Poetry for Wellness
Reignite your Healing with Free-Verse PoetryCIRICULUM OVERVIEW:
Matches: introductions & foundations
Smoke: the written word
Flame: the spoken word
Blaze: reigniting the outer world
Inferno: reigniting the inner world
Embers: revision & integration
Coals: Optional poetry reading: community & performance
∙Find your voice
∙Develop your passion
∙Speak your truth
Poetry For Wellness welcomes all levels of experience with poetry. Those who join this course work alongside poetry facilitator Gemma Campanini for a foundation of free verse poetry centered around personal wellness.
This course uses writing to reintegrate awe an wonder back into adult life, reuniting the inner and outer world. Those who take this course invite a lens of creativity and passion through a selection of guided writing, discussion, revision, and teambuilding activities.
This poetry workshop integrates the tradition of free verse poetry from both written-word and spoken-word/performance styles.
DETAILS:
Tuesdays 6-8 PM for 6 weeks
March 25, April 1, April 8, April 15, April 22, April 29
@ The Living Room Therapy & Wellness Center
1050 E Walnut St, Suite A
This workshop includes the opportunity to perform in a community poetry reading with The Bards of Moon City on Friday, May 2nd at no extra cost. (Participation is optional). Location TBD.
Note: Enrollment is capped at 10 learners. First come, first served.
Register using the link below:
Meet Gemma campanini
Gemma Campanini is dedicated to helping others discover, cultivate, and embrace their creative voice. During her Master of Arts degree in Communication, Gemma designed and conducted a research project investigating how learning to write and perform original poetry can be tools for personal healing and community-building. This study served as the inspiration for building her newest project, a community class available in collaboration with The Living Room Therapy and Wellness Center: “Poetry for Wellness: Reignite Your Healing with Free-Verse Poetry.”
Currently, as an instructor of Communication at Ozarks Technical Community College and Missouri State University, Gemma helps college students gain confidence expressing themselves through writing and public speaking. Additionally, for the last 3 summers, Gemma has worked as an instructor of poetry at the Missouri Fine Arts Academy, a 2-week intensive summer program for high school students in the arts.
Gemma also holds a strong volunteer presence and is passionate about bringing creative outlets to her community. In addition to running the local “Free Voice” poetry workshop series for 1.5 years, she served as the director of the monthly “Show Me Poetry” poetry slam for 3 years and has managed the “Oh Snap Poetry” open mic series for 9 years. Gemma has been a proud member of the Bards of Moon City, a local poetry collective, for the last 2 years and has appeared in several locally published poetry anthologies and Springfield News-Leader articles.
Outside of her work life, Gemma loves to spend time with family and friends, books and notebooks, tea, cooking, and cats.