Deep Travel Workshops

Deep Travel Workshops If we are lucky, our expectations are scrambled. We are reminded that there are larger forces at play. DeepTravel demands even more. Our tools? What did it mean?

"The passage of the mythological hero may be overground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward—into the depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost powers are revivified …"
—-Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

In its simplest form, travel is physical movement from one place to another: a flight from Seattle to South Africa, the long drive through Nebraska, or came

l trek across the Sahara. Along the way we encounter new sights and smells, sounds and sensations: the taste of curry, the notes of a sitar, snow-peaked Andes, fresh mint mingling with dyed leather in the souks of Marrakech. Most travelogues stay safely on the surface, tracking like mile markers our horizontal movement through space. When infused with carefully collected details and vivid action, these stories can transport the reader. It asks us not just to recount what we saw, but to elicit that sensation we often have on return from our journeys that we are changed. Deep Travel is a three-session workshop that invites you to write about your vertical travels--the downward venture into the deepest strata of your experience and psyche. Like prospectors searching for a vein, we’ll dig through layers, starting with surface impressions and tracing them to their primal sources. Sharpened intuitive skills, an openness to risk, and creative revisioning techniques that pinpoint focus. Where a travelogue only requires us to write “Last summer I went to the Eiffel tower,” Deep Travel asks Why did I want to go there? Perhaps my expectations got shattered the moment I was ripped off by a con-artist who handed me a rose. Who was this rose seller? What is his story? Where does my romantic fantasy of Paris come from, and how does it collide with his reality? Deep Travel draws us into the molten core of our experience. Join award-winning writers Christina Ammon and Erin Byrne as we forge connections between our personal journeys—and the political, cultural, and mythical contexts in which they unfold—and the essence of our own selves.

A Deep Travel favorite!
05/22/2026

A Deep Travel favorite!

Coming June 9th to a bookstore near you! Or you can pre-order now! Here’s a link to my bookshop… but the collection is available from all of the usual places, including your favorite indie bookshop — and pre-orders are incredibly helpful!

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-best-women-s-travel-writing-volume-13-true-stories-from-around-the-world-lavinia-spalding/745433c24c85e63e?ean=9781609522179&next=t&aid=110103&listref=books-written-and-or-edited-by-lavinia-spalding

04/22/2026

Some serious Deep Travel magic happened last time we were in Fez!

Going for more March 15-30th, 2027.

Join us for this roadtrip of a lifetime!

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Upcoming Deep Travel Adventures:November 11-18th, 2026 Deep Travel Mexico: The Art of Adventure with Lavinia Spalding & ...
04/20/2026

Upcoming Deep Travel Adventures:

November 11-18th, 2026
Deep Travel Mexico:
The Art of Adventure with Lavinia Spalding & Colette Hannahan

March 15-30, 2027
Deep Travel Morocco:
the Art of Adventure with Rosie Taylor of the Miners Bazaar

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Deep Travel Workshops + The Miners Bazaar = Morocco 2027!Looking forward to this creative adventure—the most extensive M...
04/14/2026

Deep Travel Workshops + The Miners Bazaar = Morocco 2027!

Looking forward to this creative adventure—the most extensive Morocco tour yet!

Details coming soon…

An Afternoon in Morocco The Miners' BazaarApril 18th, 4:00-6:00 pmwith Anna Elkins & Christina Ammon, Alix George & Laur...
04/13/2026

An Afternoon in Morocco
The Miners' Bazaar
April 18th, 4:00-6:00 pm
with Anna Elkins & Christina Ammon, Alix George & Laura Hughes.

Celebrate the release of Anna's new book When We Become Trees .

She will be reading a selection of Morocco-themed poems and I will read a selection from Deep Travel's anthology. We will also have Laura Hughes and Jacksonville's own Alix George reading a piece inspired by our November trip to Morocco.

We will also tell you about our upcoming tour there in March 2027. Perhaps you'd like to join the adventure!

After the readings, artist-owner Rosie Taylor will offer a Morocco-inspired print-making craft with pre-carved lino block for $10.

You can also purchase one of her signature Giggle-Water beverages: she’ll be creating a special orange-mint shrub just for the occasion. She also has a splendid menu of other food & drink to try.

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