Presentations, Workshops, and Retreats

I teach a variety of classes, workshops, and retreats on creativity, writing, and contemplative arts & photography. Browse my upcoming offerings below, or contact me to arrange a customized course for your group or organization.
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FEATURED UPCOMING EVENTS

Personal Sustainability and Creativity through Writing and Contemplative Arts
with Melinda Rothouse & Katherine Semler
Girona, Spain (outside Barcelona)
October 9-14, 2023

Ready to replenish your energetic reservoir? In this world of speed and burnout, it’s increasingly vital to pause and rejuvenate ourselves. Join us this fall at Mas Estrellas, a beautiful retreat space surrounded by nature in rural Girona, Spain (outside of Barcelona). In this retreat we’ll cultivate our personal sustainability by reconnecting with creativity and joy. Each day will include group discussion and meals, writing and contemplative arts activities, as well as plenty of quiet time and personal reflection in nature. We’ll tend to our physical selves through walking, hiking, biking, gardening and/or yoga.

More Details and Registration Here
​(Click the link above and scroll down to the Spain event) ​

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The Art of Impermanence: New Beginnings
A Week-Long Retreat with Jake Lorfing & Melinda Rothouse
January, 2-8, 2024
Casa Werma Retreat Center, Patzcuaro, Mexico

The Art of Impermanence explores the process of change and becoming, of the ephemerality of our everyday experience, through the lens of creativity and contemplative arts practice. Through a combination of daily mindfulness meditation practice and creative arts exercises, we will explore the vulnerability inherent in our existence as sentient beings, observing how all phenomena arise and pass away. Using an array of artistic media, including writing, photography, movement, sound, and visual arts, we’ll awaken to the fluid nature of life from the loving container and lush gardens of Casa Werma in Patzcuaro, Mexico.

Details & Registration Here

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Writing from the Heart: A Contemplative Writing Retreat
with Melinda Rothouse & Mayela Padilla Manasjan
Casa Werma Retreat Center, Patzcuaro, Mexico
April 29 - May 4, 2024

This 4-day contemplative writing retreat is a wonderful opportunity to connect with your writing at Casa Werma a beautiful, nature-filled retreat environment. By observing with a curious mind and tender heart, resting in stillness and bearing witness, we are invited to reconnect with ourselves, our written words and the world around us.

This retreat is open to writers of all levels and genres and will include contemplative writing prompts and exercises, plenty of writing time, group discussion and sharing of your work if desired.  This retreat is meant to inspire and encourage the writer in you, deepen your relationship with yourself and your writing and make some new friends in the process. All are welcome!

More Details and Registration Here!

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Full 2023 Event Calendar

Music Show: Melinda Joy & Jason Hendrix
Longleaf Craft Kitchen, Wimberley Texas
Thursday, January 12, 7-10 pm

Music Show: Melinda Joy & Jason Hendrix
Longleaf Craft Kitchen, Wimberley Texas
Thursday, April 6, 7-10 pm

The Art of Impermanence: Grounding in Vulnerability through Creative Process
A Week-Long Retreat with Jake Lorfing & Melinda Rothouse
April 16-22, 2023
Casa Werma Retreat Center, Patzcuaro, Mexico

Songwriters & Storytellers: A Creative Process Workshop
with Melinda Rothouse
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm
Story Parlor, Asheville, NC
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Music Show: Melinda Joy & Jason Hendrix
Dos Olivos, Wimberley Texas
Saturday, May 13, 12-3 pm

Conference Presentations: Exploring Creative Citizenship (with Charlotte Gullick) +
​Songwriting, Storytelling and the Unconscious: A Process Talk and Performance
2023 Creativity Conference at Southern Oregon University
May 18-21-2023

Music Show: Melinda Joy & Jason Hendrix
Dos Olivos, Wimberley Texas
Saturday, June 3, 5-8 pm

​Workshop: Finding Your Voice for Enhanced Expression & Joy
with Melinda Rothouse and Thais Bicalho Silva
Saturday, June 24, 2023, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Central Time
Mystic Oaks, Wimberley, Texas

Music Show: Melinda Joy & Jason Hendrix
Longleaf Craft Kitchen, Wimberley Texas
Thursday, September 21, 7-10 pm

Personal Sustainability and Creativity through Writing and Contemplative Arts
with Melinda Rothouse & Katherine Semler
Girona, Spain (outside Barcelona)
October 9-14, 2023
More Details and Registration Here

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Syncreate Monthly Creativity Meetup

Join Syncreate founders Melinda Rothouse and Charlotte Gullick for our monthly creativity gathering. 
Free! For more information and to join the Syncreate Meetup group, please visit: 
http://www.meetup.com/Syncreate-Creativity-Collaboration-Community-in-Austin/