Tag Archive for: poetry

Women Sharing, Women Witnessing
Accessing Emotion, Coming together post, Deepening circle practiceResponding to national news, we invited sexual abuse or assault survivors, to share her story with other women whether she had told it before or was just finding the courage to tell it now.

In Exile
Accessing Emotion, Addressing Meaningful Questions, Cancer postSharing moments from a tender counseling session with a bereaved mother, Janie Brown takes a strong and compassionate look at the impact of loss on our hearts and our lives. Do we actually “move on?” Do we actually “get over it?”

An Apprenticeship with Sorrow
Accessing Emotion, Addressing Meaningful Questions, Coming together post, Grief postFrancis Weller views grieving our current, as well as our "untended" sorrows, as essential for the freedom and vitality of our souls. He says, “Learning to welcome, hold, and metabolize sorrow is the work of a lifetime.”

Poems About Grief
Accessing Emotion, Addressing Meaningful QuestionsPoetry can touch our hearts and minds in a way no other language can. These poems can help us slip past our usual thinking and sink into a wider, deeper, and more intimate wisdom.

Discovery Circles
Accessing Emotion, Discovering Self through the Arts, In Your CommunityArts enable breakthroughs in our thinking and our understanding of self in crisis that our rational minds may withhold.

Searching for Soul Through Poetry
Discovering Self through the ArtsPoems touch in us a core, our inner teacher, our innate wisdom we sometimes forget to access.

Anyone Can Sing
Discovering Self through the ArtsOver the years, I have seen many people find a voice for their soul through song. In my volunteer and nonprofit work, I have had the privilege of guiding many who are healing with cancer, or facing death and loss, through a cathartic process…

Healing Circles: A Poem
Discovering Self through the ArtsHealing Circles Langley host Judith Adams remembers how she survived her husband’s death by banding with others.

The Spirit in Everyday Life
Addressing Meaningful QuestionsMilagros have been used for centuries throughout Latin America and represent the universality of humans acknowledging the presence of spirit in everyday life.

Circle Poets
Discovering Self through the ArtsFor those touched by death, grief, illness, loss, writing poems in circle heals.