The inaugural virtual writer’s Retreat for mothers who write, introducing: Scribente Maternum: Write Like a Mother featuring Baltimore’s Maria Broom, Karen Houppert, and introducing M. M. De Voe and Rebecca Walker.

A series of four 2.5 hour sessions of uninterrupted time to nurture the writer side of you and to embrace your motherhood. Scribente Maternum is a writing retreat for parents serving in the ever-important maternal role. It is a space where creativity and care are nourished and cultivated. It is a call to action to do something even bigger through collective care. In-person and virtual retreats, as well as safe online communities, will be offered.

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SESSION TWO
Taking Care of Ourselves: The Oxygen Mask
Speaker: M. M. De Voe

In the spirit of the airplane oxygen mask in which we’re reminded to mask up before assisting others, this session is designed to provide a centering opportunity to create a space for us to tend to ourselves so that we can more effectively turn the care outwards. We’ll begin with self-care from the lens of activism and inclusion to ensure that roots of our self-care create a better world for everyone.

The session will provide practical tools for daily centering and mindfulness to create the mental space for all that is on our plates: writing, parenting, activism. Facilitators will lead us through a real-time mindfulness practice and connect that to how we can foster that in the day-to-day.

What we’ll explore through this session:
Mindfulness and its connection to collective care
Practical ways to create space for creativity in our busy lives
Goals to create space for self-care and mindfulness in our daily lives

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For more information about the scheduled events, visit www.scribentematernum.com/schedule.

To register, click here.