Here were the workshops for Spring 2015

Daring Greatly with Sarah
In this workshop, we’ll dive deep our personal relationship with fear, our fears themselves, and how we want to transform them. We’ll use the safety and support of the group, Glen Brook, and the Spring community at large to stretch our boundaries, expand our comfort zones, and question our assumptions while compassionately engaging with what scares us. Through discussion, group activities and challenges, and extraordinary feats of derring do, we’ll figure out what it means to be courageous, and hopefully come away with heightened self-awareness and some badass new superpowers we can use in our everyday lives.

 

Let’s Write a Book with Bryce
Write genre fiction, (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Steampunk, Post-Apocalyptic, etc) with a fun group dynamic. We can plan the whole piece together and write some each day, adjusting the plan as we go. We likely won’t finish the whole thing, but if there are 5 of us writing two pages a day for 7 days that’s 70 pages. After Spring we can continue working on it over the internet.

 

DIY Canvas and Leather Adventure with Thor
Tips and tools to create personalized bags, pouches, backpacks and the like. There will be a limited stock of canvas, leather, Velcro, snaps and zips on hand, as well as old bags, leather jackets, and backpacks to deconstruct. Create something new or re-purpose something old.

 

A Pattern of Patterns with April
A discussion group centered around noticing patterns and habits in our lives, and working to create new patterns and/or change existing ones. This will be a largely informal discussion where we share strategies for changing and creating patterns and habits, talk about changes we would like to make, and encourage each other to follow through and keep the changes up after Spring. Drawing and doodling patterns during the discussion is strongly encouraged. (If this sounds familiar that may be because this workshop also happened at Spring 2014.)

 

Building Things and Walking in Funny Ways with Lorraine
Stilts and slack line (more description to come).

 

TableTop RPG’ing with Anthony
In which we explore the collaborative storytelling possibilities of table top role-playing games, in this case using the D&D 5th edition core rules. The workshop will involve character creation (this will be completed on the first day of the workshop), some mini-quests (playable in one session), and ideally a longer quest to fill out the week. Accessible to long-weekenders and full-week Springers, this workshop should serve as an introduction to tabletop role-playing games for the new gamer, and as an exploration of collaborative storytelling for all players.

For those interested, there is some helpful introductory documentation online at dnd.wizards.com (not required reading, but it might help move things along). Also, a snarky webcomic (see alt text) for perspective. I will bring several sets of polyhedral dice, but those who have dice are encouraged to bring them, too.

 

Games! with Tashin and Will
Inside games! Outside games! Board games! Card games! Frisbee golf! Play all the games! (more description to come)

 

Be-in with Jake
Not quite sure what to do? Want to do different things every day? Why not do it together?

 

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