Events

Events of Robert McDowell

Below are upcoming events, poetry readings, and presentations featuring Robert McDowell. Recent past events are also included for your reference.

Upcoming Events

September 13, 2014, 9:00 a.m. (PST)

Youth Scholars of International Bridges to Justice (IBJ)

64 Rue de Monthoux, CH-1201 | Geneva, Switzerland

Telephone: +41 22 731 2441

Robert McDowell will lead a one-hour tele-workshop for the Youth Scholars of International Bridges to Justice (IBJ). The workshop will help promote IBJ’s mission of implementing due process rights and ending torture universally by 2024. The benefits of community outreach will also be discussed.

September 26, 27, and 28, 2014

Care for the Caregiver Retreat (for Professional & In-Home Caregivers)

Presented by the Anam Cara Center

Peace House | 543 N. Mountain Ave. | Ashland, OR 97520

To register: Contact Elizabeth Hallett at 541.292.2106 or elizabeth@anamcaracenter

Robert McDowell will co-facilitate this workshop with Elizabeth V. Hallett, senior care specialist and director of the Anam Cara Center, and Sherry Zysk, PhD, a psychologist, coach, and natural healer. Click here to view program details.

October 3, 2014

Unwavering Strength

Robert McDowell attends author launch of Unwavering Strength, Toronto, Canada.

December 12, 2014

United Nations

Dr. Rama Mani and Robert McDowell perform at the United Nations in New York, New York.

Past Events

January 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2014 | February 3 & 10, 2014

Emily Dickinson: Divine Feminine Prophet

Robert McDowell’s online workshop.

March 2, 2014

Actualization of Men and Women in the New Paradigm

Robert McDowell speaks at the Golden Gate Center for Spiritual Living in Marin County, California on Actualization of Men and Women in the New Paradigm. Workshop follows.

March 5, 2014

KPFA Interview

Robert McDowell interviewed by Jack Foley on KPFA, Berkeley, California.

March 6, 2014

Moe’s Books Reading

Robert McDowell and Terri Glass read poetry at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California.

March 20, 2014

From History to Our Story: Transcending the Gender Paradigm from Competition to Collaboration

Dr. Rama Mani and Robert McDowell perform together at the United Nations Library in Geneva, Switzerland. Panel discussion follows with Ambassador Tania Dussey-Cavassini, Chair; Ruth Hahn-Weinert, Officer-in-Charge, UNOG Library; Karen Tse, Founder and President of International Bridges of Justice; Yann Borgstedt, Founder and President of Womanity Foundation; and Karin Heisecke, Senior Project Manager, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, The World Future Council.

May 1, 8, & 15, 2014

The Voice Celestial

Robert McDowell workshop on The Voice Celestial, an epic poem by Ernest and Fenwicke Holmes, Center for Spiritual Living, Covina, California.

May 2, 2014

Beyond Baroque

Robert McDowell reads at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.

May 3, 2014

Poetry As Spiritual Practice Workshop

Poetry As Spiritual Practice, a workshop led by Robert McDowell at Beyond Baroque, Venice, California.

May 4, 2014

The Magic of Poetry and Story

Robert McDowell speaks at Sunday Morning Gatherings of Creative Community, Venice, California.

May 7, 2014

Mt. San Antonio College Reading

Robert McDowell reading at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California.

June 29, 2014

Freedom As Spiritual Ideal

Robert McDowell speaks at the Spokane Center for Spiritual Living in Spokane, Washington. Workshop follows lunch.

June 11, 18, & 25, 2014 | July 2 & 9, 2014

Flash Writing

Robert McDowell’s online workshop.

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—Claudia Previn Stazny

“I just finished listening to your teleclass, and I was deeply moved by your talk. Thank you so much for partnering with us. Your work is a blessing to the world.”

—Joan Schaefer, RN, BSN

“Robert McDowell is the very spirit of poetry and sumptuous prose. He is a wordsmith and a soul crafter of the highest order and his talks and seminars are veritable temples of magic. If ever he is in your community for a talk or workshop, go!”

—Dr. Jean Houston

“Bless you, Robert. I have enjoyed your verse, the Reaper Essays, and find your spiritual practice model so acute and helpful. Despite Auden’s injunction, art can make things happen. Getting into the poesis mindset is one of the healthiest practices a human can do.”

—Michael Graber

“Robert McDowell’s online workshop on Emily Dickinson was a thrilling and profound experience. He avoided all superficialities and cut straight and deep to the chase with Dickinson’s poems, letters, his own concise and brilliant erudition, and input from many relevant figures.… A beautifully planned, shaped, and conducted learning experience.”

—Alane Rollings

“I love the way you put words together, and will indeed, look forward to more of your inspiration, through readings and future workshops. You are so talented, and as I see it, reaching out, is one of your greatest qualities.”

—Valerie Schmidt

“A well-guided trip opens new vistas, which you did for me. The session with you gave me perspectives and approaches and provided a rhythm to unknown potentials and made them accessible.”

—Peter Hjersman

“I always remember how special it was to be in your class. I still feel the influence your class had on me—my worldview, my appreciation of others and their feelings and opinions.… Thank you for what you did for me then and for what you do now for the people you work with—your talent and teaching were a gift to me.”

—Laura Ballard

“Poetry exposes me to a different way of experiencing the world. When I read Poetry as Spiritual Practice, I instantly translated the poems into pictures. I can see fields of grain or rain in Autumn. It is fascinating to see all the patterns and rhymes that can be woven into language.”

—Dr. Temple Grandin

“Robert McDowell prepared an exceptionally interesting class on Emily Dickinson: The Divine Feminine Prophet.… Robert is a fine teacher, poet, and philosopher who has put together a program that offered, to borrow a line from Emily Dickinson: ‘that sublimer lesson, a faith in things unseen, and in a life again, nobler, and much more blessed.’”

—Betty Deitz

“My heart is so very full after having the blessed opportunity of attending your teleseminar this evening. How comforting to know that men of your amplitude and sensitivity are cognizant and brimming with the magical means to help pave the way for a more intimate and authentic sacred connection.”

—Sylvia Cohen

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