orphanages in Peru.

On the other side are the people who love giving a creativity workshop, a writer's or artist's workshop; who enjoy nothing more than organizing treks, etc. It has been the dream of a friend to give more than the occasional workshop (in her case, on imaging our future). Another friend started by climbing the big peaks in Peru, and continued on to organizing treks and climbs - and to helping out where he could (building homes and working with orphanages, etc.).

Workshops, from self-exploration to creativity workshops, not only give us a chance to develop our individual gifts and get to know ourselves better (and often to change in some positive way or other). We also connect with other people, often deeply. I have so many good memories of people from workshops I've attended.

Treks and climbs and expeditions are another way of getting to know, not only nature but ourselves and the others in the group.

Helping - it's one of the fundamental human needs. An emotionally healthy infant puts food into its mother's mouth - helping her.

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Here is a tentative line-up, with starting dates:

Weekend Retreats
La Retraite, Laurentians - available on request

(Location - La Grande Retraite, Morin Heights, the Laurentians). Weekend and weeklong intensives for 4-6 participants. Also, women-only workshops. Email for more info.

Workshops (Creativity & Self-Exploration)

One-Week Workshops
Provence - May 2008
Eastern Townships - summer 2008

Treks, Climbs and Expeditions
Peru, Amazon and Bali - July 2008

Helping Hands Holidays
Peru - 2008

As for helping hands holidays, we will start in Peru - because often it isn't easy to be able to help. (Traditional holidays are much easier to organize!) We may see the desperate poverty on the outskirts of Lima, where mudslides may kill hundreds in a heavy rainfall. But where can we do something (safely)? In Peru, we know a couple of organizations. (These holidays can be combined with an expedition, trek or climb).