June 2026 | Our Mystic Heart: Expanding our Inner Light during Turbulent Times | Terri Goslin-Jones and Susan O’Connell

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

​Registration for the full series of events, including recordings of all previous sessions is here: givebutter.com/Summit2026April

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.

Terri Goslin-Jones, Ph.D., REACE, PPM

Practitioner of Poetic Medicine

Terri serves as Psychology/Creativity Studies faculty at Saybrook University and served as consulting faculty for the Person-Centered Expressive Arts program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2022-2025). She is the author of Life's Concerto: Wholeness through Poetry and Expressive Arts (2025) and co-author of Weaving Ourselves Whole: A Guide to Forming a Transformational Expressive Arts Circle (2023).

She teaches graduate courses in Art and Healing, Expressive Arts, and Poetry for Death, Loss, and Transition. Terri serves on dissertation committees that include poetry, creativity, and expressive arts-based research at Saybrook University. Her reason for teaching and serving as an advisor for doctoral research is to support lifelong learners in a quest to create change in their lives and in their part of the world. Creativity is at the heart of her work.

Terri has designed and facilitated community poetry circles on topics such as self-compassion, death, loss, and life transition, nature/haiku, dreams, and our emotional landscape. She is a mindfulness facilitator and completed UCLA's Mindfulness Research Awareness Center Trainers program.

Terri also completed the 20-day, Nine-Gates Mystery School, an experiential immersion from the Celtic, African, Native American, Spiritual Psychology, Sufi, esoteric Christian, Hindu, Sound Healing, Kabbalah, and Buddhist traditions. She has a passion for exploring humanistic and transpersonal psychology, world religions, and multi-cultural worldviews.

She previously served as a Vice-President of Human Resources and received certification in coaching (ICF through Lee Hecht Harrison), MBTI, HOGAN, Dimensional management training, Dismantling Racism-NCCJ, International Association of Quality Circles, and Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360 Feedback.

Her creative passions include family life, expressive arts, painting, poetry, gardening, and a love for life-long learning, physical fitness, spirituality, and international travel.

Website: www.terrigoslin-jones.com

Susan O’Connell, MATP, MATP, REACE, PPM

Practitioner of Poetic Medicine

Susan O’Connell is an educator, poet, writer, and an IEATA registered expressive arts educator/consultant. She has a Master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology specializing in creative expression and is trained as a multi-cultural/earth-based minister.

She offered courses at Sofia University including spirituality across the lifespan, spiritual practices, creative expression, and transpersonal ecopsychology.

She is a graduate of the Practitioner of Poetic Medicine Certification Program offered by John Fox through The Institute for Poetic Medicine.

Susan’s interests lie at intersections of the mystic heart, expressive arts, and reciprocal relationship with the human and more-than-human world.

Her creative publications are included in Voices of the Grieving Heart (M. Bernhardt, Ed.), Deep Time Journal, Presence Journal, Abbey of the Arts, Anxiety Warrior II.

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!