classes

 

poetry classes and residencies

for children K – 12

 

 

poetry as a therapeutic & spiritual practice

classes & workshops for adults

2011 Tour in Hawai’i

Vicky Edmonds teaches workshops and classes on using the art and practice of writing as an opportunity for looking deeper into the mysteries that are still unsolved in our lives. We use poetic elements and phrases as a way of moving into the center of ourselves and writing from there, the deepest and most genuine places in our human lives.

The purpose of this work is to try to locate and then keep our authenticity, and then to be with others who are doing the honest work of trying to locate theirs. In any age group or population it is a way of getting down into the roots of our feelings and a method for finding our way through the confusions in our thinking and feelings combined.

Writing can inspire us. It can change and open our world. Through our own hand, from our own voice still inside, it can guide us to the hope in our lives.

We are dying of not being true in this world. We live feeling no permission to speak and then spend our lives in a prison called between the truth and what I tell you. The intimacy of this kind of poetry, the essential need for it in our lives is to bring us back home to ourselves again and again until we can finally live there.

* No previous writing experience is necessary for any of these classes *

 

 

is part of a curriculum of meaning, of finding out who we are and how we fit together into a whole greater than the sum of the parts from the upcoming book by Vicky Edmonds. They are a series of births, stages of growth, into and using always larger truths to move out of our worthlessness, back toward our innocence and make meaning in our lives.

Classes Are Available for:

Adults

Group & Private Sessions

Adolescents & Children

School Residencies
After School Programs

Expressive Arts Therapy Associations

At-Risk Populations - Youth & Adult

Jails & Prisons
Treatment Centers
Half-Way Houses
Homeless Shelters
Gang & Street Kids
Battered Women
Teenage Mothers
Non-Violence Programs

Churches & Spiritual Groups

Women’s Organizations

Community & Senior Centers

Grieving Programs

Therapeutic Groups

Hospice Centers

 

Vicky Edmonds is also Available for:

Teacher Trainings

Staff Development Programs

Conferences & Speaking Engagements

Readings

 

See Vicky Edmonds’ References

 

*Specialized Workshops* Custom workshops can be designed for any organization or group.