Retreat Schedule
Enjoy three days of exciting Conscious Songwriting workshops and exercises, meals, songwriting & sharing in a lovely setting with accomplished songwriting teachers and your peers. View the 2018 schedule below to get an idea of what to expect at the upcoming retreat!
2018 SCHEDULE
Day 1 – Friday Sep, 28
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Tara Room
Opening Circle
With John Stringer & Alan Roy Scott
Let's Get Started!
Join Co-Hosts, John Stringer & Alan Roy Scott for the 2018 Conscious Songwriting Retreat opening circle where you’ll be welcomed and get a chance to know your hosts a little better.
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Tara Room
Intentions, Backgrounds & Sharing
About You & Your Music
No matter what your background, this will be your opportunity to share some background about yourself, your intentions and a song you’re proud of – so be sure to bring your instrument! Of course, if you don’t play an instrument, you can sing a cappella.. and if you haven’t written any songs yet, NO PROBLEM! Just let us know that that’s why you’re here!!!!
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Two 01 Restaurant
Community Dinner
Time for Nourishment!
All meals are provided during your retreat and will be enjoyed together as a group. We’ll announce locations at each meal.
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Tara Room
ARS Songwriting Session #1
With Alan Roy Scott
About Your First ARS Session
Here’s where you’ll receive an initial overview and co-writing session where Alan will explain some of his basic songwriting philosophy around the idea of “contrast” through analysis and examples, and then move into co-writing exercises that utilizes the principles laid out in a fun, hands-on fashion. Bring your instrument if you have one!
10:00pm
Tara Room
Evening Jam Session
More About Our Jam Sessions
This is where we all share in sing & playing music together, so don’t forget your instrument.
Day 2 – Saturday Sep, 29
8:00am - 8:45am
Tara Room
Morning Meditation & Guidance
With John Stringer
Why We're Here!
John will lead a morning meditation to get us started and ready for the day’s wonderful activities as well as share some of the principles that will remind you of the infinite possibilities you can choose from. At the heart of our 2018 Conscious Songwriting Retreat, we wish to both assist you in conscious songwriting and in expanding your awareness into more of who you are so you can access the wonderful power you have to create the music & the life you deserve!
8:45am – 10:00am
Two01 Restaurant
Breakfast
Time for Nourishment!
All meals are provided during your retreat and will be enjoyed together as a group. We’ll announce locations at each meal.
10:00am - 12:00pm
Tara Room
Alignment Conscious Songwriting Session
With John Stringer
Aligning with Your Innate Genius!
John will share how he applies the alignment meditation to writing his songs with ease and flow and share the practices that help shape the songs into what’s seeking to be birthed! You’ll want to ensure you have a notebook and small recording device (smart phone voice recorder, etc.) for this session so you can take notes and continue practicing later on at your convenience.
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Two 01 Restaurant
Community Lunch
Time for Nourishment!
All meals are provided during your retreat and will be enjoyed together as a group. We’ll announce locations at each meal.
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Tara Room
Guest Speaker Songwriting Session
With Jill Colucci, Multi-Platinum, #1 Hit writing, Award Winning Songwriter
Write, Write, Write
Jill will share some of the highlights of her hugely successful career as a hit songwriter, spanning over many decades. She’ll discuss creativity and inspiration, her songwriting process, and stories behind some of her hits. You’ll want to ensure you have a notebook and a small recording device (smart phone voice recorder, etc.) for this session.
3:00PM – 4:30pm
Your Choice
Free Time
Excercise, Relax or Continue Practicing What You've Learned
Whether you want to maintain your fitness routine, relax in your room, continue practicing what you’ve learned so far or something else, this is your time to enjoy yourself. The Crowne Plaza has a wonderful assortment of wellness opportunties nearby, including indoor billiards located in the bar lounge area. Guest room seating areas also have table tennis tables.
