IEATA's 14th Annual International Conference

What is a Poetic Medicine Circle? A Poetic Medicine Circle is a catalyst for exploration and transformation and a resource for rejuvenating individual and community resiliency. Objective:This workshop offers a poetic medicine approach that weaves poetry, creative expression, reflection, and writing inviting exploration, discovery, self-awareness, and self-care. Through the intermodal process, we deepen into our authenticity as we access, embody, and give voice to our creative potential. Overview: Our offering of poetic medicine woven with creative expression can be engaged as a practice to rejuvenate and cultivate self-awareness, understanding, and self-care, which strengthens resilience across the lifespan. We will engage poetic medicine and other forms or creative expression intermodally, inviting deep listening and reflection while opening to self-care. Creative expression opens us to multi-dimensional perspectives regarding our lived experience. It adds richness to our lives by initiating our poetic and creative aesthetic awareness. In our poetic medicine circle, we will explore ways poetry and creative expression can be profound and nourishing in our fast-paced world.