Flotsam & Flow: A Creative Day for Women in Semiahmoo
Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026
Location: Semiahmoo Resort
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Price includes $25 gift card to Seaview Café for lunch, drinks & light snacks
Cost: $163.50 (includes WA tax)
Space is Limited – sign up today!
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Join us for a day of creative exploration on the shores of the Salish Sea. Through movement, improv, and hands-on artmaking, we’ll create space for you to discover what emerges when you let go of “doing it right” and embrace the process itself.
What We’ll Do: Spend the day dancing, playing with improv exercises, creating contemplative collages, and connecting with our coastal landscape. Each activity is designed to help you practice being fully yourself in a group setting—releasing self-judgment and the old “am I doing this correctly?” mindset that can hold us back.
The Heart of This Creative Day: Like boats traveling together on the ocean, we’re each on our own unique journey while held by the same waters. This day is about honoring both—your individual creative voice AND the power of community. We practice “yes, and” improvisation principles, lean into curiosity over perfection, and build the courage to try something new alongside other women.
What This Is (and Isn’t): This is a creative exploration retreat, not therapy. While creativity can bring up emotions and insights, we are facilitators and artists, not therapists. Our goal is to use creative expression as a way to understand ourselves more deeply and see how we’re connected to the larger community around us.
Come as you are. Leave with a sense of sea glass—something beautiful, shaped by the journey.
Instructors:
Rebecca Beardsall
Rebecca Beardsall uses literature as a tool for transformation. As the author of The Unfurling Frond and My Place in the Spiral and co-editor of three books including Philadelphia Reflections: Stories from the Delaware to the Schuylkill, she knows the power of narrative to illuminate our inner landscapes. Through Lit Illuminated, Rebecca guides seekers, writers, and readers in deep engagement with story—uncovering the symbolic architecture of texts and their connection to our own journeys. She holds an MA from Lehigh University and an MFA from Western Washington University.
Christine Cricchio
Christine is thrilled to be teaching improvisational theater once again!Dana Carr
Dana believes in the power of dance to transform individuals and communities for the better. As a dance facilitator and silent disco host, she provides dancers of all shapes, sizes, colors, genders, sexual identities, ages and abilities with the opportunity to practice radical non-judgement, brave authenticity, and joyful togetherness. She has led countless group dance experiences, guiding and inspiring participants to embody courage, curiosity, connection, and creativity.Athena Roth
Athena (she/her/hers) has an extensive background in higher education administration, youth programming, communications, marketing, event planning, project management, and systems workflow. These experiences have helped her to foster new community, regional, and global relationships, and to further her contributions to diverse and inclusive workplaces. At Western Washington University and earlier, she was responsible for developing and administering programs that connected a wide range of stakeholders, including international groups, youths, and elders, along with student staff and educators-in-training.
Athena hails from upstate New York, and now makes her home in Bellingham. She holds a degree in theatre from SUNY Potsdam, and a degree in merchandising from the New York Fashion Institute. The creative arts have been a lifelong passion, including teaching dance for a school in Yellowstone National Park, and touring in a mother/daughter cabaret show. She also enjoys quilting, bookbinding, and outdoor adventures with her husband and son. Athena is excited to be getting her Masters at Western Washington University.