Other offerings include the following (see front-desk for details):
- American Football
- Basketball
- Bicycling
- Billiards
- Hiking
- Jogging Track
- Outdoor Tennis Courts
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Table Tennis or Ping Pong
- Volleyball
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Tara Room
Guest Speaker Songwriting Session
With Patricia Bahia, Award Winning Singer-Songwriter & Music Licensing Expert
Music Licensing Workshop
How would you like to have your music reach thousands, even millions of people nationally, or internationally? If your priority is to reach as many people as you can, then doing a show to 55 people in a club or church, most of whom have heard you a million times, is not nearly as effective as getting your music into commercials, trailers, TV Shows and promos and heard literally all over the country/world.
In this workshop we will examine songs that have been successfully licensed and learn how you can license your songs. We will cover:
- How you can write authentic songs that are true to you and your artist brand and also effective for licensing
- What themes and lyrics work well for licensing (great news for conscious songwriters—many of these themes are ones we are already writing and singing about!)
- What works sonically and production-wise for different types of licensing
- Resources for researching the shows, movies and brands that your music fits with.
- How to get your songs to the people and companies who will license it
- How licensing agency and publishing deals work
- Basics of copyright as it relates to licensing your music
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Two01 Restaurant
Community Dinner
Time for Nourishment!
All meals are provided during your retreat and will be enjoyed together as a group. We’ll announce locations at each meal.
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Tara Room
ARS Songwriting Session #2
With Alan Roy Scott
About Your Second ARS Session
Come prepared with instruments for more group collaboration and co-writing exercises drawn from various ideas and assignments such as writing songs for a specific artist, writing songs for a Film/TV show, writing to a pre-existing recorded tracks (“toplining’), and more!
10:00pm
Tara Room
Evening Jam Session
More About Our Jam Sessions
This is where we all share in sing & playing music together, so don’t forget your instrument.
Day 3 – Sunday Sep, 30
8:00am - 8:45am
Tara Room
Morning Meditation & Aligned Movement
With John Stringer
Let's Go Deeper!
John will lead another morning meditation and guide you through an aligned movement session that will help clear emotional and psychological blocks, expand your awareness and help you sense an inner peace that is always available . If you have a yoga matt, bring one for this morning session and wear something comfortable and or athletcic (sweats, yoga outfit, etc.)!
8:45am – 10:00am
Two01 Restaurant
Breakfast & Check Out
Time for Nourishment & Retreat Center Check Out!
This will be a great time to go ahead and check out before or after breakfast. Just make sure to complete both in time so you don’t miss the next session. All meals are provided during your retreat and will be enjoyed together as a group. We’ll announce locations at each meal.
10:00am - 12:00pm
Tara Room
Group Alignment Songwriting Session
With John Stringer
Tapping Into Our Collective Wisdom Together!
In this session, John will guide you through an alignment songwriting session where we’ll write a complete song together in the time allotted. You’ll build on the practice you learned from John’s first session and see ways to apply it to songwriting with others in a way that honors our higher levels of consciousness / creativity along with the levels of creation we engage when writing songs or creating anything else we’d like to experience! Bring your notebook and your small recording device (smart phone voice recorder, etc.).
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Two01 Restaurant
Community Lunch
Time for Nourishment!
All meals are provided during your retreat and will be enjoyed together as a group. We’ll announce locations at each meal.
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Tara Room
ARS Final Songwriting Session #3
With Alan Roy Scott
About Your Final ARS Session
This will be the final group collaboration and co-writing exercises culminating with a fun songwriting free for all at the end under the banner of “TopTune” (groups are selected and given a title and 17 minutes to write a song and then perform it for the other groups).
****This may sound a bit scary to some people, but trust us, it’s a TOTAL BLAST !!!!
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Tara Room
Closing Circle
Reflections & Honoring Our Contributions
This will be a time of reflections, expressions of gratitude and sharing what we’ve learned together during the 2018 Conscious Songwriting Retreat! Afterward, we’ll say our goodbyes and head home with new songs, new practices, new wisdom and new friends & collaborators!
*This agenda is subject to change at any time due to the truth of the moment.
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Register for the 2018 Conscious Songwriting Retreat to align, connect expand with like-hearted songwriters from around the country!
