Week-Long Immersion for continuing painters
Windrise Retreat Center, Metamora, Michigan

October 6 – 13 2005 (7 nights)

$1175 + $45 studio fee. Deposit $350.

Lodging and meals are included, as are all materials and supplies. Based on double occupancy. Some single rooms and camping spots are available.
Group transportation can be arranged.

We’re excited to introduce a new program for continuing participants who want to deepen the personal inquiry begun in prior workshops. The week-long Immersion is an extended painting process held within a supportive community of others similarly committed to the creative arts process. This year’s Immersion will be held at the beautiful Windrise Center in Metamora Michigan, a wonderfully secluded property where you’ll enjoy a total respite from day-to-day distractions, allowing you to focus wholeheartedly on your own exploration. The site is a 140 acre farm bordered by the Flint River, laced with hiking trails through forests, among hills, and open meadow and pasture lands. Exquisite meals and accommodations are provided in this idyllic setting less than an hour's drive from Detroit.

Real change paradoxically begins by being completely where you are. This week-long Immersion provides a safe container in which to fully inhabit your experience — by meeting the edge of your own frontier, by allowing the condition of not-knowing without prematurely jumping on quick solutions, by finding the courage to release self-limiting attitudes and by discovering true completions and new beginnings.

As an Immersion participant, you’ll receive caring personal attention that builds upon your previous relationship with the Painting Experience. As with all our workshops, Stewart Cubley and his staff will be there as guides to personally work with you. Additionally, a photographic record of your process will be taken in order to have the history of your exploration available in follow-up sessions and subsequent workshops. A special guidebook, “Art as a Way of Being,” written by Stewart is provided as a source of inspirational quotes, discussions and questions to be used on your journey. The Immersion includes one private session with Stewart during the workshop and two follow-up sessions by phone, during which you will have the opportunity to continue the inquiry begun during the workshop.
We will contact you prior to the Immersion to identify the concerns and desires that you’ll bring to the experience so that we can work very closely with you at the workshop. We’ll also assist you in arranging all details concerning travel and location.
 
Prerequisite: One Painting Experience Workshop
 
An Immersion Experience qualifies for 32 hours CE credit


Visit Windrise!




Air Travel

Flying into Flint (FNT):
It's easiest to fly into Flint, Michigan (Bishop International Airport - FNT), especially if coming from the East Coast. Shuttle service will be arranged to Windrise, which is about 30 minutes away. If we have a minimum of three people, the fee is only $20 one way, and we can also arrange a return trip. You are also free to rent a car, if you'd rather do that. See alternatives for flying into Detroit (DTW) below).

Timing:
The arranged shuttles (International Shuttle 810-691-6396) leave the airport Thursday October 6th at 2 pm and 5 pm. The shuttle will pick up a group at Windrise at 2 PM on Thursday October 13th to get you back to the airport by 2:30 - 2:45. If you arrive earlier or later and want to come straight to Windrise, you may call:

International Shuttle 810-691-6396
Corporate Coach 810-244-5460
JCN Limousine Dispatch: 810-229-2659 Mobile: 810-908-0056
Hey! Taxi 810-629-7080

Flying into Detroit (DTW):
Metro Cars (luxury sedans) 800-456-1701 can be found at curbside for a $138 fee to Metamora (Windrise) up to 4 people (comes to $34.50 each one way if there are 4). They will also pick you up for the return. The drive from DTW is through Detroit and can be slow. When flying from the West Coast, it may not be convenient to get to the Flint airport. Car pooling is another possibility. Please let us know if you'd like to connect with another participant for renting a car in Detroit.

DIRECTIONS TO WINDRISE CENTER
PHONE: (810) 678-3290


Windrise Retreat Center is located in Metamora, Michigan, about 50 miles North of Detroit; 25 miles Southeast of Flint; and 85 miles Northeast of Ann Arbor.

For people arriving in the Detroit Airport
A van pooling arrangement may be made.

From the South/Detroit Area: Take I-75 North to Exit 81 which is Lapeer Road or M-24. The freeway splits there, with I-75 veering to the right and Lapeer Road or M-24 veering to the left. Follow M-24 as it veers to the left. Take M-24 for 18 miles to Dryden Road. There will be a traffic light with a McDonalds and a Marathon Gas Station on your right. Turn right (East) onto Dryden. Then, check your odometer and travel 4.7 miles to Thornville Road. (PLEASE, THERE ARE NO MAJOR LANDMARKS TO MARK THORNVILLE ROAD, SO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO YOUR ODOMETER!) You will see two beige houses and a small "Welcome to Dryden" sign on your right - at Thornville Road. Turn left onto Thornville. Again, check your odometer and travel 0.7 miles until you see the Windrise sign on your left. Turn left into the farm and look for the first driveway on the right. Turn right into that drive. The address on the mailbox is #3630.

From the West and North: I-69 East to Lapeer Road (M-24) south to Dryden east to Thornville Road, then follow the directions written above.

Airports:

Detroit Metro Airport - Romulus
Total Estimated Time:1 hour, 33 minutes; Total Distance: 61.66 miles

Detroit City Airport - Detroit
   Total Distance: 56.69 miles; Total Estimated Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes

Bishop International Airport - Flint
Total Distance: 34.24 miles; Total Estimated Time: 44 minutes     

For out of state driving directions try
 mapquest.com

Windrise address to map to is:
3630 Thornville Rd
Metamora, MI
48455