Cultivating Goodwill & Democracy - November 2024

Cultivating Goodwill & Democracy with the Healing Help of Poetry and Poem-Making

Presented by John Fox, PPM

In-Person in Cardiff, Encinitas, California

"Terry Tempest Williams calls the heart 'the first home of democracy,' the place where we can wrestle with democracy’s basic questions, emerging with answers on which so much depends."

~ Parker Palmer from Healing the Heart of Democracy

In a season that signals that all power is found elsewhere and beyond us, it is important for those who care — as citizens, as human beings — to explore opportunities that reclaim significant power by the individual — and by that we mean you.

These days, we are sensitive to and aware that goodwill and democracy, facts and honesty, community and individual rights are not abstract considerations.

These will be our creative focus during our retreat on November 15 - 17.

Poetry and poem-making, creativity –– this is our way to be sure that each of our voices are treasured and experienced as essential. We are providing a weekend gathering where we:

• invite you into a circle committed to give voice to goodwill and democracy,

• offer you the opportunity to tap into your personal agency and power through creativity,

• write, listen, and bear witness to ourselves and to one another in an act of community-building as a way to nourish goodwill and democracy.

Attendance is limited to 16 people.

Registration fee for all three days is $185.

Register here.

To request financial assistance for this poetry circle click here.

The workshop will be held at a home in the Cardiff, CA area - address to be provided upon registration.

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John Fox, Practitioner of Poetic Medicine, is a poet, author and CEO of The Institute for Poetic Medicine (IPM), a nonprofit he founded in 2005. IPM brings poetic medicine to communities throughout the US and internationally.

This is John’s 26th visit since 1996 bringing poem-making to the San Diego/Encinitas area with the gracious coordination of John Foos and Rebecca Speer. The IONA Poetry Community flourishes with their love and commitment.

Host or Publisher The Institute for Poetic Medicine