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Since 1981, I have been passionately committed to helping people discover their healing poet, the one that lives and breathes within each of us. I teach, consult, write and mentor individuals, professional groups and organizations across the globe.
It doesn't matter if you have never written poetry or have written for a long time. If you are new to poetry or just want to deepen your writing practice, this work can support and inspire you.
In early 2005, I formed The Institute for Poetic Medicine, the next manifestation of my life's mission and purpose. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to healing body, mind and spirit through the creative and therapeutic process of hearing and writing poetry.
Our vision is to awaken this creative and healing voice in the human spirit. We are collectively dedicated to nurture and strengthen the human capacity to connect to Self, Other, Community, the Natural World and the Divine.
On behalf of myself and my Board of Directors, I invite you to experience The Institute for Poetic Medicine:
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Listen to presences inside poems.
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
And never leave the premises.
--Jellaludin Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks & John Moyne |
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You must give birth to your images, they are
the future waiting to be born.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
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Poems stir us, encourage us to wake, breathe deeply and experience life! Poems are alive. They hold energy. You can discover this life and energy in your words, in the cadence of your voice, and the feeling inside your body upon reading a poem. There are indeed hints inside of poems that become available to you as you write and hear them.
What poems offer relates not only to the present moment, but may come as messengers from the past and clues important for your future messages for you and for humanity. Poetry joins the personal with the universal.
Writing allows us to discover how vulnerabilities and strengths can co-exist, even thrive together. Poems can reveal deep insight and compassion. They can give voice to what is raw and wounded in your life and that honesty, creatively expressed and explored, can bolster and guide you through rough times. Your writing can transform you at profound levels.
"What do I want to say besides thank you? When I set out for the workshop, I had no idea I would be so completely changed or become so completely myself again because of poetry and you." --Shannon Klassel, New York, New York
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The Nature of Poetry: Exploring the Beautyway
Canyon de Chelly in
Northern Arizona
The 9th Camping, Hiking, and Poem-Making Experience with John Fox, Lisa DeVuono & Tad Gielow, hosted by Diné friends Jon and Lupita McClanahan
PBS National Broadcast of HEALING WORDS: POETRY & MEDICINE With John Fox at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida - This July, 2008!
To learn about this breakthrough film, view a trailer and how you can locate your local PBS affiliate to request a good time slot for airing... Click Here
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