Angela Center

Integrating: spirituality, psychology, social responsibility and the arts

Sponsors of a variety of classes and programs
for self exploration and self development for both men and women

Conference Facility in Santa Rosa, California with accommodations

A Voice of One's Own

As we read her diaries and letters, says writer Maureen Howard in an introduction to Mrs. Dalloway, we see how confident Virginia Woolf was at this point in her career, "... sure that she had found her voice, that depth and meaning were in her control."  Here she began to assemble, says Howard, the bits and pieces, to find the angles, the original voice that would make us feel, for instance, the heroism of Clarissa Dalloway, who "... with all her faults and limitations, with her vanity, with her scrapes of history and Shakespeare, can tell herself to "Fear no more the heat o' the sun." 

In this weekend we will assemble words of Ms. Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Ramsay (To the Lighthouse) and a few other 20th century women - all of us included - to incubate our own words and honor our own fearless interiority.  We will employ writing, art, story, and film to explore, in the privacy of our individual journals, and in the container that the weekend provides, how we are doing in finding our own voice, depth, meaning, and style and how much of it we will, after all, "expose to the sun."

Donna Hardy, M.A. MFCC, is a teacher and psychotherapist who has been leading journal weekends at Angela Center for 22 years.  Enrollment is limited to 24 women.

Cost: $225.   Private room, tuition and meals included.

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A Weekend of Journal Writing

March 12-14
7:30 p.m. Friday - 3 p.m. Sunday