Description:

This guided session invites you to express the mess and release the stress.

Using the art of words, you’ll connect with your deepest self, writing to, from, and about the parts within.

Together, we’ll explore hidden feelings, unspoken truths, and buried wisdom through gentle, trauma-informed guidance.

This process supports healing, release, and reconnection while opening new pathways of expression and self-understanding.

The session ends with grounding and gratitude, leaving you clear, calm, and creatively renewed.

Goal:

To use poetry as an expressive practice for emotional release, self-discovery, and inner healing.

Summary:

If the words come, write! Until then, follow this process:

Prepare: Two pieces of paper and a pen (or tech with notifications off).

Check In: Scan your body and Mindspace accepting all that you discover.

Free Write

Theme: Review #3 and group/connect similar concepts. Choose the one that feels most resonant.

Distil: Express the most specific version of theme. Be precise as to the exact flavor of feeling/memory etc.

Extend: Play with extending your distillation. Consider adding rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, and examples. Consider different types of poetry styles and play with what comes.

Share (optional)

Progression:

The goal of Playing With Poetry is to get you writing. With practice you will develop a relationship with your own inner muse. You will learn what conditions and preparations are necessary for the words to flow. Lean into the discovery and exploration.

Consider sharing. There is additional healing benefits from sharing your poetry/writing. If you are comfortable consider sharing them in The Art Of Self-Connection community, or perhaps at an open mike night, online, or with a friend/family member.

Explore the more technical aspects of poetry and consider playing with specific styles and types of poetry. Once you are expressing, additional restrictions or forms can enhance expression.

We also explore this more deeply together in the live sessions. Check the calendar for the next date and the classroom for the past recordings.

Listen next:

Explore more foundational healing practices (or via iTunes, Spotify, & Amazon). You can also find 100’s more tracks, talks, and full courses on the Insight Timer app, and in The Art Of Self-Connection community.

Book a session:

This session was just an introduction to the practice. If you would like to go deeper I also offer 1:1 sessions.