Writers Retreat Bali 2025 'Shut Up and Write'

Bali

TBA, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia

Wendy Manzo and Andy Hamish Smith

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Wendy Manzo and Andrew Smith are both dedicated to releasing your creativity.Wendy Manzo has been writing and painting for more than two decades. She understands 'living with a creative mind' and has led groups of artists and writers through from beginners to publishing and exhibiting. Wendy has a mandate to release joy and freedom into your work, and is renown for guiding each student with individual care according to his/her passion and skill level. Along with her husband Andrew, the love of her life, Wendy enjoys discovering beauty within all types of people.Wendy is an abstract expressionist and a live speed-painter. She paints intuitively and spontaneously in live performance worship painting with perceptive, powerful and often prophetic images. In her 25+ year career, Wendy has painted and exhibited around the world, including New York, San Francisco, Florence, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Parliament House, Canberra. She is a featured artist on the Australian television program 'Colour In Your Life'.Wendy has authored'The Prophetic Artist', '40 Days hath November', 'Fragile as Sea Foam', 'How to Paint With God: Increase your Prophetic Art Skills';co-authored and illustrated'Brush Tales; Silent Stories';co-authored'88 Days: Road to Recovery from Trauma'; and edited'The Voice in the Paint'.She is also the author of blogs on ThePropheticArtist [.com] and WendyManzo [.com]. She holds a Bachelor Ministry, Bachelor Media and Communications, Grad Certificate Teaching, Master of Arts (Christian Studies) and Master of Arts in Visual Art (MAVA). She is currently pursuing her PhD in Prophetic Art.Andrew H. Smith - or Andy when he's less formal - has a wealth of experience in education, counselling, and leadership development spanning over four decades. He has worked with people of all ages from all walks of life. , and extensively in the music industry and fields of community services, health, education, social enterprise, case management, human resources and corporate business sectors. Andy brings the valuable element of security and support in an emotionally safe environment. His passion is to see people set free and live knowing who they are, what they want to do and how to do it.Specialising in self-awareness, confidence building and personal development, Andy provides many life-changing ‘ah-haa’ moments in our workshops. Andy understands the creative personality and spent 15 years in the music industry as a musician, band manager and music copyist for live television (Channel 9, 2, 10). Andy holds a Bachelor degree Social Science (Counseling), Grad Diploma HR Training, and is currently pursing Masters in Youth Mental Health. Andrew co-authored'88 Days: Road to Recovery from Trauma'.Andrew and Wendy enjoy travelling, living beside the sea, and finding joy in the tranquility of secluded, peaceful places. Together, they have three adult children presently living on three different continents.