June 2026 | Our Mystic Heart: Expanding our Inner Light during Turbulent Times | Terri Goslin-Jones and Susan O’Connell
- IPM Team
- Apr 14
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Part of the Poetic Medicine Summit 2026 year-long series
The Expressive Art of Poetry
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 creative possibility. Open to all, especially those drawn to writing as a way to heal and thrive, this circle offers practical, experiential tools for cultivating resilience and inner light in turbulent times.
You'll leave with renewed creative energy and a deeper understanding of how poetic expression can sustain both personal growth and communal belonging.
Register for this event: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026June11
Terri Goslin-Jones, Ph.D., REACE, PPM
Practitioner of Poetic Medicine
Terri is a psychologist, educator, poet, and visual artist whose work is rooted in expressive arts and a lifelong commitment to creativity as a path to personal and spiritual growth. Terri’s work draws on expressive arts, mindfulness, and poetic inquiry. She has spent over fifteen years in a creative arts circle focused on art’s role in personal and spiritual growth. She teaches in the Psychology department at Saybrook University and has previously taught expressive arts, humanistic psychology, and poetry. She currently supervises doctoral students in their research on the transformative effects of expressive arts and creativity.
Terri is the author of Life’s Concerto: Wholeness Through Poetry and Expressive Art, which delves into the mysteries of the seasons of life, covering themes of awe, grief, hope, and spirituality. She is also the co-author of Weaving Ourselves Whole: A Guide to Forming a Transformational Expressive Arts Circle.
Susan O’Connell, MATP, MTP, REACE, PPM
Practitioner of Poetic Medicine
Susan is an educator, poet, photographer, and eco-minister. She served as director of the creative expression certification program at Sofia University while teaching courses in creative expression & transformation, transpersonal ecopsychology, and spiritual practices. Today, she facilitates poetry circles in educational, health, creative, and spiritual settings, and with John Fox for Cancer LifeLine.
Susan loves meeting others in the wild and healing landscapes of poetry while supporting the co-creation of trustworthy communities. This is especially true in her 12-week series, Opening the Mystic Heart Through Poetry, where the focus is on cultivating our mystic heart and self-compassion, and our capacity to care for the human and more-than-human world. Together we practice poetic expression, deep listening, and contemplative practices.
Her poetry has been published in Voices of the Grieving Heart (Bernhardt), Yanaguana Literary Journal, Deep Times Journal, Presence Journal, and her writing in Anxiety Warrior II (Elke Schultz) and with Abbey of the Arts.
Poetic Medicine Summit 2026
Learn more about the full series of Summit 2026 events here: https://www.poeticmedicine.org/summit2026
We would love to have you be in the circle with us. Come on your own or bring a friend!
Sponsorship opportunities are available too!
We hope that you will be able to join us for one or more of these upcoming events!
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