IPTN Conference 2022

 

Our IPTN Conference this year is on

Saturday, 15th October 2022 on zoom

Finding Your Compass Through Poetry Therapy

Details to follow shortly with our new programme of sessions!

IPTN membership is due in September. Check out details on our Membership page above.

Wellness Thro Seasons Workshop 13/8/22 - zoom

Come and join us for our 3rd 'Wellness Through the Seasons' workshop on Saturday 13th August 2022 from 2pm to 4 pm on zoom.

A TASTE OF AWAKENING: AWARENESS THROUGH HAIKU
with Shelley Tracey PTP

Haiku is a form of brief Japanese poetry, also popular with poets writing in other languages.

The themes of haiku include nature, transience, and human nature.

The title of this workshop is based on this extract from Natalie Goldberg’s book, Long Quie Highway: Waking up in America:

‘The real essence of a haiku is the poet’s awakening, and the haiku gives you a small taste of that, like a ripe red berry on the tip of your tongue. Your mind actually experiences a marvelous leap when you hear a haiku, and in the space of that leap, you feel awe. Ahh, you say. You get it. The poet transmits her awakening.’ Natalie Goldberg
In this workshop, we will read and compose haiku which capture moments of awareness. awe and awakening. We will also write haiku in response to images, and find out about creating haiga (an image combined with a haiku or a tanka).

Members: €15

Non-Members: €25

Email irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com to reserve your place.

Poetry and the world of Shadow

Our next workshop is taking place on zoom on 11^th June 2022 from 2pm to 4pm with Teresa Kelly 

'Let poetry help you explore the glorious world of your Shadow'

 

In this workshop Theresa will facilitate us in exploring our Shadow Self, that underbelly of the ego which tends to be loaded with feelings of disgust.  However, as psychoanalyst Carl Jung has said 'In the Shadow there is gold'  Poetry can help us to get in touch with those precious elements of ourselves which have been relegated to the shadow because of painful associations or familial/societal judgements.  Join us in this afternoon of mining for gold.

 

Places are limited so early booking is advised. 

Email irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com

€15 for IPTN members

€20 for non members.

 

Looking forward to seeing you there.

 

Poetry Club 'Repeat the Repeat'

To all IPTN Members,

Your next Poetry Club session is on Saturday 21st May from 2pm - 3pm with Carol Boland

The session is  'Repeat the Repeat' and will look at the power of repeating lines in a poem.

Hope to see you there.

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New Poetry Club Session Dates

We are excited to confirm upcoming dates of our new Poetry Club for all those who are members of IPTN:

2nd session - 21st May 2022 with Carol Boland

3rd session - 23rd July 2022 with Bernie Walsh

4th session - 10th September 2022 with Elizabeth Fitzsimons

The sessions will be held on zoom. 

Please confirm you wish to attend two weeks before the session and we will send you your zoom invite.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Group Poem: How We Rise '21

 

Group Poem 

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step



Dance light-footed across the bog of softness

Still I rise, no blind eye turned to hold the mirror, my soul rises

Tough times do not last, but tough teams do

I imagine light arrowing through rain and sparkling like shiny confetti

Bridges will come if you follow the path, cross them or burn them, you,

Phoenix, can fly

Small, nourishing moments of quiet devotion

By dawn, the sun has whispered to each of the baby blooms in her care

I rise in praise of trees and water

Stick it Ginger! Go find your sacred space . . .

Go experience the grass on the other side

I dream of wide open spaces

Where I can dance naked in the sunlight

Dawn was breaking over the estuary

And those days, when life calls on you to weep - do.

I rise with the slow-dropping snow

The sheer reach of this mountain range uplifts me

The secret of the earth is its patience

You can't unring the bell

I drink to the smell of baby’s skin that was rare before Covid.