THE BIG REFRAME:
Poetry as a Tool for Re-Seeing the World
Facilitated by: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Available by: Watch Online Recordings
Price: General Public: $ 200.00 | One Spirit Graduates and Students: $ 180.00
Elective Credits: 2
Your perspective matters. How you see the world—the way you meet even the smallest moment—affects everyone and everything in the world around you.
The stories you tell yourself and others create the big conversation—what are we doing here? What does it mean to be alive?
But practically speaking, how do we change our perspective? How might our stories limit us? How do we re-see what we’ve seen again and again? The poets have something to teach us about perspective—how to find meaning in the moment, how to unlearn what we think we know, how to be infinitely curious, and how to enter into deeper conversations with ourselves, each other, the moment and the world.
When we meet the moment with a pen in our hands, we change our relationship to the world. We become narrators of our own lives—able to meet the story of the moment in fresh ways.
In this two-day playshop (way more fun than a workshop!)
we will read and discuss poems that help us re-see the whirled,
and we’ll write and (if you wish) share our own poems, engaging in the powerful practice of showing up, leaning in to the realm of pure potential and joining our small voices in the big conversation.
Everyone welcome. No previous writing experience necessary. What will happen when you show up?
FACULTY:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer creates a playful, safe classroom environment where people can explore writing. She lives on the banks of the San Miguel River in southwest Colorado. She served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017), the first San Miguel County poet Laureate (2007-2011), was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019), co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process), is the co-founder of Secret Agents of Change, co-hosts Stubborn Praise (an online poetry salon) and co-directs Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club. Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS News Hour, in Rattle.com and American Life in Poetry, and on river rocks. She has thirteen poetry collections, most recently Hush, winner of the Halcyon Prize for poems of human ecology, and Naked for Tea, a finalist for the Able Muse book award. She teaches poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, scientists and more. She’s been a storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival and Taos Storytelling Festival. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. You can find her daily poems on her blog, www.ahundredfallingveils.com One-word mantra: Adjust. www.wordwoman.com