University of Toronto's Poet in Community

Finding a Trusting Spirit:

a writing workshop for graduate students at U of T

What part of your spirit never goes to work, gets edited out, or left at home? How do you find words, experiences, human and material supports to invite your whole self to your day? This workshop explores the meeting place of your humanity and your professional self at U of T, the risks and costs, needs and desires. Through writing exercises, explore the possibility of finding a trusting spirit at the cusp of work and heart. No writing experience necessary.

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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Leaps and Boundaries: Navigating Relationships

How do you navigate being involved in your life? Whether your involvement is with a partner, a family member, a community, or a passion: how do you engage while setting boundaries? Using poems as starting points, this series of writing workshops will navigate the sometimes wild ride of our daily interactions, the necessary leaps and limits.

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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

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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