Are you creative? What is creativity, anyway? Certainly it’s
more than making art. Perhaps its something fundamental to the
universe, for we are all expressions of an evolutionary creative
force. Through life, the universe comes to know itself. Therefore,
through our creations we explore who we are and expand our consciousness.
Every photograph, painting, poem, song, or garden tells our
story and examining our creations helps us to understand why
we choose particular subject matter and why we decide how to
approach it as we do. Like our dreams, these choices are symbols
of our personal journey.
Investigate your inner landscape through creating art, working
with dreams, participating in group and private discussions.
Delve into the mystery of who and what you are through meditation,
conversation and exploration.
INSCAPE is not an instructional workshop in visual design or
any specific artistic medium, although your presenters may use
particular artistic media for illustration. There will be daily
presentations by David, Freeman, or special guests, both group
and one-on-one conversations, films, meditation, and free time.
Although most daily schedules are very full, you will follow
your own program. Everything is optional.
We encourage, but do not expect, each participant to create
an art work – a poem, a story or essay, a song, a dance,
a painting, a series of photographs, etc. – for presentation
to the group on the last day of the workshop.
DAVID MAGINLEY, M.Div. is a chaplain with
the cancer and palliative care program at the Queen Elizabeth
II hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia and author of BEYOND
SURVIVING: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey. He is also
a four-time cancer survivor. This led him to explore meditation,
illness and transformation, and the nature of consciousness.
David has lectured throughout Canada, conducting workshops with
health-care staff and the public on spirituality, cancer, grief,
and aspects of emergent and integrative spirituality. He is
a Lutheran minister and member of the International Association
for Near Death Studies, contributing to research on patient
experiences at end-of-life. David holds a B.A. in philosophy
and an M.Div. from the University of Saskatchewan. He is also
passionate about photography and brings a wealth of life experience
to his unique perspective.
FREEMAN PATTERSON, C.M., O.N.B., M.Div. of
Shamper’s Bluff, New Brunswick, has made photographs for
more than 60 years, taught visual design for more than 55 in
Canada and many other countries, and authored 15 books. Freeman’s
primary source of awe and wonder is Creation; he is equally
at home in a Canadian forest or in the vast sand dunes of Namibia
and equally at ease investigating the meanings of the symbols
in his dreams or in his art. Freeman believes that the ability
of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the
health and well-being of the few kilometres of air, water, and
soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple, that
they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, the
source of materials and tools that enable us to express our
responses to questions and feelings about ultimate things. Creation
and creativity are inextricably linked.
MARGARET WOODSON NEA of Virginia is a photographer,
teacher, and speaker whose photography has taken her to over
20 developing nations around the world. Her images of women,
children, and the natural world have been exhibited nationally
and internationally. Moved particularly by the eyes of children,
she has authored two photographic books, CHILDREN: Gifts
of the Spirit and CHILDREN: Eyes of the Soul. The
focus of her Master’s Degree was “Art and the Spiritual.”
A graduate of the Haden Institute of Spiritual Direction, she
believes in Carl Jung’s philosophy that “dreams
and photographs are messengers of the unconscious.” With
her clients, she works with dream and photographic images as
portals to the sacred. For the past 25 years, she has been a
member of a dream group that meets weekly. Knowing dreams to
be a rich source of wisdom, they continue to attend dream conferences
with teachers including Jeremy Taylor, Alan Jones, Jerry Wright,
and Marion Woodman. Also, she has been on numerous pilgrimages.
In Peru and India, she discovered the richness of ancient holy
traditions. Through the thin places of Iona and Ireland, she
found that, in the beliefs of Celtic spirituality, there is
sacredness in all of creation.
This workshop will be hosted by the St.
Martins Country Inn in the village of St. Martins on the
Bay of Fundy coast, east of Saint John and the Saint John airport
and right at the beginning of the Fundy Trail.
St. Martins is approximately 38 kilometres east of the Saint
John (not St. John), New Brunswick airport (YSJ). Participants
are responsible for their own transportation to and from the
workshop. You may wish to use a readily available taxi at the
airport for the 25 minute drive.
Fee for the six-day/seven-night course includes meals and
accommodation (Canadian funds). $2795 per person + HST
(15%). If your dietary restrictions require the purchase
of specialty items, an additional fee may be charged.
Participants
should endeavour to arrive in time for introductions at 5:30
p.m. on Sunday, followed by dinner, and depart the following
Sunday morning.
Guests: Partners or friends of participants
do not pay the workshop fee, and should not expect to attend
regular presentations. The fee for meals and accommodations
for the week for partners or friends will be $700. +
HST (15%).
TO REGISTER FOR A 2024 WORKSHOP
We will take registrations on a first come/first served basis.
Registrations are now open.
Step 1: Send your completed, signed application
form by e-mail indicating your first and second choice of workshop
weeks. We require a $400 deposit (Canadian funds) payable the
first week of January. Our preferred method is etransfer but
we do accept VISA or MasterCard if that is your preferred method.
Please indicate on your application form if you will be paying
by e-mail money transfer or credit card the first week of January.
Send your completed, signed application
form by e-mail or post to:
Shamper’s Cove Limited
3491 Route 845
Long Reach, NB, Canada E5S 1X4
e-mail freemanpatterson23@gmail.com
Phone 506-763-2189
Step 2: The balance of your workshop fees
must be paid six weeks before your workshop begins to ensure
your place is held.
Cancellations: On cancellations up to six weeks prior
to the beginning date of the workshop, we will refund your deposit
less 50% for expenses. We will not refund on cancellations received
six weeks or less prior to the beginning date of the workshop.
We strongly suggest the purchase of cancellation insurance.
Please do not register for a
workshop unless you are able to stay for the entire period as
an early departure seriously disrupts the spirit and fellowship
of the workshop.
