Repairing the Roots: Mending Childhood Trauma to Heal Ourselves and the Web of the World
How can writing poems help us enter the world with more curiosity, more wonder, more compassion, more love—especially when things seem difficult? Together we’ll read poems, converse about them, use them as launching points for our own writing and talk about process. More a playshop than a workshop. All levels of poetry-writing experience welcome.
One of the greatest gifts poetry offers us is the chance to see the same world in a new way. A poem can’t change the facts, but it can change the way we meet the facts, and this can change everything. In this brief writing workshop, we’ll explore playing with metaphors, letting curiosity lead us past the edge of what we think we know into new possibilities for framing a moment.
We’ll be less interested in writing something perfect and more interested in discovering our own stumbling blocks and epiphanies. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer helps weave a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice.