May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We are taking this opportunity to share with you some of the IPM Community Partners and their programs with mental health focus. May 1-31st Poetry and Horses Crescent Moon Center IPM's collaboration with Crescent Moon Center focuses on bringing free poetry and wellness workshops to adults in recovery, veterans, BIPOC mothers, disabled adults, LGBTQ+ community members, immigrants, refugees, and suicide-loss survivors throughout the Bay Are

Part of the Poetic Medicine Summit 2026 year-long series The Expressive Art of Poetry Thursday, July 16, 2026 12:00 - 2:00 pm Pacific Time Registration for the full series of events, including recordings of all previous sessions is here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April This workshop explores how Poetic Medicine’s creative approach to self-expression can deepen chaplaincy practice — especially the sacred disciplines of listening, silence, and presence. Through examples

Part of the Poetic Medicine Summit 2026 year-long series The Expressive Art of Poetry Thursday, June 11, 2026 1:00 - 2:30 pm Pacific Time ​ In this Poetic Medicine workshop, you’ll be invited into a process that weaves poetry, creative expression, reflection, and writing as pathways for exploration, discovery, and self-awareness. As we write and reflect together, we’ll access and give voice to the mysteries and challenges that shape our lives, deepening authenticity and creat

Part of the Poetic Medicine Summit 2026 year-long series The Expressive Art of Poetry Saturday, May 23, 2026 9:30 - 11 am Pacific Time Register/RSVP for this Summit session: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026May23 How can poetry help us face cruelty, and begin to heal its lasting impacts? Together, we’ll consider poetry as a form of medicine: a practice of speaking, witnessing, and affirming the inherent worth of every person. ❧ ❧ ❧ The greater scope of this workshop is inten

​​ A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April26Replay Opening Weekend of IPM's Online Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry Amanda Johnston Sunday, April 26 9 am - 1 pm Pacific Daylight Time ​ Have you ever wanted to celebrate someone in your life or mark a special occasion with a poem? During times of joy and great challenges, people turn to poems that connect us through our shared human experience. Praise poems

A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April25Replay Opening Weekend of IPM's Online Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Saturday, April 25 9 am - 1 pm Pacific Time In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing about the dark times. —Bertolt Brecht, “Motto” In every moment there is the chance to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the st

A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April24Replay Opening Weekend of IPM's Online Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry Registration for a video replay of this event is here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April24Replay John Fox Friday, April 24 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Pacific Time "Bless the spirit that makes connections, for truly we live in what we imagine. Clocks move along-side our real life with steps that are