Workshops
Retreats
Coaching
Writing Groups

     "I wake
            from a river of dreams     laughing places
                long forgotten…"
River of Dreams Workshops
Writing for Everyone:    Beginning writing for anyone who wishes to write!
10 Minute Writing!:      This workshop provides a creative, well-organized,                                      approach to writing for busy people.

River of Dreams Retreats
Day-long Writing Retreats Overlooking the San Pablo Bay
Join Marie Elena for a day of writing, dreaming, creating and exploring. Retreats Offer: Writing time, writing development and exercises, personal time, group connection.

River of Dreams Coaching Services
  • Manuscript Writing
  • CreativeVisioning
  • Project Organization
  • Accessing the Mind Jewel
River of Dreams Writing Groups
To join an ongoing, weekly writing group please contact Marie Elena.

Marie Elena is a published author and award winning poet. Her poem, Dreaming Back My Sisters, was awarded the 2005 Grand Prize by Embassy Artists International and was chosen for performance at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Marie Elena’s unique combination of poetry, ritual and sacred dance, The Song of the Self Blessing Dance, was performed by Marie Elena at the 2001 Bay Area Author Series, Oakland, California.

Marie Elena is a grant recipient of the Friends of the Library in Pinole, California for her writing workshops with adults. She has taught writing workshops for teens in conjunction with the Friends of the Library in Los Gatos, California, 2002-2004, and was a presenter at the Jack London Writers Camp for Kids at West Valley College in Saratoga, 2001 and 2002.

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