Do you struggle with finding words to express your experiences? Do you stare at the blank screen with your heart pounding? Would you like a place of self-expression without grades or expectations? Write Now! is a program of free drop-in sessions run by peer mentors, where you can nurture your own voice and creativity through writing and reflection. Groups meet weekly in three locations across campus: the Academic Success Centre, Multi-Faith Centre and Hart House.
Friday 1:30-3pm Academic Success Centre
Open to University of Toronto students
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A Place to Be
If you’d like a place for writing, mindfulness, and quiet, this might be it. An hour and a half with a few poems, a few muffins, a meditation, and no expectation. Led by Cheryl Champagne, who offers Mindful Mondays at CAPS, and Ronna Bloom, Poet in Community, this one-off event is for anyone who needs it. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. —-Rumi Tuesday February 4, 2014 11AM-12:30PM Career Centre Seminar Room Register at http://www.caps.utoronto.ca/Event-Sign-Up.htm **** Finding a Trusting Spirit: a writing workshop for graduate students at U of T
Open to Graduate Students at the University of Toronto Wednesday February 13, 2013 12:30-2PM Presented by the School of Graduate Studies with Equity Offices at the University of Toronto For more information and registration:http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/gradroom/equityspeaker.htm
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I Have to Choose: The Shimmering Moment of Deciding to be Who I Am (and What to do about It)What happens when we decide to be authentically who we are? The decisions become clear, and fear drops away, or at least, it stops stopping us. Using poetry and writing, find what helps bring the things that will guide you into the light, keep you courageous, and imagine yourself living toward your own vision. This is a collaborative workshop with Ronna Bloom, the Poet-in-the-Community at U of T, and Cheryl Champagne from Health Promotion Programs.Thursday, January 24, 2013 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. http://healthandwellness.utoronto.ca/GreenDot/Events.htm |
******** The last session of “Writing in the Spirit of Connection” is Thursday October 25, and you can still come. The first session of a new series at Hart House starts next week. Everything is on this page. Keep looking. You can register now! Writing in The Spirit of Connection (or, When You Meet the Stranger, Say Hello) Who is the stranger? Mostly we think of people we don’t know, those new to us, as strangers. But the stranger is also myself when I do something out of character; I say ‘that’s not me.’ How do you encounter what’s unfamiliar where you find it? Fear? Curiousity? In this series, use writing to explore coming up against the other who is both within and without, and saying hello. October 11, 18, 25, 2012 Thursdays Noon-1Pm Multi-Faith Centre To register http://www.multifaith.utoronto.ca/Events-And-Programs/Poetry-October-2012.htm ***** Am I? – A Writing Series About Identity and Change Do you ever feel you don’t know who you are? Or who you thought you were no longer fits? We have many identities: one you might have in your family, or others give you, one in your studies, or in the music you love. But we aren’t static, and nothing’s locked down. Like staring into a kaleidoscope, it can be disorienting, but also, maybe, freeing. In these three writing sessions, begin to trace the threads of who you might be. Ask yourself: who am I in this in moment of transition; who am I becoming? Session 1. What They Said About You (or, Whose Autobiography is this Anyway?) Session 2. I’m Not the Kind of Person Who… Session 3. Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are October 31, November 7, 14, 2012 Wednesdays Noon-1PM Hart House To register: http://uoft.me/poet
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Patrick Connors // Dec 6th 2010 at 2:25 pm
Inspired by The Four Truths (and the Multi-Faith Centre), fired by Writing Your Way Out of A Paper Bag, formed by A Writer’s Process. Still feels like it needs another draft to get the rhythm right, but it is a touchstone on my journey as a poet and in my faith walk, and couldn’t have happened without our Poet In Community, Ronna Bloom!
Spiritual Warfare
The inner battle
Defines the outer man –
Growth
Reluctant or aspired to
Inevitable as the universe
Unavoidable.
On the journey
We all go on
But not together
Whatever God or
Notion of the Divine
One holds as Holy
Each seeks the sacred
Absolute oneness
With absolute goodness and truth
The best that we can be
And That which is beyond
The best that we can comprehend
What holds me back
Is not real, and yet
Far more real than reality
The it which strikes the itch
I cannot help but scratch
Although I know it
Leaves me bitter and raw
Begging for life or death
With each breath I draw
But better to be on the path
To meet and struggle with anguish
Than to be in safe harbour
Avoiding the journey
Staying with what I’ve accepted
Denial of my destiny
O Master whom I always seek
In my hope and in despair
Please rest and bless my spirit
Flourish, Publish & Poet-in-Community | Academic Success Centre – Blog // Feb 9th 2015 at 12:16 pm
[…] Bloom, in the capacity of the Poet-in-Community, offers several workshops such as the recurring “Write Now!”, a drop-in writing workshop. Write Now! meets three times a week and is essentially an expectations […]
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