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22 - 28 September, 2025
26 September
  • Travelling Light: Words To Lighten The Load Along The Road

    Teacher: Dorrian Haarhoff
    Cost: 2 days accommodation + R450 surcharge
    Dates:

    dorian haarhof 2019Oh, tranquility
    Penetrating the very rock,
    A cicada’s voice. (Basho)

    Writing and Mindfulness are close travelling companions, walking ancient paths. As they step through the natural world of wonders, they communicate sometime is silence, sometimes in words. They offer healing of body, mind and spirit. Come and practise how to release stress onto the page or screen amid the natural spendours of the BRC hills.

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    Dorian Haarhoff (1944 or was it 1494?) writer, story-teller, mentor. For 30 years the BRC has enriched his life and practice. Passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination, he believes in the power of stories to spread loving kindness. To bring healing. To guide us into the here and now. To build our belonging. A former Professor of English (Namibia) Dorian’s retreats are based on his workbook, The Writer’s Voice. His poetry appears in Quiet Food and The Cake the Buddha Ate. When or if he grows up, he’d like to be Poet Dorieate of his spiritual home - the BRC.

     
27 September
  • Travelling Light: Words To Lighten The Load Along The Road

    Teacher: Dorrian Haarhoff
    Cost: 2 days accommodation + R450 surcharge
    Dates:

    dorian haarhof 2019Oh, tranquility
    Penetrating the very rock,
    A cicada’s voice. (Basho)

    Writing and Mindfulness are close travelling companions, walking ancient paths. As they step through the natural world of wonders, they communicate sometime is silence, sometimes in words. They offer healing of body, mind and spirit. Come and practise how to release stress onto the page or screen amid the natural spendours of the BRC hills.

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    Dorian Haarhoff (1944 or was it 1494?) writer, story-teller, mentor. For 30 years the BRC has enriched his life and practice. Passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination, he believes in the power of stories to spread loving kindness. To bring healing. To guide us into the here and now. To build our belonging. A former Professor of English (Namibia) Dorian’s retreats are based on his workbook, The Writer’s Voice. His poetry appears in Quiet Food and The Cake the Buddha Ate. When or if he grows up, he’d like to be Poet Dorieate of his spiritual home - the BRC.

     
28 September
  • Travelling Light: Words To Lighten The Load Along The Road

    Teacher: Dorrian Haarhoff
    Cost: 2 days accommodation + R450 surcharge
    Dates:

    dorian haarhof 2019Oh, tranquility
    Penetrating the very rock,
    A cicada’s voice. (Basho)

    Writing and Mindfulness are close travelling companions, walking ancient paths. As they step through the natural world of wonders, they communicate sometime is silence, sometimes in words. They offer healing of body, mind and spirit. Come and practise how to release stress onto the page or screen amid the natural spendours of the BRC hills.

    View teacher details
    Dorian Haarhoff (1944 or was it 1494?) writer, story-teller, mentor. For 30 years the BRC has enriched his life and practice. Passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination, he believes in the power of stories to spread loving kindness. To bring healing. To guide us into the here and now. To build our belonging. A former Professor of English (Namibia) Dorian’s retreats are based on his workbook, The Writer’s Voice. His poetry appears in Quiet Food and The Cake the Buddha Ate. When or if he grows up, he’d like to be Poet Dorieate of his spiritual home - the BRC.

     
  • Writing In The Twilight: Leave A gift, Leave A Legacy

    Teacher: Dorrian Haarhoff
    Cost: 2 days accommodation + R400 surcharge
    Dates:

    dorian haarhof 2019The temple bell stops
    but the sound keeps on coming
    out of the flowers (Basho)

    Cultivating the world within, as we age can be a source of blessing to us and others. Come and practise how to turn ageing into sage-ing though the silence and sounds of words. Share the richness of your story down the line to generations living and yet unborn.

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    Dorian Haarhoff (1944 or was it 1494?) writer, story-teller, mentor. For 30 years the BRC has enriched his life and practice. Passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination, he believes in the power of stories to spread loving kindness. To bring healing. To guide us into the here and now. To build our belonging. A former Professor of English (Namibia) Dorian’s retreats are based on his workbook, The Writer’s Voice. His poetry appears in Quiet Food and The Cake the Buddha Ate. When or if he grows up, he’d like to be Poet Dorieate of his spiritual home - the BRC.