The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat—Retreat Schedule
Nov. 17
6:00pm-7:00pm Arrive, Gather, and Meet
Drinks and Food Grilled on Site
7:00pm-8:00pm Retreat Orientation
Review Itinerary
Questions and Answers
8:00-9:30pm Desert Initiation Workshop: Opening the Circle, Intention Setting and Creative Goals
Nov. 18
7:00am-9:00am Breakfast
Open Period *This period is a time for creative council with facilitators as well as generation of work, exploration of ideas and places, reading, or other engagements with the environment
9:00am-10:30am Commun(e)ication: Ontopoetics and Dialoguing with Place (Sean)
10:30am-12:00pm Open Period
12:00pm-1:00pm High Noon Ceremony (Ariel)
1:00pm-3:00pm Lunch and Open Period
*Commute to 49 Palms Oasis Site for Following Workshops
3:00pm-4:30pm Eco-Consciousness and Creative Praxis: Engaging the Web (Sean)
4:30pm-6:00pm Desert Alchemy and Wabi Sabi at 49 Palms Oasis (Ariel)
6:00-8:30pm Exploring Locales, Dinner
Open Period
8:30pm-9:00pm Process Circle: This time can be used for participants to share ideas, explore insights or questions from the workshops
9:00pm-10:00pm Featuring Reading around the fire pit with Ruth Nolan and L.I. Henley
10:00pm-11:00pm Altered States and Psycho-Spiritual Legacies of the Desert (Sean)
Nov. 19
8:30am-9:30am Transhistorical and Cultural Geographies as Source (Sean)
9:30am-11:00am Open Period
11:00am-12:30pm Geologic Formations as Muse: Rectangular Joints and Memory Distillation (Ariel)
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm Closing Ceremony