In her evening presentation, “Creating Your Destiny,” Terry Laszlo-Gopadze, editor of The Spirit of a Women: Stories to Empower and Inspire, will share stories from her book with the hope that they will inspire you to live your life with more meaning, passion and purpose. Each of us has a great calling, or dream. Our dreams, our longings and even our challenges can lead us to where we belong in the world. We are creating our future, whether we realize it or not, by the stories we choose to guide us.

The workshop series will bring participants together to hear stories with the diverse themes: “Connections,” “The Gift in the Challenge,” “Changes and Choices,” “Divine Interventions.” We will gather in a circle to conceive, compose, and tell stories, while being offered ideas to start your own stories. Every story has a gift. What will yours be?

October 27 – November 3, 2012
Rancho La Puerta
Tecate, Mexico

Rancho La Puerta

Terry at Rancho La Puerta

Presenting Creating Your Destiny, Terry Laszlo-Gopadze, editor of The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire, will share stories from the book that speak to the importance of following our great dreams and callings.  Terry will describe the ways in which stories can help us to engage in lives of deeper meaning, purpose and creative fire. She will also share how our longings guide us to where we belong. As we claim the future, we also stand up and take our place in the world.  Each of us has a great destiny.  What will yours be?

Green Valley Spa in Utah
Thursday May 5^th at 7pm

www.GreenValleySpa.com

The International Women’s Writing Guild

Presents its 61st

BIG APPLE CONFERENCE

Saturday, April 16, 2011 “Memoir and Metaphor:  Illuminating Your Life through Writing”

Sunday, April 17, 2011
 Meet the Authors (Terry Laszlo-Gopadze is on this

Panel) Meet the Agents

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South (just East of East 20th Street)
New York City

“The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire”

7 p.m. March 23rd, Women’s History Month
Schlafly Library
St. Louis, MO
Left Bank Books will sell books.

Alice Butler Collins and Janet Grace Riehl lead a women’s empowerment event during Women’s History Month. We’ll share our stories in the anthology and engage the audience is remembering their own stories.

Alice Butler Collins (of Chicago) website: www.alicebutlercollins.com

Janet Grace Riehl’s (of St. Louis) website: www.riehlife.com

Here’s the link on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Woman-Stories-Empower-Inspire/dp/1595800522

Friday, March 18 to Sunday, March 20, 2011

Bosch Bahái School, 500 Comstock Lane, Santa Cruz, California

Setting: The California Conference, in its 28th year, takes place at Bosch Bahai School, a 67 acre retreat center situated in the Santa Cruz Mountains among the Redwood Trees.

Program: How do we transform our simple thoughts into works that will transfix the reader? Can we become borrowers, using the information and form the great masters; nature’s images, and our own poetic lines? The alchemy of language stems from being open to inspiration wherever we find it. Come join us in finding robust nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to make our writing shimmer.

WORKSHOPS:

Imitation to Originality – Modeling Our Work on the Masters’: Richelle McClain

Nature as Thesaurus – Culling Vibrant Images from the Pages of Nature: Mary Reynolds Thompson

Poetry as Springboard – Start with a Poem; Finish with a Flourish: Rachel de Baere

Workshop Directors:

Richelle McClain, Mary Reynolds Thoompson, and Rachel de Baere (see website for bios)

Conference Fees:

Members:

• Weekend guests inclusive of entire program, two nights room and all meals: $375
• Weekend commuters inclusive of program, exclusive of room and meals: $160
• Day attendees – Saturday Only: $125
• Day attendees – Sunday Only: $55

Non-Members:

• Weekend guests inclusive of entire program, two nights room and all meals: $395
• Weekend commuters inclusive of program, exclusive of room and meals: $180
• Day attendees – Saturday Only: $150
• Day attendees – Sunday Only – $70

Registration Deposit (will be applied to the registration fee): $60

Meals: Breakfast ($9), Lunch ($12), Dinner ($13)

IWWG Annual Membership: $55
Payment: Payment may be made by credit card at www.iwwg.org. Click on Events/Calandar. Or send a check made out to IWWG and mail it to: IWWG, P.O. Box 810, New York, NY  10028.

Regional IWWG Representatives:

Northern California: Rachel de Baere (415) 456-4574, itsmerach@comcast.net
IWWG Headquarters: Hannelore Hahn (212) 737-7536, dirhahn@aol.com

With Terry Laszlo-Gopadze and Sheri Ritchlin

May 19 – May 26, 2012
Rancho La Puerta
Tecate, Mexico

Terry Laszlo-Gopadze, editor of The Spirit of a Women: Stories to Empower and Inspire, and editor/contributor Sheri will share stories from the book and consider the ways in which such personal narratives can heal, especially through clarifying and strengthening the sense of self and purpose.  The workshop series will bring participants together in a circle to conceive, compose, and tell their stories, offering techniques for transforming energies of crisis and suffering into a rich and meaningful narrative. Every story has a gift. What will yours be?  In the final session, we will carry those stories in a quiet sharing through a labyrinth walk in the Ranch oak grove.

www.rancholapuerta.com