DEAR FRIENDS! 

EXCITING NEWS!  I am offering Summer Drop-In Writing Circles 

My new repertoire includes an array of creative modalities such as music, movement, collage, field trips and theatre games which will bring you deeper into your writing experience.  

You will bring your insights and new awareness from these creative experiences into your writing.  The writing – in any form - prose, poetry, memoir, etc. can be enjoyed independently or applied to works already in progress. 

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Summer Soul-stice Weekend Writing Retreat
June 21st – 25th 2012
Thursday, June 21st 7 p.m.
Junie reading from my book  RE-WRITE YOUR LIFE A Transformational Guide to Writing and Healing the Stories of Our Lives
Location: Pioneer Room at Manson’s Hall
Cost: FREE
Workshop Location: Diane and Andrew’s Place 1051 Seaford Road in Manson’s
Workshop
Re-Write Your Life
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Friday June 22nd – 6:30 – 9:30
Saturday, June 23rd – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Saturday, June 30th , 2012
Church of Truth 111 Superior St. James Bay Victoria
FUN – D – RAISER

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
- Helen Keller-

Academy for creative and healing arts for people with metnal challenges
Creativity is the opening for the human heart to meld pain and anguish then convert it into brilliant works of art. When we lose our impulse to create, something …

A Fun & Profound One-Day Writing Retreat
Do you think you can’t write? Well, you can!
Do you think your negative beliefs and attitudes toward writing
can’t change in a few hours? Yes, they can!
Do you think life affirming transformation can’t happen in a day?
Yes, it can!
Come, let me show you how to come home to your heart through the joy
of writing.
Writing has the power to stop time, cut through the …

Welcome to the dawning of 2012 – the end of the Mayan calendar, a time of new global beginnings. Some talk about it as a time of ascended consciousness – a time where humanity is being called to wake up to how precious our planet and each of its inhabitants are to take responsible action to restore balance, harmony and equality.
Some fear we will see more wars, planetary catastrophes and the ending of political and social structures as we …

Victoria Premiere Screening of Madness, Masks and Miracles
followed by a discussion
Sunday, December 11, 2011 6:45 p.m.
Truth Centre, 1201 Fort Street, Victoria, BC
Join June Swadron, Victoria writer, actor, playwright, psychotherapist and author of Re-Write Your Life, in an evening of exploring the link between creative expression and wellness for people living with a mental illness.

Do you remember where you were?
In my last newsletter, the tip I offered was to buy yourself a special journal.
Today, being the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I’m going to share some personal entries that I wrote in my journal on September 11th, 2001.
I had set that day aside to write an article for Vancouver’s Common Ground magazine. The theme for October was WRITING and the deadline was approaching fast.
I believe what you will read below will …

Once again it’s almost fall and time for brand new beginnings.
I remember when I was a young teen in Toronto, the summer holidays seemed long and the hot, humid days felt almost interminable. My friends and I hung out in the park under the shade of the chestnut trees listening to our transistor radios. Later we’d check out the latest LPs or 45s—am I’m dating myself or what!—at Tommy Common’s Record Store and then we were off to Puppy …

Have you ever considered writing your life stories but then have stopped yourself because there are things you’d just rather not remember let alone write about?
What if there was a way of returning to those same stories that when you thought of them, you felt empowered rather than disturbed? A way that would transform how you felt about yourself as well as certain people and events from your past?
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