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Welcome to Irish Poetry Therapy Network - IPTN, a non-profit organisation that provides an environment where participants explore at first hand, through the use of poetry therapy and bibliotherapy, the healing power of poetry as a means of identifying and dealing with various life issues.

Find out more about us and how to join our network by checking out our site.


Confidentiality Agreement: IPTN Sessions are held in a confidential space. Participants, discussions and poems are only published with agreement. These sessions use poetry as therapy and are not psychotherapy sessions.

Monday, 1 July 2019

Healing through Poetry - 8th Annual Conference

HEALING THROUGH POETRY -

 8th Annual Conference         

Saturday 12th October 2019 

9.15-5.00pm

This year, IPTN’s Conference takes place in Belfast

Join us for a day of personal development through the worlds of poetry and creativity. Qualified and experienced facilitators working in Ireland and the USA will lead these experiential sessions. No writing experience is necessary and work will not be critiqued.


Key Speaker
We are delighted to welcome award-winning poet Paula Cunningham, who will explore the theme of ‘Uses of Constraint’. Paula’s session will begin with a short reading from her work, followed by a reflection on Auden’s famous statement: Poetry makes nothing happen. We will participate in a creative activity with the possibility of drafting a poem.


Bio:
Paula Cunningham was born in Omagh and lives in Belfast. Her pamphlet A Dog called Chance was a winner in The Poetry Business Competition. Paula’s book Heimlich's Manoeuvre was shortlisted for the Fenton-Aldeburgh, Seamus Heaney Centre, and Strong Shine First Collection Prizes. Paula’s poems have been widely anthologised in Ireland and beyond, appearing in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Vol. 5, d The New Irish Poets and Best British Poetry (201).  In 2011 she won the Hippocrates Poetry Prize (NHS section) and was shortlisted in the Edwin Morgan Prize. Paula has also written plays for Tinderbox and BBC Radio 4, and a short story appeared in Faber’s Best New Irish Short Stories 2004-5. In May 2019, Paula gave a poetry reading at the10th Hippocrates Conference on Poetry and Medicine and Hippocrates Awards, Newcastle, UK. Paula currently holds an award from the Arts Council of NI.


CONFERENCE DETAILS 
Venue:  Wellington Park Hotel, 21 Malone Rd, Belfast BT9 6RU
Date: Saturday 12th October 2019

Fee :  €65  (IPTN & Lapidus members)        
          €85 Non-members (please note that if membership fees are paid at the same time as the conference fees, the lower rate will apply)
Membership fees: €15 due September
     
Fees payable in € to Irish Poetry Therapy Network

Conference fees and membership fees may be paid electronically.

Please put your name on the payment reference
Permanent TSB
Account number: 86899860
Sort code: 990643
IBAN: IE90IPBS99064386899860

Enquiries and cheques in € to:
Bernie Walsh, Treasurer IPTN,
60 Hazelwood, Gorey,
Co. Wexford,
Ireland.

Places are limited, so to ensure you will not be disappointed, please reserve your place by emailing  irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com

Meals available from the hotel

HOTEL  ACCOMMODATION
The hotel is holding some bedrooms available for conference delegates for 11/10/2019.  
The price per single is £75.00 B&B and double or twin will be £95.00
Guests can book their room by either calling or emailing reservations quoting block code IPTN111019. The hotel requires a credit or debit card from guests at the time of booking for guarantee.
Any rooms not booked from the allocation block by 13.09.19 will automatically be released – any booking after this date will be subject to availability.

https://www.wellingtonparkhotel.com/


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