INSCAPE
Imagining, Dreaming, Creating
June 22-28, 2025
St. Martins Country Inn
St. Martins, NB
Twelve persons maximum
Facilitators
David Maginley, BA, M.Div., CSCP (therapist, author, teacher, photographer)
Freeman Patterson, C.M., O.N.B., M.Div (photographer, author, teacher, gardener)
Special Guests
Margery Nea (photographer, workshop leader in dream work and spiritual direction)
TO REGISTER FOR THE 2025 WORKSHOP
We will take registrations on a first come/first served basis. Registrations are now open.
Step 1: Send your completed, signed application form by e-mail for the 2025 workshop. Deposit required.
Send your completed, signed application form by e-mail or post to:
Shamper’s Cove Limited
3487 Route 845
Long Reach, NB, Canada E5S 1X4
e-mail freemanpatterson2@gmail.com
Phone 506-763-2189
Step 2: The balance of your workshop fees must be paid six weeks before your workshop begins to ensure your place is held.
DAVID MAGINLEY, M.Div, CSCP is a psychospiritual counsellor in private practice after 25 years with the cancer, palliative and intensive units at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey and Early Exits: Spirituality, Mortality and Meaning in an Age of Medical Assistance in Dying. He is also a four-time cancer survivor and near-death experiencer. This led him to explore meditation, illness and transformation, and the nature of consciousness. David has lectured throughout Canada, conducting workshops with healthcare staff and the public on spirituality, cancer, grief, and aspects of emergent and integrative spirituality. He is a Lutheran minister and board member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, contributing to research on patient experiences at the end of life. David holds a B.A. in philosophy and an M.Div. from the University of Saskatchewan. He is passionate about photography and brings a wealth of life experience to his unique perspective.
FREEMAN PATTERSON, C.M., O.N.B., M.Div. of Shamper’s Bluff, New Brunswick, has made photographs for more than 60 years, taught visual design for more than 55 in Canada and many other countries, and authored 15 books. Freeman’s primary source of awe and wonder is Creation; he is equally at home in a Canadian forest or in the vast sand dunes of Namibia and equally at ease investigating the meanings of the symbols in his dreams or in his art. Freeman believes that the ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple, that they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, the source of materials and tools that enable us to express our responses to questions and feelings about ultimate things. Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.
MARGARET WOODSON NEA of Virginia is a photographer, teacher, and speaker whose photography has taken her to over 20 developing nations around the world. Her images of women, children, and the natural world have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Moved particularly by the eyes of children, she has authored two photographic books, CHILDREN: Gifts of the Spirit and CHILDREN: Eyes of the Soul. The focus of her Master’s Degree was “Art and the Spiritual.” A graduate of the Haden Institute of Spiritual Direction, she believes in Carl Jung’s philosophy that “dreams and photographs are messengers of the unconscious.” With her clients, she works with dreams and photographic images as portals to the sacred. For the past 25 years, she has been a member of a dream group that meets weekly. Knowing dreams to be a rich source of wisdom, they continue to attend dream conferences with teachers including Jeremy Taylor, Alan Jones, Jerry Wright, and Marion Woodman. Also, she has been on numerous pilgrimages. In Peru and India, she discovered the richness of ancient holy traditions. Through the thin places of Iona and Ireland, she found that, in the beliefs of Celtic spirituality, there is a sacredness in all of creation.
This workshop will be hosted by the St. Martins Country Inn in the village of St. Martins on the Bay of Fundy coast, east of Saint John and the Saint John airport and right at the beginning of the Fundy Trail.
St. Martins is approximately 38 kilometres east of Saint John (not St. John’s), New Brunswick airport (YSJ). Participants are responsible for their transportation to and from the workshop. You may wish to use a readily available taxi at the airport for the 25-minute drive.
The fee for the six-day/seven-night course includes meals and accommodation (Canadian funds). $3195 per person + HST (15%). If your dietary restrictions require the purchase of specialty items, an additional fee may be charged.
Participants should endeavour to arrive in time for introductions at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, followed by dinner, and depart the following Sunday morning.
Guests: Partners or friends of participants do not pay the workshop fee, and should not expect to attend regular presentations. The fee for meals and accommodations for the week for partners or friends will be $750. + HST (15%).
TO REGISTER FOR A 2025 WORKSHOP
We will take registrations on a first come/first served basis. Registrations are now open.
Step 1: Send your completed, signed application form by e-mail indicating your first and second choice of workshop weeks. We require a $400 deposit (Canadian funds) payable the first week of January. Our preferred method is etransfer but we do accept VISA or MasterCard if that is your preferred method. Please indicate on your application form if you will be paying by e-mail money transfer or credit card the first week of January.
Send your completed, signed application form by e-mail or post to:
Shamper’s Cove Limited
3491 Route 845
Long Reach, NB, Canada E5S 1X4
e-mail freemanpatterson23@gmail.com
Phone 506-763-2189
Step 2: The balance of your workshop fees must be paid six weeks before your workshop begins to ensure your place is held.
Cancellations: On cancellations up to six weeks prior to the beginning date of the workshop, we will refund your deposit less 50% for expenses. We will not refund on cancellations received six weeks or less prior to the beginning date of the workshop. We strongly suggest the purchase of cancellation insurance.
Please do not register for a workshop unless you are able to stay for the entire period as an early departure seriously disrupts the spirit and fellowship of the workshop.