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Writing as Three-Centred Practice: A Conversation with Author Therese DesCamp
May 31 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
The Contemplative Society presents “Writing as Three Centered Practice, with Therese DesCamp
Saturday 31 May 2025
10am to 11:30am PACIFIC TIME.
Join Therese DesCamp for a 90-minute conversation focused on the implications, obligations and revelations experienced by contemplatives who write. DesCamp, who’s been meditating and writing for 35 years, will speak about the role of head, heart and body in her own work process, and facilitate a discussion on these three elements in conscious composition. Included in the workshop will be selections from her new book, “Hands Like Roots: Notes on an Entangled Contemplative Life” (Santos Books, April 2025).
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Therese DesCamp has written essays, articles, reflections and reviews for Willamette Week, The Holy Ghostwriter, the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Religious Studies News, the Journal of Pastoral Psychology, the Monterey Herald, the United Church Observer, Broadview Magazine, and the Valley Voice newspaper. She was long-listed for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize, and has received awards for her scholarship, research, and teaching from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California and United Theological College, Montreal. Therese has taught at Pacific School of Religion; University of California, Berkeley; Graduate Theological Union; Vancouver School of Theology; and in the Grade 4-5-6 classroom at Lucerne Elementary School in New Denver, B.C. She is a member of the 2020 cohort of the Living School, a program of the Center for Action and Contemplation; works as an ordained minister and spiritual director; and has spent over three and a half decades in twelve-step recovery. Therese lives in New Denver, B.C., where she served ten years on the Slocan Lake Stewardship Society and co-sponsored the Convergence Writers’ Retreats from 2012-2019. She currently serves on the board of The Contemplative Society.