Robert McDowell returns to the Bay Area on September 23-25, 2011 to lead a transformative workshop: “WAKING UP TO THE POETRY OF YOUR PRACTICE: DISCOVERING YOUR SOULPOEM”
WHERE: Earthrise Retreat Center at Institute of Noetic Sciences
WHEN: September 23—25, 2011
TO REGISTER, CONTACT: Lisa VanderBoom
707.779.8224
events@noetic.org
OR CALL/EMAIL: Jan L. Fischer, Ph.D.,
Education Program Manager
707-779-8202
jfischer@noetic.org
WAKING UP TO THE POETRY OF YOUR PRACTICE:
DISCOVERING YOUR SOULPOEM
A workshop led by Robert McDowell, Poet and Author of the
bestselling Poetry as Spiritual Practice and the new The More We Get Together: The Sexual and Spiritual Language of Love (September 2011)
Each of us is born with an authentic voice, a soul‐poem. As we swim in the womb, we listen to and absorb our first compelling poem, the beating of our mother’s heart.
Born into a world that often disregards poetry, we must make our way back in spiritual practice to that unique, root language of devotion.
Whether you’ve been writing for a long time, or are just beginning, Waking Up to the Poetry of Your Practice will bring you home.
Through meditation, Poem Talks, and playful individual and collaborative writing exercises, we’ll reconnect with the sacred land and our important place on it. We’ll embrace the joy of writing and make spiritual discoveries that will deepen our practices, whatever they may be.
Participants will be engaged through Poem Talks, featuring a range of poems from diverse cultures; through guided meditations and walking meditations; through recitation; through enjoyable individual and collaborative writing exercises; through deep listening and one‐on‐one mentoring.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
* Reconnect with one’s root wisdom language
- • Engage deeply in the conversation‐through‐writing with oneself
- • Enhance deep listening skills
- • Learn more about the diverse forms of poetry
- • Improve writing and communication skills
- • Strengthen self‐confidence and spiritual practice
- • Discover a compassionate community of fellow travelers
- •Remember how to have fun in writing and practice
* Become a better storyteller
* Walk into the wide world on a poet’s feet
