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Please see below for a list of upcoming workshops, classes, and events with John Fox and the Institute for Poetic Medicine.
Workshop Information and Descriptions
Who attends classes or workshops presented by The Institute for Poetic Medicine?
Our workshops will inspire and uplift anyone with a desire to express their deeper truth and creativity. John's work offers "a healing space," especially to individuals living with life altering illnesses.
People in therapeutic, healing, medical, teaching and pastoral professions will benefit deeply and find practical support as they reconnect to the inner impulse that drew them to their professional calling while discovering inner resources that will sustain them in their daily lives.
We believe poem-making is something that every person can have access to, at virtually any time or place. John's expertise is in providing a safe environment and the skillful means to claim that right for yourself. We believe this process is healing when shared in a community of others.
If you are just beginning to explore writing or have been writing for a long time, this work will encourage and refresh you.
Poetry, Community and the Flourishing Heart
Presented by John Fox, CPT
The Centre for Peace
1825 West 16th Ave ( at Burrard Street) Vancouver
Friday, Jan. 13th (2:00pm) –
Sunday, January 15th (Noon)
Cost: $295 (includes tuition, lunch on
Wednesday, supper on Tuesday and Wednesday)
To register send $100 non-refundable deposit
in a cheque made out to "Ray McGinnis,"
and mail to Ray McGinnis, 2095 Beach Avenue,
#403, Beach Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6G 1Z3
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The Journey of the Poet
Following Your Thread, Breaking Your Silence
a workshop with Ray McGinnis and John Fox
Monday, January 19, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
St. Andrew's United Church
1044 St. George's Avenue
North Vancouver
For Information & to Register contact Ray McGinnis:
Phone (604) 408-4457 or email: writingthesacred@telus.net
Cost: $85 (includes tuition and lunch)
To register send $25 non-refundable deposit in a cheque made out to "Ray McGinnis," and mail to Ray McGinnis, 2095 Beach Avenue, #403, Beach Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6G 1Z3
Every real poem is the breaking of existing silence,
and the first question we might ask any poem is,
What kind of voice is breaking silence,
and what kind of silence is being broken?
Adrienne Rich
from Art of the Possible
There's a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn't change.
William Stafford
from The Way It Is
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day-by-day: that the self-interest I was looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of the issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried within them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
Barack Obama
from Dreams from My Father
This workshop will bring attention to staying touch with that place in you that is steady and true; as well as expressing the unique and creative voice of the poet within you.
There are holy silences. those moments where deep listening opens the heart and enriches community and there are oppressive silences, when what is true and just is squashed or ignored. The poet in you is in touch with both of these silences. We know society can ignore this powerful voice within us but all to often it is ourselves who ignore it! It is our intention to help you break through oppressive silence and savor silences that fertilize and honor your creative voice.
During this retreat day, we will help each other to make contact with that "thread," what Barack Obama calls that "central explanation" and encourage you to express those "sacred stories."
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know,
but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why?
Because whenever you think or you believe or you know,
you're a lot of other people; but the moment you feel,
you're-nobody-but-yourself.
e. e. cummings
from Advice to a Poet
Ray McGinnis is author of Writing the Sacred. He has led workshops across nine provinces and 25 states in the USA. He has been dubbed a "minstral of poetry" traveling over a hundred days a year leading workshops across North America.
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Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-making
Presented by John Fox, CPT
Poetry is a natural medicine that extends solace and relief,
gives a cathartic voice to suffering, reveals insight
and shows us what it means to be human.
John Fox
Center for Urban Spirituality
1314 NW Irving #512
Portland, OR 97209
Friday, March 20, 2009 (7:00 - 9:30 p.m.) $20.00 for Friday eve., open to all
Saturday, March 21 (10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Sunday, March 22 (9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Workshop Friday - Sunday is $200.00
for those attending entire workshop, registration limited to 18
For more Information and to Register:
Marna Hauck (503) 771-0711 deeperharmony@gmail.com
This workshop offers a safe, supportive environment for writing poems that reveal feelings, distill meaning, shore up your ability to respond to difficulties with integrity and courage.
Poetry guides us toward insight, integration and healing. Participants will experiment with the poetic elements of metaphor, sound, rhythm, imagery and symbol.
This workshop will bring attention that place in you that is genuine; as well as express the unique and creative voice of the poet within you.
Topics include:
Healing applications of poetry as healer
How playfulness is a key to creativity
The art of listening as a catalyst to the creative process
Gathering poetic tools
Speaking your truth, speaking your heart
The joy of simple things
We will look at the how a nonjudgmental, curious approach to poetry and writing helps to: heal wounds, strengthen your health, enjoy each moment, build community and tune to your spirit.
Appropriate for beginning and experienced writers. This workshop provides helping & healthcare professionals with self-care tools and applicable techniques for their practice.
Wherever I can find a place
to sit down and write,
that is my home.
Mary TallMountain
John Fox is a certified poetry therapist and associate professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. He also teaches at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and John F. Kennedy University in the Bay Area. He is the author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making.
He offers workshops throughout the United States.
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The Journey of the Poet
Following Your Thread, Breaking Your Silence
a writing workshop with John Fox, CPT
The Journey of the Poet
Following Your Thread, Breaking Your Silence
a writing workshop with John Fox, CPT
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
Saturday, March 28 - Sunday, March 29, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days
Contact:
Tania Kowalenko (763) 479-1458 takova@msn.com
or
Tom Hubler (612) 375-0640 hubler@msn.com
Every real poem is the breaking of existing silence,
and the first question we might ask any poem is,
What kind of voice is breaking silence,
and what kind of silence is being broken?
Adrienne Rich
from Art of the Possible
There's a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn't change.
William Stafford
from The Way It Is
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day-by-day: that the self-interest I was looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of the issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried within them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
Barack Obama
from Dreams from My Father
This workshop will bring attention to staying touch with that place in you that is steady and true; as well as expressing the unique and creative voice of the poet within you.
There are holy silences. those moments where deep listening opens the heart and enriches community and there are oppressive silences, when what is true and just is squashed or ignored. The poet in you is in touch with both of these silences. We know society can ignore this powerful voice within us but all to often it is ourselves who ignore it! It is our intention to help you break through oppressive silence and savor silences that fertilize and honor your creative voice.
During this retreat day, we will help each other to make contact with that "thread," what Barack Obama calls that "central explanation" and encourage you to express those "sacred stories."
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know,
but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why?
Because whenever you think or you believe or you know,
you're a lot of other people; but the moment you feel,
you're-nobody-but-yourself.
e. e. cummings
from Advice to a Poet
Ray McGinnis is author of Writing the Sacred. He has led workshops across nine provinces and 25 states in the USA. He has been dubbed a "minstral of poetry" traveling over a hundred days a year leading workshops across North America.
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