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What is Poetic Medicine?

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Rita Dove

...the poem is a way to see the truth and in that process healing change becomes possible.

John Fox

Recovering the poet strengthens the healer...a lot of healing lies in the recovery of a personal sense of meaning, that capacity which enables us to endure difficulties, to find and draw on unsuspected strength.

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Poetry is a natural medicine; it is like a homeopathic tincture derived from the stuff of life itself -- your experience. Poems distill experience into the essentials.  Our personal experiences touch the common ground we share with others.  The exciting part of this process is that poetry used in this healing way helps people integrate the disparate, even fragmented parts of their life.

John Fox

Poetry provides guidance, revealing what you did not know you knew before you wrote or read the poem.  This moment of surprising yourself with your own words of wisdom or of being surprised by the poems of others is at the heart of poetry as healer.

John Fox

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born . . . .

Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing poetry together heals loneliness.  What is true for someone on the deepest level is often true for us all.

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

You make a poem with words--but you also build an interior place when you write, a place where your intuitive voice may awaken and thrive.

John Fox

A poem or even a fragment of a poem may serve as the balancing point which your eyes focus on in order to walk over difficult terrain.

John Fox

How can Poetic Medicine work for me?

As a Personal Experience

Whether we choose to write with a poetry circle around us or in solitude in our own sacred space there is a way to have a personal experience of poetry-as-healer.  We offer programs that allow for the interactive experience of exploring poetry with others and we offer opportunities to explore Poetic Medicine at your own pace in your own place through our webinars.

By Bringing Poetry to Others

Because our personal experiences touch the common ground we share with others poetry offers a way to connect an otherwise seemingly unconnected community. Poetry bridges the gap and allows us to connect with humans on a human level because lived experience is what we all have, no matter what our backgrounds.

As Continuing Education

Our participants have found these trainings to be an amazing asset for the tool box of offerings for chaplains, teachers, social workers, life coaches, youth mentors, community outreach programs, peer-support groups, and beyond.  We are in the beginning stages of gaining accreditation for our programs through various national organizations.

Poetic Medicine in Real Lives

As a Personal Experience

Whether we choose to write with a poetry circle around us or in solitude in our own sacred space there is a way to have a personal experience of poetry-as-healer.  We offer programs that allow for the interactive experience of exploring poetry with others and we offer opportunities to explore Poetic Medicine at your own pace in your own place through our webinars.

By Bringing Poetry to Others

Because our personal experiences touch the common ground we share with others poetry offers a way to connect an otherwise seemingly unconnected community. Poetry bridges the gap and allows us to connect with humans on a human level because lived experience is what we all have, no matter what our backgrounds.

As Continuing Education

Our participants have found these trainings to be an amazing asset for the tool box of offerings for chaplains, teachers, social workers, life coaches, youth mentors, community outreach programs, peer-support groups, and beyond.  We are in the beginning stages of gaining accreditation for our programs through various national organizations.

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