OCT. ‘26-- New Survey- 

answer and you’ll get put in a draw for a 100 dollar discount on our Next Retreat

As some of you know, I’ve been presenting an annual retreat with my dear friend Arvi for seven years now. We had a successful one last month in a lovely space that was new to us east of Toronto.

We’re pondering and shifting our focus for next year. We’ve been presenting a weekend that has included Arvi’s remarkable food and her morning yoga classes (with the recent addition of her ‘sound bathing’ experience,) combined with my facilitation work with songwriters. 

We’ve had some participants over the last few years who really appreciated the welcoming environment we are able to provide, yet wanted to focus on a different creative project or just enjoy the space and the time away. SO, for this coming year we’re thinking of moving beyond songwriting to include ‘creatives’ in general. If you’ve got a project to work on or a creative goal to achieve and want a quiet, nurturing space to help things along, we’d be interested in seeing if we can help with that. As well as a songwriter, some of you know me as a playwright, novelist, essayist and storyteller. I can support any writing project, and we’re thinking of adding the overly talented Trina Koster to add to Arvi’s many skills who would encourage visual arts, specifically photography as part of the mix. 

We’ve found a potential spot in Muskoka with a beautiful natural environment that encourages creativity of all kinds and there are a couple of other retreat venues we are looking at. 

We’re looking for your input about this since your voice matters in this! 

We’ve created a survey- below, that would help us gauge interest and shape what we might create for next year.  To encourage you, there’s a prize if you choose to participate. We’ll put all the respondents name in a hat and the one we draw will get a one hundred dollar discount on next year’s retreat!

Here are the questions… and feel free to add your own thoughts. Thanks for considering this! AND pass it along to anyone who you think might be interested!

1. Would you be interested in participating in a ‘creatives’ retreat ?
2. Would your preference be to have it late Spring or early Fall?
3. Would you be willing to share a room, or would you prefer your own?
4. Are you OK with shared washrooms?
5. How far would you be willing to travel to the retreat? 
6. We are considering expanding the timeframe so you can really dig in to your project. One option is for 5 nights rather than three nights. Would that interest you?
7. Related: what is the ideal # of nights for you?
8. What other artistic interests do you have that we might be able to accommodate?

Thanks in advance for the feedback and I hope we see you down the road

And we’d love too see a response By November 15th if you’d like your name in the draw

You can copy this and send the answers to james@jamesgordon. ca

James with Arvi