New Year, New Vision 2025
Join us for this poetry circle to jumpstart your new year in mid-December. In this session we'll discover how poetry can help affect positive personal change that can help us learn to consider new ways forward. Facilitated by Athena McClendon.
When & Where
Dec 13, 2025, 11:00 AM
Poetry Circle
About the event
New Year, New Vision is facilitated by Athena McClendon.
In this session we'll discover how poetry can help affect positive personal change that can help us learn to consider new ways forward.
No experience with poetry or workshops is necessary to attend.
This stand-alone poetry circle explores the benefits of working with others when going through hard times. This one-day program is a wonderful introduction to the style of the the Poetry as a Tool for Wellness series.
Poetry as a Tool for Wellness (PTW) is a culmination of over 20 years of ground-breaking practice utilizing poetry as a catalyst to enhance skills, affirm strengths, and nurture creativity in order to promote overall wellbeing. Piloted in settings focused on mental health, it has been found equally transformative and roundly received in a much broader context.
PTW is an ideal program for counselors, peer specialists, teachers, chaplains, healthcare/wellness coaches, community activists,…