Place, Color and Word
Creating Your Atlas of Experience
Dates: September 26 - October 2, 2010
Instructor/Leaders: Patti Digh and David Robinson
Cost - $3025
"An atlas never just shows you where you are, where you want to go and how to get there. It also fires the imagination. Maps which chart rivers, mountains, towns, countries, far-away regions, oceans, and continents can arouse intense feelings. An atlas combines reality and fantasy.” Louise van Swaaij and Jean Klare, The Atlas of Experience
Trip Description
During this weeklong workshop, participants will explore their own personal geographies - how you participate in creating the landscape of your life, how you share that landscape with others, and where you want to map your future. You will leave the workshop with an atlas of your experience.
Using the serene backdrop and sensory stimulation of Orvieto, this unique retreat will explore these questions through the visual arts and writing:
• How do I locate myself in the world? How does that serve me and
how does that limit me?
• What are the patterns of my life and how do they determine what I
see and where I can go?
• It is said that “wisdom sits in places.” What is the wisdom of the
place in which I sit?
Is this a workshop only for artists and writers?
Not at all. We’ll do reflective exercises that involve writing and some arts processes, but we welcome people who like to read, or bake, or sleep late, or crochet small giraffes, engineers, kayakers, you name it. The only prerequisite for attending is that you are human. Period. Okay, well, perhaps human with a sense of humor. That’s it. All are welcomed.
Itinerary
Sept 26 - Arrive Orvieto, group dinner
Sept 27 - Experience of place: how did you get here?
Locating yourself in the geography of Italy through visual and
writing processes.
. Italian culture and oil tasting, Orvieto walking tour.
Sept 28 - Moving backwards: Mapping the past
Finding Edges: Are they boundaries or horizons?
Cooking class - learn to make pasta and other dishes, and
enjoy the fruits of your labors!
Sept 29 - Metaphor and monsters / Yearnings and obstacles
Map legends: How do you interpret what you see?
Picnic lunch
Learn about the Eturscans through an Etruscan cave tour.
Optional wine tasting.
Sept 30 - Market Day: Exploration and inspiration.
Firing the imagination: Mapping forward
Liminal spaces: Diving into the spaces in between
Picnic lunch with food from the market.
Vineyard tour - visit a local vineyard to learn the vintner’s
passion for wine. Sample several wines, including Orvieto
Classico.
Oct 1 - Shared understandings: Taking others on a tour of your Atlas
of Experience
Oct 2 - Depart Orvieto
Details
Cost - $3025. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging and basic course materials. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because Italian cuisine is such fun, meals are not prearranged or included - we do give lots of advice! Travel costs are not included.
Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by e-mail,
phone or writing at the contact information below.
Creating Your Atlas of Experience
Dates: September 26 - October 2, 2010
Instructor/Leaders: Patti Digh and David Robinson
Cost - $3025
"An atlas never just shows you where you are, where you want to go and how to get there. It also fires the imagination. Maps which chart rivers, mountains, towns, countries, far-away regions, oceans, and continents can arouse intense feelings. An atlas combines reality and fantasy.” Louise van Swaaij and Jean Klare, The Atlas of Experience
Trip Description
During this weeklong workshop, participants will explore their own personal geographies - how you participate in creating the landscape of your life, how you share that landscape with others, and where you want to map your future. You will leave the workshop with an atlas of your experience.
Using the serene backdrop and sensory stimulation of Orvieto, this unique retreat will explore these questions through the visual arts and writing:
• How do I locate myself in the world? How does that serve me and
how does that limit me?
• What are the patterns of my life and how do they determine what I
see and where I can go?
• It is said that “wisdom sits in places.” What is the wisdom of the
place in which I sit?
Is this a workshop only for artists and writers?
Not at all. We’ll do reflective exercises that involve writing and some arts processes, but we welcome people who like to read, or bake, or sleep late, or crochet small giraffes, engineers, kayakers, you name it. The only prerequisite for attending is that you are human. Period. Okay, well, perhaps human with a sense of humor. That’s it. All are welcomed.
Itinerary
Sept 26 - Arrive Orvieto, group dinner
Sept 27 - Experience of place: how did you get here?
Locating yourself in the geography of Italy through visual and
writing processes.
. Italian culture and oil tasting, Orvieto walking tour.
Sept 28 - Moving backwards: Mapping the past
Finding Edges: Are they boundaries or horizons?
Cooking class - learn to make pasta and other dishes, and
enjoy the fruits of your labors!
Sept 29 - Metaphor and monsters / Yearnings and obstacles
Map legends: How do you interpret what you see?
