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Inspirational Keynotes

by KORTArides2018@ September 18, 2019

Watch my TEDx talk The Art of Changing Metaphors: TEDX Rosemerry Trommer

 

Spontaneous Perception: Opening to Our Experience

So many other voices try to tell us our stories. The news. Our families. Teachers. TV. That’s dangerous. As Stephen Baerman and Bruce Lipton write in Spontaneous Evolution, “It’s our perception of the story that shapes our reality.” Let’s take a good look at perception—yours. In this keynote—equal parts poetic and practical—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares ideas and tools for becoming our own narrators, treating our lives with curiosity, awareness and openness.

 

How to Survive Your Creative Life: Failure, Inner Donkeys, Unsolvable Story Problems and Other Reasons to Bow

Self-doubt. Self-loathing. Rejection. Uncertainty. Ahh… the creative life. Sometimes we want to press eject, but the benefits to a creative practice can be astonishing—a meaning-full, deeply connected, wonder-minded, purpose-rich life. How do you live your life as a work of art? Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares ideas on how failure, vulnerability, unknowingness and humility not only serve your creativity but also enrich the rest of your life.

 

Holy in the Moment: Finding the Poetry in Your Life

What are we doing here? What does it mean to be alive? Who are we, anyway? For centuries, poets have been grappling with these questions. Even if you never write or read a poem, you can still learn a little (or perhaps unlearn a little) from the way poets meet the moment and engage with mystery. Award-winning poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will guide us through some of the stumbling blocks that might keep us from being present and offer suggestions for ways to find the miraculous in the mundane and join our small voices in the one big conversation.

 

Feeling Stuck?: The Art of Changing Metaphors

Ever feel like you’re trapped? Could be your frame of reference. One of the fundamental findings of cognitive science is that our sense of the world and what is possible is limited by the frames and metaphors mapped in our neural circuitry. What do we do with this information? Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares new research in cognitive theory, touching personal stories, and her own enthralling poems to illustrate how powerfully metaphors affect our perception and how we might use new metaphors to our benefit—and the world’s.

 

Poet and storyteller Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer gets audiences to wake up and take on their own creative endeavors. She helps people find the poetry in their own lives and tell their own stories.

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Praise for Rosemerry

I think you have shifted the consciousness of my entire client base.

For this, and many other things, I thank you. You are perhaps the most professional person I’ve ever worked with. I’m amazed.

Craig Soren Nielson
Rural Community Assistance Corporation

Insightful, energizing, and entertaining.

Rosemerry, thank you so much for your inspirational program. The members of the American Business Women’s Association in Montrose left with fresh ideas on improving their work-a-day world and smiles on their faces.

Mavis Bennett
President, American Business Women’s Association, Black Canyon Charter Chapter

Wow, what a great response to both your reading and workshop.

Almost with tears in their eyes. Really. I have to tell you what was most mentioned as your fans applauded you; your family life, your reactions and theirs; it felt and sounded so real and most all of us have children so we all could relate. Unforgettable, you are.

Kathy Berg
Cortez Public Library, Poetry Corner Presents

Rosemerry touched their hearts.

Our students and staff benefited so much from Rosemerry’s visit. In just one afternoon of writing with her, people were surprised at how much they learned about their writing and their own process. She created a safe place where people were willing to risk. And the performance: Wow. I’ll never think of a sonnet the same again. Rosemerry has a way of grabbing the audience and delivering poetry in a way that makes it feel urgent and fun. As one woman said, ‘In my work, I just touch the surface of people. Rosemerry touches their hearts.’

Ruth Hackford-Peer
Associate Director of Student Life, Adams State College

Through poetry, humor & song, Rosemerry brings the room to life.

Her highly interactive approach gives each child the opportunity to become a participant in a beautiful, creative experiment. With the support of Rosemerry, children are allowed to shine, to sing, to be silly – to be themselves, and everyone in the room leaves with the knowledge that living in this space of openness is always a possibility.

Erika Gordon
Coordinator for enrichment programming, Ridgway Elementary School

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Praise for Rosemerry

Wow, what a great response to both your reading and workshop.

Almost with tears in their eyes. Really. I have to tell you what was most mentioned as your fans applauded you; your family life, your reactions and theirs; it felt and sounded so real and most all of us have children so we all could relate. Unforgettable, you are.

Kathy Berg
Cortez Public Library, Poetry Corner Presents

Rosemerry, thank you.

For the first time in a long time I was moved to be creative and to use writing as a tool for healing. I could feel my stagnation begin to melt away in the Light that was presented today. I’ve been freeing up some space lately and asking that it be filled with people and things that inspire me to be the best version of myself and that is exactly what happened today.

Jackie
workshop participant

Revel in your own creativity.

To participate in one of Rosemerry’s poetry playshops, or to listen to one of her beautiful presentations, is an invitation to revel in your own creativity. She welcomes her audience into a landscape of words with a generous and irrepressible spirit, and speaks with a boundless compassion. Her love of poetry reaches out and connects with her listeners, opening a space with her audience that invites them to consider themselves, and their art, and their world, in new ways. To hear Rosemerry share her poetry is a felt gift. Her listeners cannot escape being touched.

Melissa Stacey
co-founder and organizer, Writers and Scribblers Literary Retreat

I think you have shifted the consciousness of my entire client base.

For this, and many other things, I thank you. You are perhaps the most professional person I’ve ever worked with. I’m amazed.

Craig Soren Nielson
Rural Community Assistance Corporation

Insightful, energizing, and entertaining.

Rosemerry, thank you so much for your inspirational program. The members of the American Business Women’s Association in Montrose left with fresh ideas on improving their work-a-day world and smiles on their faces.

Mavis Bennett
President, American Business Women’s Association, Black Canyon Charter Chapter

Through poetry, humor & song, Rosemerry brings the room to life.

Her highly interactive approach gives each child the opportunity to become a participant in a beautiful, creative experiment. With the support of Rosemerry, children are allowed to shine, to sing, to be silly – to be themselves, and everyone in the room leaves with the knowledge that living in this space of openness is always a possibility.

Erika Gordon
Coordinator for enrichment programming, Ridgway Elementary School

An extraordinary teacher and gifted poet.

Rosemerry’s talents have helped me achieve my dream of more publication. But what is most important to me is that I have learned to write with more confidence and understand more about how to craft deeper poems about deeper subjects. I have experienced healing, safety, trust, and fun in working with Rosemerry. When I bring a poem to her, I know she will continue to find ways to help me expand my creative potential. She never runs out of great ideas.

Phyllis Klein

An amazing talent to open up people’s creative minds.

There is some kind of magic in your smile, your encouraging energy, and amazing talent to open up people’s creative minds. You have facilitated a bit of a renaissance in our building. I have felt warm, enthusiastic vibes from even some of our more reserved teachers today. Of course, the students have it now and are exuding the joy of words big time.

Vicki Phelps
4th and 6th grade science teacher, Naturita Elementary School

Rosemerry touched their hearts.

Our students and staff benefited so much from Rosemerry’s visit. In just one afternoon of writing with her, people were surprised at how much they learned about their writing and their own process. She created a safe place where people were willing to risk. And the performance: Wow. I’ll never think of a sonnet the same again. Rosemerry has a way of grabbing the audience and delivering poetry in a way that makes it feel urgent and fun. As one woman said, ‘In my work, I just touch the surface of people. Rosemerry touches their hearts.’

Ruth Hackford-Peer
Associate Director of Student Life, Adams State College

A Better Place

The world is a better place because of Trommer’s poems.

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