Grace in Transition with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

I’m looking forward to offering a three-week online playshop with The Sanctuary this winter—an exploration of how poetry can help us weave the sacred and the everyday into one seamless, living practice.

You can get tickets and find out more information here.

(Note: For those attending in the US: sessions will be 12- 2 pm MT)

A detailed description below:

Ever found yourself cursing the driver in front of you on your way to yoga—or struggling to feel gratitude while scrubbing someone else’s dishes? How do we bridge the gap between our contemplative practice and the grit of daily life?

Poetry can be that bridge. Reading and writing poems together helps us cultivate curiosity, compassion, and reflection. In this process-centered playshop, we’ll explore how poems can connect us to the holy and the ordinary, to joy and frustration, to wonder and grief.

Across three weeks, we’ll play with:

• Meeting the blank page with playfulness

• Writing past what we “know” into discovery

• Asking open, honest questions that invite deeper process

• Meeting creative “stuckness” with compassion

• Listening for the next true thing instead of forcing what’s “good”

• Weaving the sacred and the everyday into a single poem

• Finding joy in the process itself

• Turning toward what frightens or frustrates us with courage

• Cultivating our ears—perhaps even more than our voice

Sharing in small groups will be optional; you may also stay in the main room to listen or converse about process.