Grace in Transition with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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The Sanctuary is delighted to collaborate with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on a special 3 week online course this Winter! If you would like to learn more about Rosemerry and her special work please click the facilitator bio button below.
Ever caught yourself cursing the driver in front of you while on your way to church or synagogue or yoga? Or found yourself incapable of praise or gratefulness while washing a stack of someone else’s dishes? How do we navigate from personal contemplative practice to daily life and vice versa? Reading and writing poems can be a transformative art that helps us weave together the gritty particulars of our daily lives and the ethereal truths we glimpse in our spiritual practices. But it’s not the poems themselves that create the connective tissue, it’s the process of cultivating curiosity and opening to reflection. In this process-forward three-week playshop, we’ll practice self-compassion, wonder, and embodied attentiveness as we read, write and converse about poems. Sharing in small groups will be totally optional. There will also be a chance to stay in the main room and talk (or listen in on conversation) about process.
Topics covered in our time together will include:
- How to meet a blank page in a playful way
- How to write past the known into the unknown
- How to ask the self and others open honest questions that inform our process
- How to meet “stuckness”
- How writing the next true thing opens us beyond our limiting expectations to write something “good”
- How to weave the holy and the quotidian in a single poem
- How to find joy in the creative process
- How poems might help us turn toward what frightens us or frustrates us
- Why finding our ears is perhaps more important than finding our voice
If you are interested in this course but cannot afford the full amount right now, please email James at programmes@sanctuary.ie to explore discounted/scholarship places with the help of our Friends of the Sanctuary Fund.
