Come To Your Senses

A poetry workshop for non-poets 

To paraphrase the award-winning poet, Mary Oliver, poetry is the doorway through which another voice may speak.

Maybe a new voice within you, or a voice that’s been quiet or held back. Maybe a new way of seeing and sensing the world around you. Maybe new ways to play with language, to listen and shape words. 

Poetry is a doorway that’s available to us all, a rich and rewarding medium for expression and play.

A lighthearted exploration of creativity in community.

In this two-and-a-half-hour workshop, we will play, take a few risks, and explore new terrain both within and outside of ourselves.
Using sample poems and writing prompts as our guides, we will:

  • Give our critical, thinking minds a break and write from our senses

  • Lightheartedly explore and write from the simplicity of the present moment

  • Experiment with accessible tools for creative expression: spontaneity, sound, free association, and more

  • Move energy out of stuck places 

  • Quickly establish rapport and community with fellow explorers

A monthly creative container 

DATES + LOGISTICS

  • Meets monthly (online)

  • Each session runs two and a half hours

  • $33 per session 

One final note…

This workshop is more about process than outcome. 

It’s not about writing “great poetry,” even though your poetry might be great. 

It’s about discovering a voice within you that may have been quiet for a very long time, or that you may have never heard from at all.  

It’s about exploring the terrain of your own interior, your own creative mind, in a playful and lighthearted way. 

You’ll leave with a few finished poems to do with as you please. 

But more importantly, you’ll leave more open to your own voice, your own capacity for expression. And you may be pleasantly surprised at what you’ve found.

Again, we meet monthly. Grab your seat here. 

This workshop was so much fun and left me feeling more alive and energized than I have felt in a long time. Robert was masterful in guiding us to open our hearts and minds…I didn’t know I had it in me… but I do now!

R.B., Technical Writer Teacher and Emodiment Coach