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Together we...
- cultivate devotion to our creative processes as a counter to authoritative and scarcity-based mindsets that block creative pleasure and, therefore, creative potential.
- create space for community accountability and, therefore, play, pleasure, and risk.
- reorient away from approval-seeking patterns and toward our inherent self-worth and creative sovereignty.
- build confidence for translating our work together into new contexts.
In networks of care and action, creative work is made viable.
The stutter becomes utterance.
The signal gets stronger.
TESTIMONIALS
From Lary (Gleaning, Lighthouse Writers Workshop)
When our eight week course came to a close, I was saddened! Cass’ warm and welcoming approach to facilitating a group of writers at different junctures in their writing made for a community that I looked forward to participating in on a weekly basis. Cass weaves a variety of lesser known but all-the-more-relevant writers/thinkers into the prompts and reflections on the how and why of writing towards a new understanding of ourselves and the world.
From Geraldine (Beginning Again, Vocational Poetics)
Attending the Beginning Again workshop with Cass helped me to better understand the mystery of creativity–including my own creative impulses. I really appreciated Cass’s insights on my work, and am grateful to have had such an inviting space for generative and inspiring group discussions.
From Riley Ratcliff (Gleaning, Vocational Poetics)
I came across one of the first offerings from Vocational Poetics — a workshop on gleaning as a poetic practice — at time of fairly radical change in my life. Uprooting myself from community to move and start grad school, I struggled to find a place for poetry in these new life-confines. Weekly discussions with Cass and the other participants (Cass really succeeds in facilitating warm and open convo) were vital in helping me realize that my practice can flow between wide diversities of vessels, that everything takes part in this flow as a matter of course, care, and attention, and the influence of these few Sundays continues. How writing becomes indistinguishable, if only as the contour, from the essence of one’s life — what better lesson is there?