Most workshops teach craft - this Creativity Retreat for Writers will ignite your imagination. Over three inspiring days spent in a peaceful residential setting with Dr Betty O'Neill, you'll enter a creative playground to unlock bold ideas, vivid stories, and new ways of thinking. Guided by the four quadrants of creative intelligence - imagination, intuition, insight, and inspiration - you'll dabble with playful, research-based practices from neuroscience, psychology, and the arts as your innate creativity meets storytelling magic. With time to write, reflect, and connect, you'll leave with fresh tools, confidence, and renewed creative energy for your storytelling. 

Commencing at 9am with a morning and evening session each of the three days, and each afternoon free to focus on your writing, this Creativity Retreat will be held at Dormie House, 38 Arthur Street, Moss Vale.  Limited to 12 participants. For full details send your expression of interest to writers@writersatthewoolshed.com.au.

Bio:
Dr Betty O'Neill has a Doctorate of Creative Arts, a Grad. Dip. Music Therapy, M. Bus., a Grad. Dip. Employment Relations, a B. Sc. (Hons), a B.A. (History & Psychology)Betty is a Sydney-based author, workshop and retreat facilitator, and university lecturer in Creative Intelligence and Innovation in the TD (Transdisciplinary) School at the University of Technology Sydney. She has a passion for learning, as her eclectic range of degrees attests, most recently a Doctorate of Creative Arts, and her teaching is underpinned with sound research, interactive processes and creativity. Betty loves facilitating writing workshops and retreats, talking writing, books and creativity and paddling the waterways in her inflatable kayak. As a past Director of the Board of the Society of Australian Genealogy (SAG), Betty has a passion for memoir and family history and facilitates regular Introduction to Writing Family History workshops for both SAG and Writing NSW. Betty’s debut memoir, The Other Side of Absence, was published in 2020, and she has also published a range of articles and book chapters and presented conference papers and workshops in Australia and overseas. Betty is currently researching and writing a memoir/family history on intergenerational homelessness.