Guild
art + faith + community
The Grünewald Guild is an arts education nonprofit retreat center in Leavenworth, WA. Through workshops and classes, they facilitate exploration of the intersection between art and faith. I have served as summer faculty teaching writing workshops since 2015.
2015-2016
Writing as a spiritual practice
2017
Writing and the Art of Paying Attention
2018-2019
The Medium of Memory
 Grunewald Guild |
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 Matins in the Centrum |
 Library Writing Studio |
 This Too is Prayer: Poetry Workshop |
 Writing Prompts in Working Notebook |
 Writing in Nature |
 Workbook: This Too Is Prayer |
 Gathering at the Finestere |
 Celtic Triple Spiral Labyrinth |
 Workbook: The Medium of Memory |
 Finistere |
 Notebook |
 Brittany Deininger on Zoom Workshop |
What Past Students Are Saying:
“I would take any writing class Brittany ever offers.
Her preparation and her presence were top rate.”
"I feel like I have a year's worth of work I could do with all that she provided.”
“Brittany’s instruction was gentle but challenging. She gave many opportunities to modify, choose a different option or bow out of writing prompts. She provided a treasure resource in the booklet she created for the course. The booklet will continue to be a resource I return to.”
“Brittany's prompts were spacious and thoughtful,
and her vulnerability in leadership was such a gift.”
“Brittany handled delicate feelings sensitively. She really walked those of us with little experience through the poetry writing aspect very well. I loved the course.”
“Brittany did a phenomenal job of integrating art, faith, and community. Her workbook speaks for itself - but then she was also able to find the connections as we brought our own work to the studio. And - she helped us do that kind of exploration on our own, as well.”
"Brittany is AMAZING.
The thoroughness and rigor partnered with such grace and attentiveness."
- writing workshop participant
Featured Work
Check out what I am up to and read some of my words out in the world.
ON BEING
with Krista Tippett
*Nominated for Best of the Net from EcoTheo Review
Intersections
Blog for The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
LIT Magazine
Poem for Issue 6, Page 6
Poem for Issue 5, Page 4 | Editor's Choice Award
Creative Nonfiction for Issue 5, Page 12
At The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
The Allender Center
At The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
Poem for the season of Advent
Post Defiance
Blog By Tacoma For Tacoma
Poem written for a benefit concert for a Habitat for Humanity build in Guatemala
Grunewald Guild
Traveling Art Exhibit
Poem written for a the traveling art show based on the theme of Jubilee: celebrating rest, renewal, and relationships.
Shabbat
We sense when the end is coming
the fingered notes slow, the violinist
looks up as if from a trance and signals
to the others with the eyes, the body,
her very breath
and then it happens. Resolved,
the notations end. The musicians hover,
unmoved statues, bows poised
over the open strings. The audience breathes
collectively. Nothing is played. No vibration
struck. No one claps.
It is part of the silent code
of the theater, the way each piece
ends, as ritual as the open A440.
We all wait while the musicians
enact the old poetry of Genesis
and play the seventh day.
After the journey of creation
comes the listening
to what has been. The silent
rest with no tinge of the void.
Brittany Deininger