Growing Humankindness

Gathering Ourselves: A Creativity Circle to Nurture Connection and Compassion
2025-06-06 08:00 - 2025-11-14 17:00 (America/New_York)
Friends, please join me and my co-facilitator, Tamara Strijack, for Gathering Ourselves, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other.
In these online gatherings, we’ll use centering exercises, prompts, poems, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage, journaling, writing, journal pages, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous, deeper, and restorative relationship with our inner world.
We’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe, sacred space where we can share, listen to ourselves, and listen to each other with ‘the ears of our hearts.’
We’ll be meeting once a month from June to November from 12 to 3 pm CDT on Fridays. Tuition is 6 monthly payments of $125 USD and there are limited spots. If the group is full, please contact us to join the waiting list.
Learn more and register here.

Writing Through Illness: A Poetry Workshop with One Art
2025-07-17 18:00 - 20:00
“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you. Your feelings need you. Go home and be there for all of these things.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Illness – of all shapes and forms – is a complex threshold. As we journey through her doors, we meet change, loss, fear, pain, grief, fatigue, gratitude, wonder, awe – the full mystery of what it means to be human and to live in a human body.
In this online playshop with One Art, a poetry journal, we’ll explore, write and share our way into a more generous, deeper connection with the complexity that arises when we host an illness in our body’s ‘guest house.’ We’ll use writing practices, presence, and poetry to meet these guests and nurture a more regenerative, curious, and compassionate relationship with our bodies, hearts, and minds.
What might illness have to share with us? How might it meet us? How might we meet it?
This workshop is open to anyone who’s been touched by illness – their own, a loved one’s, a friend’s – and all kinds of illness – physical illness, mental illness, chronic illness, sudden illness. All levels of writing experience are welcome.
If you can’t join us live, we’ll record our time together so you can explore it later at your own pace.
