The Second Body Soul Writing Teacher Training Program will begin in September 2025 and continue through May 2026. Designed for women who want
to develop their own workshops, this unique training program combines expressive writing and Jungian themes with music and movement explorations, voice, dreamwork, collage, and other modes of creative expression. We will cover every aspect of facilitating soulful workshops that nurture women’s creativity. Topics will include creating content, deciding on form and structure, determining registration fees, ensuring trust and safety in the group, teaching in person and
online, and much more.

If you would like to offer workshops for women that include a substantial writing component, expand your current work with clients to include more expressive
writing, or step into your role as a teacher in a more grounded and confident way, please contact me to discuss whether this program might be a good fit.

We will begin with a weeklong in-person retreat on Bowen Island, a short ferry trip from Vancouver, British Columbia. Subsequent sessions will be conducted via
Zoom on Sunday and some Wednesday mornings. This includes regular email contact between sessions along with one-to-one consultations.

The Art of Creating Workshops for Women: A Guide to Facilitating Soulful Spaces, Events, and Retreats my recently completed book manuscript, will be our “textbook.” At this time the manuscript is available only to registered program participants.

At the end of the program participants will be ready to offer their own workshops for women. A Certificate of Completion will be issued.

Join this online Zoom community (at any time during the series) where your voices can be understood and heard. These groups are designed to assist each member to explore the unconscious and the shadow in the tradition of Carl Jung using a method of active imagination called Voice Dialogue. You may join this group at any point during the series.

Individual Dream Sessions:

Dream sessions incorporate movement, art, Active Imagination, and writing practices to dive into dream images. Marion Woodman’s teaching in Body Soul Leadership training is the embodied foundation of dreamwork.

Create a custom Wild Soul Dream Diving Group Session:

Would you like to experience dream work in a small group format with friends or colleagues? Exploring dreams in a small group is very potent. Each participant will have one-to-one opportunity to work with a dream. As a group, participants will experience Marion’s Body Soul Practices for embodied dreamwork.  These practices include, Art, Movement, Writing Prompts, and Active Imagination / Dialogue.

Please contact Andrea at andreaw@cruzio.com to create your own Body Soul Experiential Dream Group.

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Image: "Desert Dancers"

courtesy of Nancy Patterson​

“I am ready to write another life: out here, on the edge, in the wild.” Nancy Mairs

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“Where does Wild Woman live? She lives in the place where language is made. She lives on poetry and percussion and singing. Wild Woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry." Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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If you would like to develop a regular writing practice and explore the stories at the heart of your life, please join us for this twelve week writing program. In a circle of creative and openhearted women we will consider a wide variety of writing styles and genres: memoir and poetry, dreams and writing from the body, music and active imagination, fairy tale and proprioceptive writing. Weekly sessions will include teaching and discussion of the writing process, writing together, and breakout groups for sharing your writing. Writers at all levels are warmly welcome. In the second half of this series, anyone who wishes can receive written comments and feedback on a piece of writing. 

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In preparation for this workshop, please read one of Marlene’s books: A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey, or

Gypsy Fugue: An Archetypal Memoir.

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For more information or to register,

email Marlene at mschiwy03@gmail.com or call 604.734.3554

www.marleneschiwy.com

Despite its outer frozen appearance, Winter is a season of quiet preparation, magic brewing deep down in the dark, its unseen work of profound growth preparing for a new cycle and yielding to Spring's Rebirth.

Come join us on this sacred journey for what is wanting to Emerge on the other side of the Deep Winter's Brew.

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Come and join us for a soulful and joyful weekend gathering of story, myth, movement and dreamwork; an exploration of the deep feminine. Our weave is informed by BodySoul Rhythms and the myth and story work of Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and we are held by the labyrinth and the glorious land and trees of Kent. 

Our story for 2026 is the story of Courting The Wild Twin by Dr Martin Shaw. A story of loss and absence, of something precious and wild having being lost and seeking to return.