About
This workshop was recorded live online on May 31, 2025, hosted by The Contemplative Society. This purchase includes a Zoom video recording with a total running time of approximately 90 minutes. In this contemplative conversation, author and teacher Therese DesCamp explores the art of writing as a three-centred practice—an embodied way of engaging creativity through the integration of head, heart, and body. Drawing on more than three decades of meditation and writing, Therese shares how contemplative awareness can transform both the process and the purpose of writing, opening a deeper channel for truth, beauty, and authenticity to emerge. Participants are invited into reflection and dialogue on the contemplative dimensions of the creative process and how these three centres of knowing can guide us toward more conscious composition. The workshop also includes readings from Therese’s newly published book Hands Like Roots: Notes on an Entangled Contemplative Life (Santos Books, April 2025). As this is a LIVE recording, you may notice some audio variability and background noise. Therese DesCamp has a deep longing to encounter the Holy as expressed through the being-ness of creation. Living in the Kootenays, she integrates her long-term practice of meditation and prayer with her life as a writer, minister, spiritual director, and recovering alcoholic. A founding member and longtime supporter of The Contemplative Society, she is committed to nurturing contemplative practice within everyday life. Her work has been recognized nationally, including a long-listing for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Award. Learn more at widespot.ca