The Arts & Healing Resiliency Center is proud to announce a Special Event:

Poetic Medicine Circle: Creativity and Compassionate Self-Care

Developed and facilitated by Terri Goslin-Jones, Ph.D., REACE and Susan O’Connell, MATP, MTP, REACE.

What is a Poetic Medicine Circle?

A Poetic Medicine Circle is a catalyst for exploration and transformation and a resource for building individual and community resiliency.

“Poetry is a natural medicine that extends solace and relief, gives cathartic voice to suffering, reveals insight and shows us what it means to be human.” ~ John Fox, PPM, Founder & President, Institute for Poetic Medicine

“You are not Atlas carrying the world, it is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.” ~ Vandana Shiva

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~ Carl Rogers

Who should attend?

Educators, caregivers, counselors, consultants, creativity and expressive arts students/practitioners, graduate students, healthcare practitioners, and therapists, those interested in learning about self compassion and poetic medicine.

No experience needed.

What is the motivation for joining a Poetic Medicine Circle?

Cultivating Compassion and Self Compassion * Cultivating Poetic and Creative Aesthetic Awareness * Self-Care * Mindfulness and Beginner's Mind * Nourishment and Rejuvenation * Authenticity and Creative Expression * Exploration and Play * Relational Creativity * Working with Conflict * Positive Relationships * Work/Life Integration

Workshop Overview:

We will engage poetic medicine in a way that invites listening, reflection, compassion, and self-care. This practice nurtures and strengthens resilience across the lifespan.

Poetry 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 can be profound and nourishing in our fast-paced world.

This poetry circle offers a process to develop a way to listen below the commotion of daily life. Cultivating a listening practice invites us into a deeper way of knowing ourselves and the world around us. Creative practice and poetry assist us in times of life choice discernment, and grounds us in an ancient practice that benefits us and the community around us.

Facilitators:

Terri Goslin-Jones, PhD, REACE ~ https://terrigoslin-jones.com

Terri serves as Psychology/Creativity Studies faculty at Saybrook University. Her reason for teaching is to support life-long learners who are on a personal quest to create change in their life and in their part of the world. Creativity is at the heart of her work. Terri believes that every person has a creative, unique spirit, and that creative energy is a conduit for growth. Terri is a contemplative creative, mindfulness, and expressive arts practitioner, and has a passion for exploring humanistic/ transpersonal psychology, world religions, and multi-cultural worldviews. Her creativity is expressed through family life, expressive arts, gardening, poetry, physical fitness, photography, spirituality, and international travel.

Susan O'Connell, MTP, MATP, REACE ~ https://wildreciprocity.com

Susan's education and experience is grounded in the expressive arts, transpersonal psychology/ecopsychology, and poetic medicine. She facilitates poetic medicine circles woven with time in nature, creative expression, and spiritual awareness. She served as graduate level core faculty and academic advisor for Sofia University in the creative expression, ecopsychology specializations and spiritual development and practices across the lifespan. Susan served as director for the creative expression certificate program at Sofia University and was a Co-Chair for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. She is a published author, poet, and photographer. She understands life as an ongoing learning exploration and honors those paths that open imagination, healing, and offer insight and transformation. Susan's interest lies at the intersection of creative expression, dreams, contemplative practices, and care of the earth.

The Inspired Mission of the Arts & Healing Resiliency Center is to Honor & Practice the Caring Art of Human Connection.

“Dr. Diane has been able to create a safe place on zoom for people from all over the world to meet and explore their innermost thoughts. We have used poetry and music and written about our feeling or express how the piece moves us. I have been surprised at some of the buried emotions that have arisen in these meetings. I look forward to Saturdays now to see what else I can discover about myself.” Rachelle

“Engaging, sensitive and insightful. The Arts & Healing Resiliency Centre helps me to develop innovative approaches to supporting individuals and communities through expressive arts. Each workshop is creative, collaborative and rooted in the wisdom of lived experiences. Exploring our rich inner lives is central to my art and poetic practice and Diane’s holistic approach honours vulnerability and courage.” Tanya E. Denhere, Artist & Poet  

"Diane, thanks SO much for a beautiful healing workshop today. I got so much from it and am looking forward to going back through all my scribbles and doodles I did during the class as things came to me. I can't tell you how much I get from these workshops, it's truly such a gift in my life." Katherine Raina

"I love the way you offer your groups Diane - it resonates with me on a deep level ~ so beautifully done. I felt so moved and uplifted by everyone's sharing, including yours - it really was very helpful in many ways. I love attending these groups. Such a great experience. Thank you. Anin Utigaard, MFT, REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist)

Do you want to experience for yourself the healing powers of the expressive arts? The Arts and Healing Resiliency Center provides a supportive and caring community to nurture arts expression (writing, drawing, music) to increase awareness of self and others, and to build resiliency.

Please note that while this is not a therapy group, it is a safe place for self expression, deeper understanding of one's self and others, and improving one’s ability to cope with life's challenges.

Founder-director, Diane Kaufman, MD, is a poet, artist, child psychiatrist, and humanism in medicine awardee. Her story, “Bird That Wants to Fly,” inspired an opera composed by Michael Raphael, performed by Trilogy: An Opera Company, and narrated by actor Danny Glover.

For more information please see: https://www.facebook.com/ArtsHealingResiliency. http://www.mindmatterspc.com/ahrc.

Dr. Kaufman can be reached at drdiane@mindmatterspc.com and artsmedicine@hotmail.com.

"Pegasus Says" poem by Diane Kaufman, MD.

"Phoenix Bird Rising" painting by Diane Kaufman, MD.

"Creative Life Lines" poster artwork is by Amanda Meador with text by Diane Kaufman, MD.

"Don't Give Up" song by Diane Kaufman, MD (lyrics, executive producer), Mia Stegner (lyrics, song writer, and vocalist), and Raymiah Jackson (arranger/producer). Animation for the “Don't Give Up" song and public service announcement by Lucia Martinez Rojas.