Appearances
All day Alchemy Workshop: Saturday May 29 $100
(more classes below--I'm just really, really excited to be offering this all day excursion into the mysteries of alchemy--from artworks to sacred texts to our own lives)
Appearances
April 16-17:
University of Central Florida Bookfair: http://education.ucf.edu/bookfest/programs.cfm
May 6-9
Asheville Wordfest: http://www.ashevillewordfest.org
May 12 7:15 pm MAHEC
MAHEC Women and Addiction Conference
http://www.mahec.net/afow/sessions.aspx
June 4-5
Blue Ridge Book Festival: http://www.blueridgebookfest.org/
September 10-11
Carolina Mountain Literary Festival http://www.cmlitfest.org/
CLASSES
Poetry workshop at Writers Workshop
Saturday May 22
All day Alchemy Workshop: Saturday May 29 $100
Tuesday mornings at Write Mind Institute:
Soul Tree meditation and poetry 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Coming Soon: Registration is open at site
Asheville Arboretum: A Healing Seed Creative Writing Workshop Thursdays in May 10 a.m. Join us for walks in the woods, admiration of nature and the expression of life in words. http://www.ncarboretum.org
Poetry and Psychotherapy: Resilience and the Creative Process
Monday April 12 at MAHEC
Poems are about changes. So is life. In this workshop, participants will explore how language loosens in poetry to permit healing through transformation in small, incremental steps. Participants will also explore how the creative process of writing poems aids in the building of resilience and self healing. If the ego is fixed on keeping things the same, poetry is a pathway to relaxing its grip and allowing a new self to emerge. By giving voice to the psyche, poetry permits an exchange of past and present, loss and gain, powerlessness and power. This process can lead to an awakening of resilience and move us into new ways of seeing and experiencing life.
Participants will:
- Explore a selection of poems by poets who have survived trauma.
- Look at how change operates in the language of poems as a reflection of how change operates in the psyche.
- Write poems and look at them as vehicles of change.
- Learn tools for incorporating poetry into psychotherapeutic practices.
- Expand their perception of poetry as an application in psychotherapeutic practice.
- Sharpen skills in reading poems for shows of the psyche’s strength in moving through the healing process.
- Discuss the role of equilibrium in healing—when it must be lost and how it can be found again.
Workshops and Classes and Parties
Have and alchemical birthday party--this stuff is not dull. For your next birthday, make it a rite of passage not just for you but for your friends as well. Alchemy is engaging and eye-opening, and it is has a delightful sense of humor. I'm also very much in celebrating things.
Laura is available to work with private groups, therapy clients, school students, teachers, therapists, social workers, spiritual organizations, families, recovery groups and individuals on their own path.
For Booking information: contact Laura Hope-Gill at 828-681-5348 or at laura@thehealingseed.com.
