Poetic Medicine:
The Healing Art of Poem-Making

Poetry comes from the continuous adventure of finding for yourself the opportunities that surface when with our own feelings you accept new ideas never before encountered. —William Stafford

What is Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making?

Our Poetic Medicine workshop provides a supportive and safe place to express yourself within the container of a poem – allowing the essential elements distilled by your writing to be felt, explored and integrated.  Poem making, when approached as a transformational process, and especially when shared with others, provides an opportunity for deep inner healing.

In this workshop, John will invite the fresh sensibility and playfulness we knew as children. It will honor your unique, adult voice that has ripened over the years. The storms you have weathered, those times when you have thrived, the way the world has moved you – these deserve a place on the page.

Drawing from a splendid range of sources, John will encourage you to experiment with poetic tools of metaphor, sound, rhythm, imagery and symbol as remedies to connect with your wholeness and live with greater heart.

We will read poems by inspiring poets and explore writing exercises that tune us to a variety of experience, including:  the poetry of earth and spirit, a life of feeling and relationship, the playfulness and power of language, responding to pain and life’s challenges, a sense of community, and the blessing of common things. We will explore how stillness and empathic listening deepen the act of writing and writing as a healing journey.

To find a Poetic Medicine Workshop, check the Classes & Workshop Schedule.

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