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Coming April 2008
Older Women's Legacy
Circle

Your story is as unique as any snowflake;
only you can record its intricate patterns.

~ A Gift for the Ages: Composing Your Ethical Will
~ Patchwork: most basic workshop
~ Homespun: focuses on childhood memories
~ Firsts: the first time for everything
~ Ordinary Days: a typical day in your life is extraordinary
~   Lean Times: how you made it through the wolf at the door
~   Hard Knocks: share what you learned the hard way!
~   Cross-Connections: cross-generational workshop

Making grandparent
books is a way for
grandparents to pass
on to their
grandchildren their
most cherished
possessions--their
memories of their own
childhood and youth.
Margaret Mead

New Workshops in 2007
~ Graced Insights:
A Women's Lifewriting Retreat
March 17, 2007
H ollins University

~ OWL Circle:
A Memoir Writing Workshop for Older Women
Tuesdays, April 3 - May 1, 2007
6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Botetourt County Historical Museum
Thursdays, Jul 19 - Aug 16, 2007
9:30 a.m. - Noon
Fincastle Community Center

Mother's Day Homespun Tea
Saturday, May 12, 2007
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Hollins University

Dad's School of Hard Knocks
Date and location TBA

~ A Gift for the Ages
October, 2007
Dates and Location TBA

Spiritual Memoirs Workshop

This day-long workshop is a cross-denominational,
non-judgmental forum for speaking our individual truths. It is
designed as an examination of our spirituality as it impacts our
lives, and how our life experiences shape our spirituality.
Much more personal than autobiographical writing, spiritual
memoirs are reflections on a life composition, our personal history
as it is manifested in our spirituality.
Click here for a fuller description of this workshop.

Older Women's Legacy Memoir Workshop

Ethical Wills Workshop

The story of your
life will be a gift to
your family that
only you can give.
Lois Daniel

This workshop is designed with a practical, interactive format to
educate and motivate participants. Depending on the number and
length of sessions, participants can expect the following: in an
introductory two-hour workshop, participants will begin the
process of composing their ethical wills; in a four-hour, half-day
session most participants will complete an outline for their will;
a full-day and/or multi-session workshop allows time for
reflection and discussion and usually produces a first draft of their
final document.
See what past participants have said.

Personal History Series Workshop

...ethical wills have the
power to make people
confront the ultimate
choices that they must
make in their lives.
They can make
people...stop and
consider what they are
living for.
Rabbi Jack Riemer

Loose Threads:
Spinning Your Life Story

Learn how to craft that memoir you've long talked about
writing. This 5-week series of lifewriting includes all
materials you need to get started.

Journals are where
in secrecy
we first find
the voice
that will carry us
through the world.
Alexandra Johnson
Leaving a Trace

A Journal Workshop

Ethel, the girl on the running board,
in the above photo, 1992

Using the metaphor of a community garden, we'll explore how to
step into the rich fields of your past journals. We'll begin with a
few ground rules, gather some tools to make the harvest fuller and
discuss how to delicately handle "bruised berries"--those hurtful
memories all of us avoid. Bring a few of your own journals to gain
practical, hands-on experience working these techniques.
Click here for a fuller description of this workshop.

Homespun Legacy can work with your church or group's
coordinator or your center's activity director at your location to
custom-design a specific workshop to meet your particular needs.
These workshops can cover a variety of themes and span an
introductory 2-hours, half-day, full day or weekly series.
Workshops start at $25 for the introductory 2-hour session (with 10
participants at your venue) and usually include start-up materials.
(Ask about discounts for your group!)

Call 540-473-3998 or e-mail me with your ideas or requests. It costs
nothing to discuss the scope of your project, or to outline a
workshop your group might want to sponsor.
See below for available workshops.

The OWL-Circle Memoir Workshop began as a two-year
grant-funded program designed to offer guided autobiography
workshops that would help senior women (women over sixty)
write their life stories. The women of Story Circle Network
believe that it is vital that older women be specially encouraged to
tell their stories before these valuable eyewitness tales are lost.
This is a five-week series and costs $75 to cover the expenses of
venue, workbooks, guided exercises and your personal memoir
booklet. Click here for a fuller description of the workshop.
Available for your church, group or organization at your site.
Call (540) 473-3998 or e-mail for details.

Participating in a workshop is the quickest and least expensive
way to get started recording your personal history.
A Homespun Legacy series workshop provides you with all the
materials you need to get started.
~ a Loose Threads Life Story Starter Kit
~ a personalized cover
~ a course outline
~ course goals
~ a loose threads notebook for gathering your prompts
~ a 'handful' of writing tips
~ handouts for completing your project
~ paper and pens

There is a book and photo display, group support (which is
proven to provide many more memory prompts), suggested
reading lists and bookmarks.

You will receive a Certificate of Completion at course end and a
complimentary gift from Homespun Legacy.

A Sunday Drive,
circa 1912

Workshop Options

The Reward
Sheridan, WY