A Single Line Opens The Way - Exploring Poetry as a Healing Practice with John Fox, PPM

9:30am -4:30pm Saturday August 23, 2025

We hope that you are able to attend both Friday and Saturday! The Saturday portion of this workshop will be limited to 15 participants. Be sure to register and reserve your space for both days!

Please plan to bring a sack lunch with you to the event. 

Join us for this gathering where we will create a safe space to explore poetry together. We will talk about the process, read poems aloud, share what we notice, and take time to listen. When we pause we find that sometimes a single line from a poem opens. . . 

To ourselves, to each other, and the world around us.

One line or a few lines within a poem can stun and upend your way of seeing life. It can help you recover and reclaim a way of seeing, break up acceptance of the status-quo, or, put more fiercely, a single line can tear down a pre-fabricated understanding of life. 

At the very same moment of this undoing, that line or few lines in a poem can transmit an energy of wisdom and love with the enduring capacity to resonate with who you are at deeper levels of being. 

Such a line might give you a deep grounding, a resonance; something that, while plain, reveals, upon reflection, a reality exquisite, simple and direct: your still small voice within. Through that voice, a shift in perception occurs that opens a person to something real. 

We will commit to: 

• consciously create a safe place for a soul voice and presence to emerge, 
• experiment by making our own poems, 
• slow down to listen within the still silence of poems and within the community we make 

Let’s explore both of these worlds during this retreat...the line that evokes the sublime, the line that informs the heart here and now in a grounded way. 

Financial assistance request here: https://forms.gle/WJTjmZHYW5v9gZMn6