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Our Mission

The Institute for Poetic Medicine offers tools and support to heal body, mind, and spirit through the creative and therapeutic process of hearing, speaking, and writing poetry.

The Institute for Poetic Medicine is a non-profit 501(c)3

Upcoming Poetic Medicine Events

  • Training: Poetry as a Tool for Wellness
    Training: Poetry as a Tool for Wellness
    Sat, Mar 08
    Sold Out
    Mar 08, 2025, 9:00 AM PST
    Sold Out
    Facilitator Training Spring 2025 Saturdays, 9am - 11am Pacific Time March 8, 15, 22, 29 April 5, 12, 26 & May 3 (No meeting April 19th)
  • Opening Our Mystic Heart through Poetry
    Opening Our Mystic Heart through Poetry
    Wed, May 07
    Poetry Circle - 6 weeks via Zoom
    May 07, 2025, 1:00 PM
    Poetry Circle - 6 weeks via Zoom
    Wednesdays from 1-2:30pm Pacific May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4, 11 In approaching our mystic heart through poetry, we engage the language of the heart through image, metaphor, spaciousness, and mystery.
  • Understanding, Self-Compassion, and Showing Empathy 2025
    Understanding, Self-Compassion, and Showing Empathy 2025
    Sat, May 17
    Poetry Circle
    May 17, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Poetry Circle
    Join us this month. for a session from our popular Poetry as a Tool for Wellness series!
  • Making it Real with Healthy Choices 2025
    Making it Real with Healthy Choices 2025
    Sat, Jun 21
    Poetry Circle
    Jun 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Poetry Circle
    A session from our popular Poetry as a Tool for Wellness series!
Sandstone

Poetry really is the cure.
When we stop jabbering long enough to listen to what is going on around, among, and inside us—and we have someone to help us put that into the fewest, truest words available to us—the air clears and the aliveness flows through all the spaces in between.
 
Barbara Brown Taylor
Writer, Speaker, Spiritual Contrarian

Poetic Medicine Community

Because our personal experiences touch the common ground we share with others, poetry offers a way to connect an otherwise seemingly unconnected community.

 

We invite you to share your experiences

– your poems –

within these poetic medicine groups. 

Poetry Commons is a group that is open to all: ask questions, share poems, and become part of the larger poetic medicine community.

 

Other groups are available by invitation through registration for IPM programming.

Groups

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