Workshops. Writing. Painting. Yoga.
Around the world and online…
Key To The Castle.
About Key To The Castle
As instructors in these forms of art and as active creative citizens in various maker communities, we have witnessed the magic of the multidisciplinary approach. Our mission is to demystify the generative process and offer students a chance to locate their own key to their own castle, no matter where that castle lives. Is it in a physical space? Or, an emotional one? Perhaps, in a place that holds room for both?
We offer adult students a chance to look both inward and outward and see where the paying attention - to body, mind and soul - leads. Our immediate goal is to provide time and space for those individuals who are looking to leave their usual creative comfort zone and locate a new one - for just a day, or a weekend, or even a full week - with our longer vision to grow a supportive community of creative people who nurture and celebrate each other along the way.
Key to the Castle Workshop for Writers in Torre di Cetara
October 19 - 26, 2024
Join Kathy Curto, Patricia (aka T.M.) Dunn, William Papaleo & Angela Derecas Taylor on our signature workshop on the Amalfi Coast.
Ten to the End
10 Months to the End of Your Book
Next workshop begins October 7, 2024
with Pat Dunn and Alexandra Soiseth
Ten months to the end of your book is a unique blend of generative writing and story development, with craft teaching and practice sessions as well as extensive connection and accountability sessions and structures. Ideal for the writer with a partial or first draft needing refining and/or focus and/or building, or, the writer with just the seedling of an idea and a few notes. APPLY NOW or click on the photo!
Testimonials
“Finally, a way to really get it done! Incisive individual coaching. Optional writing ‘alongside’ kept me moving. Alex and Pat are a fun, fabulous, honest, accessible, encouraging team. Highly recommend!” - Deborah
"Before signing up for Ten Months to the End, I was floundering with my unfinished manuscript, lost on the ocean in a raft drifting on the tides. This course has provided me with a tiller, rudder, mast, sails and a sextant to take me to where I needed to go and cross the finish line with my novel. With craft classes, one on one time, plot discussion, group writing and a host of valuable information, I have not only achieved my goal but am now looking forward to the remaining three months to fine tune and edit with the assistance of Alex and Pat. These accomplished writers and teachers are always available to assist and I highly recommend this class." -Corinne
Our Process and Who Should Apply
In our teaching work together, we regularly offer prompts to our students and ask them to take the ideas or questions into a walk-through nature, then onto their yoga mat, and ultimately to the canvas and / or their blank page. We encourage students to approach their process without judgement and look to nature, our community and their own internal musings for guidance. We promote full engagement with the senses and believe this too offers opportunity to shake up memories and ways of seeing the world: past, present and future.
The ideal participant is open to adventure and discovery as a community of artists. One benefit of working as an artist in community with others is the gaining of new insight, particularly when it comes to ways of seeing and valuing their own work—both process and product. This applies on the page, the mat, out in the natural world and on the canvas. An ideal student also recognizes the importance of getting away from their own day to day life to experience the illuminating effects of travel and the sharing of culture—in all ways. Many students attend our workshops to collect fresh understandings of their own promise as artists and to gain the variety of perspectives that come from being in a new place.