02/01/2026
This is what I’m doing this weekend. Many people have observed we seem to be cutting through the need for psychotherapy in this atmosphere of honesty and trust. I have never been to Portland, but I feel I have a writing “home” there in CW. I’m into my third year of creative labs and radical meditation too.
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Mulch, Morph, Magic: Compost as Renewal and Shapeshifting
An online generative retreat with Lidia Yuknavitch & Janice Lee
Friday January 30 through Sunday February 1
Online via Zoom
What would happen if we could invite or welcome decay, rot, and death into our creative practice, excavating past our sacred discomfort and leaning into the process of decomposition as a deep and profound transformation? What can we conjure in our writing if we think of compost and decay as renewal, change, shapeshifting, and ritual?
During this generative workshop, supplemented by guided meditations, sharing, and collaboration, we will explore compost as engagement with the dead and deadened things around us, with the cycles of life and death, and with earth, soil, land. Compost is an understanding of the interwoven relationship of life and death as interlinked, inseparable forces. In our lives, as in our writing, we can look at deadened, decaying things as fertile material transformed and transmuted into new growths and stories. This weekend will be an invitation to pay attention to and recognize what is ready to—perhaps needs to—die, decay, rot. We will welcome whatever is decaying and rotting in your work so that it can be decomposed, transformed into renewal and regeneration, into new forms, into new life.
https://www.corporealwriting.com/current-offerings-sign-up/p/mulch