Picnic lunch
Learn about the Eturscans through an Etruscan cave tour.
Optional wine tasting.
Sept 30 - Market Day: Exploration and inspiration.
Firing the imagination: Mapping forward
Liminal spaces: Diving into the spaces in between
Picnic lunch with food from the market.
Vineyard tour - visit a local vineyard to learn the vintner’s
passion for wine. Sample several wines, including Orvieto
Classico.
Oct 1 - Shared understandings: Taking others on a tour of your Atlas
of Experience
Oct 2 - Depart Orvieto
Details
Cost - $3025. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging and basic course materials. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because Italian cuisine is such fun, meals are not prearranged or included - we do give lots of advice! Travel costs are not included.
Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by e-mail,
phone or writing at the contact information below.
Adventures in Italy, 221 Forest Hill St., NC 28655, 828.221.2322, info@AdventuresInItaly.net
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Meet Patti
Patti’s first book, Global
Literacies: Lessons on
Business Leadership and
National Cultures was named a “Best Business Book” by Fortune magazine. Her second book was The Global Diversity Desk Reference. Her third book, LIFE IS A VERB, is based on her award-winning blog, 37days, and was one of five finalists for the prestigious “Books for a Better Life” award in 2009. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina. More on Patti here.
Meet David
As a life long visual and
theatre artist, David has
mastered the competen-
cies recognized by organi-
zations as invaluable to
their sustainability: creative,
imaginative, symphonic,
and mythic. Twenty years
of professional directing experience help him design programs that facilitate the recovery of the creative impulse and transformational experiences. David has been Artistic Director of The Dimensions Theatre Project, General Manager of The Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Artist-in-Residence for the Lincoln Unified School District, among other engagements. He lives in Seattle, WA. More on David here.
Patti and David co-founded The Circle Project, exploring communities and organizations as storytelling systems, engaging people around diversity issues, and methods for personal learning and organizational change.
Patti & David in other's words
Patti and David are a dynamite team with so much wisdom & power between them. Their training is like taking a personal & collective journey to a place where innate knowledge is illuminated into new ways of seeing ourselves and others. Teresa, Portland, Oregon
My experience with the retreat was absolutely magical! Patti’s wry humor, intelligence and expertise, combined with David’s brilliant ability to facilitate learning through stories and theatrical games, created an environment in which I felt completely at ease. I was inspired and motivated to explore deeply within my own heart and mind.
Janna, Asheville, North Carolina
It was like following the yellow brick road. There was a sense of expectation that made me wonder what would come next….When the journey was over, I wished that it had not ended. And it was the journey itself that made me grow, exposing so many layers I had to think about again and again. The most beautiful part of the whole experience was how our two guides made sure everybody was involved and included, graciously and effortlessly.
Alex, Seoul, Korea
Patti’s first book, Global
Literacies: Lessons on
Business Leadership and
National Cultures was named a “Best Business Book” by Fortune magazine. Her second book was The Global Diversity Desk Reference. Her third book, LIFE IS A VERB, is based on her award-winning blog, 37days, and was one of five finalists for the prestigious “Books for a Better Life” award in 2009. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina. More on Patti here.
Meet David
As a life long visual and
theatre artist, David has
mastered the competen-
cies recognized by organi-
zations as invaluable to
their sustainability: creative,
imaginative, symphonic,
and mythic. Twenty years
of professional directing experience help him design programs that facilitate the recovery of the creative impulse and transformational experiences. David has been Artistic Director of The Dimensions Theatre Project, General Manager of The Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Artist-in-Residence for the Lincoln Unified School District, among other engagements. He lives in Seattle, WA. More on David here.
Patti and David co-founded The Circle Project, exploring communities and organizations as storytelling systems, engaging people around diversity issues, and methods for personal learning and organizational change.
Patti & David in other's words
Patti and David are a dynamite team with so much wisdom & power between them. Their training is like taking a personal & collective journey to a place where innate knowledge is illuminated into new ways of seeing ourselves and others. Teresa, Portland, Oregon
My experience with the retreat was absolutely magical! Patti’s wry humor, intelligence and expertise, combined with David’s brilliant ability to facilitate learning through stories and theatrical games, created an environment in which I felt completely at ease. I was inspired and motivated to explore deeply within my own heart and mind.
Janna, Asheville, North Carolina
It was like following the yellow brick road. There was a sense of expectation that made me wonder what would come next….When the journey was over, I wished that it had not ended. And it was the journey itself that made me grow, exposing so many layers I had to think about again and again. The most beautiful part of the whole experience was how our two guides made sure everybody was involved and included, graciously and effortlessly.
Alex, Seoul, Korea
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