DWELLING WORKSHOPS

Dwelling Workshops are mindful explorations to experience DWELLING. The workshops invite you to explore the dialogue between your inner Home and how it relates to the physical home you live in.

Ultimately, DWELLING can only be learned through doing. Bill offers workshops that can help you experience DWELLING, to understand your relationship to your home and identify ways to engage more fully.

Duration of the workshop depends on participant’s intentions — how deeply you want to go into this work. As with all workshops, the real work is what you do after a workshop. Bill is available to participants long after a workshop. Want to know more about Bill Hutchins?

Bill offers two workshops:

Dwell to Build
Dwell to Live

If you would like to host a workshop, talk or gathering, anywhere in the world get in touch with Bill. If you are a healer or a teacher doing parallel work and would like to team together, get in touch.

DWELL TO BUILD

WORKSHOP

Dwell in your interior Home - your still, peaceful center - in the ways you live in and create your physical home. This workshop offers ways to Dwell as you adjust your home and live in your home.

This workshop is for you if you are looking to renovate, add onto or build a new home. Whether you're working with Bill or another architect, this workshop will allow you to explore what you really need and want, to create a home that is finely tuned to your aspirations and lifestyle.

Write to bill@dwellingtomakehome.com if you are interested in attending the upcoming workshop or fill out the form below.

More about Dwell to Build

DWELL TO LIVE

WORKSHOP

This workshop provides simple ways to deepen your living in your home; provide you with a fuller sense of peace and wholeness; provide place for intimacy; and open your connection to the natural world around you.

This workshop will change your perception of your home and identify changes you can make to strengthen your relationship to it.

New Dwell to Live workshop scheduled for April 13. Please get in touch with Bill if you would like to attend the workshop by writing to bill@dwellingtomakehome.com or click on the button for more info and to fill out the form.

More about Dwell to Live

I was buying a house and went to Bill's workshop. The art part was scary, but it turned out to be transformative. Just one example - in one exercise, Bill asked us to draw our most nurturing childhood memories. I drew a blank worrying about the drawing part. Bill encouraged me to quiet my mind and let my feelings come (his calming presence and the poems really helped here).

I instinctively drew an orange fire, which reminded me of when I was around six and tending the fire on which my grandmother cooked (she had a wood burning stove). Around the fire, I drew other feelings I wanted to feel in my home. Staring at the orange fire, I realized that cooking is central to what I wanted in a nurturing home for my family. Before this, I have always considered cooking "housework" best avoided. Now I enjoy cooking much more and recently bought a townhouse with a more substantial kitchen.

JIAN BIN GAO

I began the workshop feeling a lot of fear and finished the day knowing great things are in store for me. Bill's gentle presence and inquiry during the workshop both encouraged me to dive deeper into myself and offered me the container to do so. I have been on a journey of self-discovery for many years, sometimes in extreme fashion, and I am gratefully surprised to have rediscovered a part of myself so sweetly and simply in the process Bill offers. I recommend this for anyone seeking to know themselves more deeply including who they are and what they want to be and create in their lives.

JENNY LEWIS

The poetics and the attempt to get to people's underlying assumptions and life and how they live; it is powerful and potentially game-changing.

For architecture, the questions of what do we need to feel joy and contribute to the planet seem most critical. I believe Bill challenges architects to ask very difficult questions of themselves in this book.

WILLIAM UPDIKE

DWELL TO BUILD WORKSHOP

ONE DAY

At your home or Holly House (my home), as part of a group.

A SERIES OF MEDITATIVE/CREATIVE EXERCISES, THAT PROGRESSIVELY BECOME MORE TANGIBLE

The workshop begins by exploring your inner knowing of that which nurtures you.

The workshop has a simple format, centered on being guided through a series of creative/meditative explorations.

Take in a poetic image, sit with it, wait for a response and express that response through drawing or modeling clay. Don't worry, this is not supposed to be art - no one will be judged upon their ability to create art. It is a form of expression to be shared with the rest of the group for insights from group participants.

You will be encouraged to explore your life-giving impulses -
what makes you thrive, what makes you connect to a physical space, and how your home can embody these insights.

We then discuss ways of building with an ecological consciousness, followed by exploring ways to form relationship with your land. As our home is a vessel to unite us with our deepest self and our place, the workshop concludes with sculpting and drawing your expanded home.

COST
$120, which includes a healthy, vegetarian lunch, and snacks/drinks.

The workshop is intense as it asks you to explore and unearth your aspirations of home.

You are welcome to dwell in the exercises at your own pace.

With Bill's gentle guidance and thought-provoking questions, insights will emerge and you will finish the workshop with a greater understanding of the components you need for a nurturing home that you can live and grow into.

We have no set dates yet for this workshop. If you are interested in attending and would like more information, please fill out the form below or get in touch with bill@dwellingtomakehome.com.

DWELL TO LIVE WORKSHOP

ONE DAY

At your home or Holly House (my home), as part of a small group.

FOUR DAYS

Four days, four people or four couples, four homes, during the four seasons.

FOR ARCHITECTS

Learn new ways to get to know your clients and build on your practice.

EXPLORE HOME AS AN INTERNAL IMAGE

Your knowing of peace and wholeness - and how you can live into your Home in the ways you live in your physical home.

A SERIES OF MEDITATIVE/CREATIVE EXERCISES

The workshop has a simple format, centered on being guided through a series of creative/meditative explorations.

Take in a poetic image, sit with it, wait for a response and express that response through drawing or modeling clay. Don't worry, this is not supposed to be art - no one will be judged upon their ability to create art. It is a form of expression to be shared with the rest of the group for insights from group participants.

You will be encouraged to explore your life-giving impulses -

what makes you thrive
what makes you connect to a physical space, and
how your home can embody these insights.

An intense and fun workshop! Working indoors and outdoors, with various breaks and an invitation to take the day at your own pace.

COST

$120 - one-day and architect workshop.

$400 - four-day workshop.

Prices include a healthy, vegetarian lunch, and snacks/drinks.

New workshop scheduled for April 13. Please fill out the form below or get in touch with bill@dwellingtomakehome.com.

DWELLING WORKSHOPS

Dwelling Workshops are mindful explorations to experience DWELLING. The workshops invite you to explore the dialogue between your inner Home and how it relates to the physical home you live in.

DWELL TO BUILD WORKSHOP

DWELL TO LIVE

WORKSHOP

JIAN BIN GAO

JENNY LEWIS

WILLIAM UPDIKE

DWELL TO BUILD WORKSHOP

ONE DAY

A SERIES OF MEDITATIVE/CREATIVE EXERCISES, THAT PROGRESSIVELY BECOME MORE TANGIBLE

DWELL TO LIVE WORKSHOP

ONE DAY

FOUR DAYS

FOR ARCHITECTS

EXPLORE HOME AS AN INTERNAL IMAGE

A SERIES OF MEDITATIVE/CREATIVE EXERCISES

COST

Start exploring the relationship between your inner and outer Home.

DWELL TO BUILD

WORKSHOP