Writers & Creative Friends - do you seek deeper inspiration and clarity for your work-in-process? Trying to start a new project or choose between multiple storytelling options? Struggling with writer doubt (who isn't)?
The Signs, Synchronicities & Storytelling BEtreat is for you! Join us for a day of literary inspiration through creative workshops, nature exploration, compassionate conversation and Tarot power — and enjoy time to write in a beautiful, calming space.
This BEtreat offered by Be Well Be Here in collaboration with Blaze Tarot features New York Times / international bestselling author and co-founder of A Mighty Blaze, Jenna Blum, who specializes in Tarot readings for creatives and their projects, especially books! Jenna will share writing wisdom with the group and offer personal Tarot sessions to help guide you toward inspired next steps in your writing life.
Jenna will be joined by celebrated memoirist, speaker and healthcare activist, Maryanne O’Hara, author of Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark. Maryanne’s Mindful Storytelling Session will explore how the synchronicities that we humans experience help us find meaning and purpose in our lives. Using images and reflections that speak to universal themes, Maryanne will share her story of finding light in our darkest hours and offer suggestions for discovering one’s purpose.
The Signs, Synchronicities & Storytelling BEtreat invites you to Be inspired, boost your creativity and come home to your natural way of wellBeing!
Sunday, September 25 at 9 am - 5:30 pm in Concord, MA
Choose the half- or full-day program on Sunday, September 25:
9:00-9:15 MORNING PROGRAM WELCOME
9:15-9:30 Meditation for Creativity with BWBH Founder, Lara Wilson
9:30-11:00 Synchronicities & Storytelling with Maryanne O’Hara
11:15-12:00 Inspiration in Nature, an outdoor experience with Lara Wilson
12:00-12:45 LUNCHTIME TRANSITION (Lunch included for morning program*)
12:45 - 1:00 AFTERNOON PROGRAM WELCOME
1:00-1:30 Creativity and Tarot Talk with Jenna Blum
1:30-5:00 Tarot & Time to Write
Tarot Readings with Jenna (30 minutes)
Afternoon time to write, chat about the writing process, walk in nature and Be present
5:00-5:30 Closing Mindful Practice
Space is limited to 8 participants for greater wellBEing and to provide personalized attention.
Half-Day BEtreat for $144 (choose morning or afternoon)
Full-Day BEtreat for $288
Be Well Be Here offers scholarships and subsidized fees to share practice with ALL. Please Be in touch if you have any questions by emailing Jen at info@bewellbehere.org
*Lunch options from Debra’s Natural Gourmet will be shared after registration.
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; the novella “The Lucky One” in the collection Grand Central; and the memoir Woodrow on the Bench, about her senior black Lab and what his last seven months taught her, available now from Harper Collins.
Jenna is one of Oprah’s Top Thirty Women Writers, with her work published in over 20 countries, and cofounder/CEO of literary social media marketing company A Mighty Blaze. Jenna’s New York Times and internationally bestselling first novel, Those Who Save Us, won the Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel; Jenna interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation for five years. Jenna is a sought-after public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally; for her 1st novel, she visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone.
Jenna is based in Boston, where she has been running master fiction and novel workshops for over 20 years. She earned her M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University and was the fiction editor for AGNI Literary Magazine. For more information about Jenna and to share her real-time adventures, please follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Maryanne O’Hara’s deeply moving story has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe and Psychology Today. Her book Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark has been a People Magazine Book of the Week and led to a New York Times Magazine cover story. Since the release of Little Matches, Maryanne has spoken to hundreds of general readers, medical professionals, and students, and has been hosted by Harvard Medical School’s Author Series as well as other universities, bookstores, libraries, and hospitals. Maryanne is also the author of the novel Cascade, which was the Boston Globe Book Club’s inaugural pick, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, and a People Magazine Book of the Week. Her story collection was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Iowa Short Fiction Award. After volunteering as an end-of-life volunteer at care facilities in Boston and Pittsburgh, Maryanne trained as a certified end-of-life doula at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine in 2019.
Maryanne earned her MFA at Emerson College, where she taught creative writing and spent many years as the Associate Fiction Editor for Ploughshares, the award-winning Boston literary journal. In addition to teaching at Clark University, she won grants from the St. Botolph Club and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Learn more about Maryanne’s literary journey on Instagram and Facebook, and sign up for occasional updates, doses of optimism and more.
