In the Writing for the Love of It circles, Mary Ann has taught me much wisdom, given me courage and discipline to approach the blank page. – Julie Foster
Many thanks to you Mary Ann for your kind, quiet and caring guidance.
– Peter Bowen-Roberts
One-Day Writing Circle
Writing for
the Love of It
with Mary Ann Moore
“Writing for the Love of It” is an invitation to embody and create writing as your own spiritual practice. Together, we’ll create a sacred ceremony of writing, sharing and listening to yourself and others. On World Poetry Day, March 21st, you will be encouraged and enlightened by the gifts of poetry as solace, refuge and as a way to express grief, joy and all that is between. “Poetry gives us a way to inhabit our lives,” poet Marie Howe says. You will discover a variety of ways to share your own way of looking at things and embrace the fullness of the stories from your life. It has been said of Mary Ann Moore’s writing circles that they are places where unsuspecting poets are born.
at Bethlehem Centre, Nanaimo, BC
Friday, March 21, 2025
9 am to 4 pm
Bethlehem Centre is on Westwood Lake, 2371 Arbot Road, Nanaimo, B.C. For more information please contact Mary Ann Moore at 250-591-7990 or by email at: creativity@maryannmoore.ca.
Please note: The Bethlehem Centre site will updated soon.
Themes Covered
- A Space of Your Own;
- A Ceremony of Your Own;
- A Walk of Your Own:
- Daily Practices & Delights of Your Own:
- Creating Boundaries of Your Own; and
- Dreams of Your Own.
Intent
- To provide a safe place for people to tell their stories.
- To find the still centre of ourselves and of the circle.
- To write what has heart and meaning for us.
- To realize our role as leaders in a circle of leaders.
- To remember the divine feminine and
embrace our female and male teachers. - To become a community of peers
slowing down to a natural rhythm
Poetry and Other Books
Mending
A chapbook of poems by Mary Ann Moore published by house of appleton (April 2023)
Writing to Map Your Spiritual Journey
Mary Ann shares her expansive knowledge of earth-based practices and goddess spirituality to connect you more deeply to your writing and your own story.
Fishing for Mermaids
Poems by Mary Ann Moore
compendiumshop
Mary Ann's Books
Contact Mary Ann
Send Mary Ann a message