YOUR RETREAT LEADERS
CATHLEEN O'CONNOR
Cathleen O'Connor, PhD is an author, developmental editor, book designer and coach who loves helping other writers get their words out in the world. Her lifelong interest in metaphysics led her to dream and tarot work and to her book, The Law of Attraction Dream Dictionary and being quoted on the Huffington Post as a dream analyst. She loves working with fables as her book High Heels on the Hamster Wheel: A Fable for the Modern Woman shows. Co-Author of two anthologies: 365 Days of Angel Prayers and The Collection: Flash Fiction for Flash Memory, she is now pitching her first romantic suspense novel. Her articles have appeared in Canada's ALIVE magazine and Australia's The Sphere. As a writer who writes in all genres, she has offered workshops in creativity, the narrative arc, and creating a successful anthology for the International Women's Writing Guild and local women's writing groups in the Northeast. She writes a weekly inspirational column to her newsletter audience about issues on her mind. Find her column at cathleenoconnor.substack.com
PAULA CHAFFEE SCARDAMALIA
Paula Chaffee Scardamalia is a book coach, dream and tarot intuitive and the author of
Enchanting Creativity: How Fairy Tales, Dreams, Rituals & Journaling Can Awaken Your
Creative Self. She also wrote the award-winning Weaving a Woman’s Life: Spiritual Lessons
from the Loom, as well as Tarot for the Fiction Writer, and her novels, In the Land of the
Vultures, and her forthcoming The Tempting Voice. For more than 20 years, Paula has presented workshops across the country for national and regional Romance Writers of America and other writing groups’ events, both online and in person. She publishes Divine Muse-ings, a weekly e-newsletter on writing, creativity, myths, fairy tales, dreams, and tarot. She lives with her husband in the foothills of the Catskills in an 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse, constantly in need of TLC.
