Letters For Us
Sharing Lives & Legacies
Workshops & Presentations
Writing Workshops
Motivational Presentations
Helping to Shape Your Story into a Legacy Via Hands-On Group Sessions
Inspiring Groups of All Sizes to Shape Stories into Legacies
Be inspired to write, share, compile journals and memoirs for fun, around your passions, important life moments or navigating through challenges. Sharing lives and legacies is what we do.
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Conferences
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Corporate Banquets & Events
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Workshops
Each of us has a story to tell. Join a seasoned duo of writers and editors from Letters For Us for a session on compiling legacies about yourself and those you hold close. Results can be short memoirs and provide the foundation for life stories and more.
What To Bring:
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Memories & Ideas
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Experiences That Need Documenting
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Notebook
Potential for follow-up coaching available as needed in the journey of telling your story!
Coaching Sessions
Coaching Your Story into a Legacy
Attend or Host a Coaching Session. We offer experienced coaching on all aspects of memoirs and life stories. We have a passion for telling personal stories and look forward to sharing tips and tools to get your mind rolling, writing, sharing. Coaching hours are for more one-on-one or one project, whole team sessions.
One Hour Increments
2019 Event Schedule
Love of the Land
Summer Writing Series
An inspiring experience for writers in the beautiful country setting of Providence Organic Farm in Central Lake. This is for all who enjoy writing for pleasure or for publication, including journals, essays, poetry, memoirs, non-fiction and fiction books.
Save Your Seat!
The Love of the Land workshops include inspirational self-guided farm walks on over 20 acres just off US 31 in northern Michigan.
Participants are welcome to experience and ask questions about the extensive organic vegetable and flower gardens, working barn, CSA operation. The Providence Farm Market offers an array of organic produce, pastured pork, honey, baked goods, coffee from Providence and local farms.
Attendees are encouraged to submit brief essay or poetry submissions (Upload Below) in advance.
Topics of inspiration include:
Your love of the land
Nature Exploration
Sustainable agriculture
Gardening
Preservation
This workshop series include discussions, readings and display of submissions for group feedback.
Aspiring authors will hear from published writers and seasoned editors, including Virginia Johnson, local author of recently published memoir, 'Ira’s Farm, Growing up on a self-sustaining farm in the 1930s and 1940s.'
Sessions are interactive discussion/presentations offering tips and ideas for writing, engaging, publishing. Each speaker will offer hands-on advice around expertise and experience. Breakouts will include time for follow up writing and sharing throughout. All presenters will offer additional books or services, coaching.
Submit Your "Love of the Land" Essay
COST:
$35 per session including farm tours, writing and sharing, organic dinner on the farm.
3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
LOCATION:
Providence Organic Farm
5691 N., M-88, Central Lake, Michigan
Find Your Flow
2019 Lavender-Inspired
Writing Workshops
Each of us has a personal story to tell, a legacy to share. Be inspired to write and share yours and of those you hold close among lavender fields, working bee gardens, herbal gardens and more. Join writing coaches Jen & Jenn, who have deep experience in storytelling, writing, creating legacies and memoirs. They invite you to sign up for one or both sessions with different themes and writing prompts.
Find Your Flow Session I: You
@ Lavender Hill Farm
Thursday, August 1
1:00pm-3:30pm
$30 Per Person
Share the story of you. Join us for the first of our Lavender Hill Farm Summer Writing Series designed to inspire creative writing and memoirs in the beautiful setting of our gardens and grounds. Walk through the lavender fields with spectacular views, then enjoy reflective writing time about stories and legacies in your life with experienced memoir writers and coaches. Refreshments, Lavender Hill journal notebooks and pens included.
Find Your Flow Session II: Her
@ Lavender Hill Farm
Friday, August 9, 2019
1:00pm-3:30pm
$30 Per Person
Share stories of the women you hold close. Their legacy lives on through the stories you tell. Join us for the second our summer series designed to inspire creative writing and memoirs in the beautiful setting of our gardens and grounds. Walk through the lavender fields with spectacular views, then enjoy reflective writing time about your sisters, close friends, mother, aunt, grandmothers with inspired writing prompts. Refreshments, Lavender Hill journal notebooks and pens included.
In The Past
Events you missed, but can still be inspired by...
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Recipes From the Heart
Storytelling Night
A potluck style sharing with people who love to cook. Share your personal recipes and the family stories behind them. Together we will help create a cookbook of our recipes from the heart.
Storytelling Night at Smoke on the Water
Thursdays 6-8pm
March 8 and April 5
Smoke on the Water
103 Park Avenue
Charlevoix, MI 49720
Bring a dish made with your Recipe from the Heart...and let's eat!
Join us for a potluck style sharing of a favorite recipe from your life, family or friends. Together we will help create a cookbook with your stories and memories. Bring your recipe, photos and any notes you hope to include in our Recipes from the Heart cookbook if you'd like, a dish and recipe is all we require for entry.
Each of us has a story to tell like no other. We look forward to inspiring you to share yours or with those you hold close.
Gather your family and friends for one night or both!
Be inspired. Eat good food. Share family history.
Artist Sharon Smithem of Charlevoix, Michigan shares her family recipe of her grandparents!