top of page

Upcoming workshops

  • For All interested in Word Play and Wellbeing
    For All interested in Word Play and Wellbeing
    Fri, 12 Apr
    Lower Hutt
    For All interested in Word Play and Wellbeing
    12 Apr 2024, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
    Lower Hutt, 19 Bristol Square, Hutt Central, Lower Hutt 5010, New Zealand
    Discover how a simple poetic form can be used as a unique and effective form of mindfulness, and what this can do for your health and wellbeing.
    Details

About my workshops ...

For large and small groups as well as those designed to meet the professional learning needs of diversely different organisations (e.g. a health collective; an association of celebrants; a tropical retreat for personal-development; conference of teachers and educational leaders). 

​

We approach the work playfully and in the enlivening of language, can discover the profound. 

Once it is practised as an imaginative discipline, seminaria poetry can become an energisingly new window into the world.  As one co-researcher put it, 

​

 

“… a tiny Velux window you can open to let some light in once a day or twice.”

​

MURRAY, SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

The mindfulness of seminaria as a Professional Learning opportunity

My workshops are dovetailed to the needs and purpose of the particular groups I serve. (Themes and topics, problem-solving exercises e.g. aligning with Bodies of Knowledge for best practice, can be requested.)

Typically workshops of 1.5 – 2 hours comprise:

  • An introduction including the underpinning science

  • A powerpoint for visual and memory support if desired

  • Learning how to master the technique

  • Individual learning exercises

  • Group exercises with feedback

  • Consolidation and on-going support offered

Whole day or Weekend Workshops allowing for more artistic and creative processing and integration: 

  • Introduce the mindfulness of seminaria in novel ways

  • Share colourful stories from the research

  • Evidence the benefits of practice through creative participation

  • Offer fun with words through observing, writing, listening, speaking

  • Provide meaningful content (incl. movement, colour, sound) for beginners and the experienced 

  • Intersperse solo, paired, and group exercises indoors and in Nature

  • Facilitate the writing of poetry as a new way of seeing

  • Offer publication possibilities

​

Please contact me directly if your organisation or group wishes to me to speak or facilitate a Mindfulness of Seminaria workshop and to receive news and updates about my upcoming workshops and events please sign-up for my newsletter here.
bottom of page