strong offer friday : what is your need or desire?
Do you want to join an amazing community of people who are focused on courage, creativity, community, and compassion?
If so, Life is a Verb Camp is for you. Four days of making things, learning from diverse voices, and more. Like Summer Camp for adults! This year, we’ll explore bookmaking, body image and embroidery, race dialogue, prayer flag creation, memoir writing, mosaic creation, and more. This is Patti’s flagship event, now in its fourth year. Limited to 137 people. For men and women. $837.
Are you a writer or artist who needs to get organized?
“Organizing Your Creative Life” is for you, based on Patti’s own experiences with what it takes to be most productive and creative. This new four-week online class will help you understand the reasons you are disorganized and provide strategies for changing that, not to alter your creative process but to enhance and deepen it–and help you get unstuck. Lots of tools and tips, along with deeper dives. Next course starts April 21. $99
Do you want to make a Leap?
Each month this year, Patti and her husband, John Ptak, are helping people take leaps (in honor of Leap Year). These 10-day courses may change your idea about what leap you most want to take, and will help you explore how to get to the real leap that most needs and wants to happen in your life. Next course starts April 22. $37.
Do you need to establish and maintain better personal boundaries for yourself?
I spent the last 137 days of 2015 exploring boundaries–why I didn’t have better boundaries, how to discern what boundaries are important to me and how to set those boundaries, and how to maintain the boundaries once set. I’d like to share what I learned with you in this new four-week class. Starts May 19th. $99.
Are you a kid who wants to write more? Or do you have a kid whose writing you would like to encourage?
All-new VerbTribe Summer Camps for Kids will keep your child entertained and engaged in online summer camps for writers. There will be sessions in June and July for ages 9-12 and for ages 13-18. Writers will be challenged with daily writing assignments and each writer will receive written feedback on their work from Patti. This will be a safe, encouraging place for your child to get real feedback on their writing without the pressure of a grade. Sessions will run June 20-24 and July 11-15 for ages 9-12; and June 27-July 8 and July 18-29 for ages 13-18.
Do you want to be a more effective ally for people of color?
Hard Conversations: An Intro to Racism is an intensive four-week class to help you understand the history of racism in the U.S., explore white privilege and white fragility in a safe online learning environment, and learn from diverse faculty about their lives as people of color. This course changes lives. The next one starts April 25 – May 23. $99
Do you want to write the stories of your life to leave behind for your family?
When you die, what stories will you be leaving behind? Stories are how we make sense of the world around us, and family stories help us become more resilient in an uncertain world–even the hard stories. In this eight-week memoir course co-taught by Patti and her husband, John Ptak, we’ll explore your stories in a way you haven’t before, providing prompts for 15 life stories you will start and hone during the course. Starts May 12. Limited to 12 writers. $535
Do you want to write into healing and discernment?
This 2nd annual women’s retreat at the ocean will help you do just that. We will explore healing through story-making and use words and silence to move us toward right discernment of what is next in our lives. For 12 women only. $1950.
Do you want to live your best, most mindful life now?
A brand new retreat for women based on Patti’s book, “Life is a Verb,” this is for anyone who asks the question, “isn’t there more to life?” The answer is, simply, yes. This retreat will explore the six practices in Life is a Verb, showing how to embed them in your life in meaningful and sustainable ways, as well as engaging with the philosophical underpinnings of all her books. This is Patti’s new flagship retreat–intensive, restorative, and challenging, as well as inspiring. We will meet by the ocean off the coast of Georgia for five nights and six days in a luxurious private home. For 10 women only. $3700. September 18-23, 2016. To express interest, write Patti at support@pattidigh.com.
