Writing Retreat

The inaugural Health & Wellness writing retreat was held Saturday December 7. Ten clients participated in the retreat. Poems about faces and masks were read and clients wrote poems and prose about the same. Clients began the afternoon with a warm up exercise, writing in a free-association style. Then clients were provided prompts including tangible masks to touch and use as inspiration for two free writing exercises. Most clients shared their writing with the group by reading their poems and prose aloud. Below please find one participant's writing:

 

"Many faces have I. Sometimes I feel happy and wear a smiling face with a gaping grin and teeth aglow. Other times I feel sad and wear a frowning face with terse lips and sagging ends. Perhaps my most well-worn face, however, is the puzzler with a concentrated gaze and a near smerk."