An online session in the service of connection, writing and peace.

I’ll be reading and leading a workshop at the Wild Writers Literary Festival in Waterloo Ontario. Presented by The New Quarterly literary magazine, Words Worth Books, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

a writing workshop in partnership with Southwestern Ontario Military Family Resource Centre

In this workshop, explore the meeting place of planning and chaos, risk and creativity.

Using poetry and reflection, this workshop is for health care professionals to explore the impacts of caring for human suffering, now

A writing workshop for health care professionals who are feeling stuck or blocked in any aspect of their lives

This session is part of the Spring Solace FREE online group and workshop series. For individuals who are feeling isolated during the pandemic, struggling to find supports, and interested in developing new ways of coping.

Through the use of poems and prompts, write and reflect on what sustains you, what you love, and what you need.

This session is part of the Spring Solace FREE online group and workshop series. For individuals who are feeling isolated during the pandemic, struggling to find supports, and interested in developing new ways of coping.

A 90 minute workshop designed to take the anxiety out of poetry. Full on beginners welcome. Limited to 15 participants.

Be Good to Yourself, Whoever You Are

Sometimes at school and in life your energy moves easily towards projects and people but there’s little left for your own restoration. In this session, through the use of poems and prompts…

This 90 minute workshop is designed to take the anxiety out of poetry. Through poems and exercises, you will be encouraged to write a few short pieces that give form to your own feelings, experiences and concerns.

Use writing to explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others.

Writing and Reflection for Medical Students, Residents, and Health Professionals

Use writing as a platform to explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others.

Perhaps you are too overwhelmed to read this? Let’s be brief: this workshop will address impacts, physical or emotional, personal or professional, of caring for human suffering. In notes. A creative writing workshop.

Using reflective writing as a platform, explore what it is to “see” your patient, as a student, a care provider, team member, as a human being. Have a conversation with yourself and each other about the rich nature of patient-centred collaborative work.

Making a request for accommodations or consideration from your professors, teaching assistants or supervisors can be an intimidating process. This workshop will use poetry and writing to explore the areas in which you feel hesitant in asking for what you need. 

A workshop for Residents, MD Educators and Health Care Practitioners

In another part of the hospital is a person you know — a patient, a student, a colleague. Or there's a department you’ve never visited on another floor. Or a stranger you’ve seen alone in the halls. During valentine's week, we either cringe, or act loving, or feel privately lonely. This workshop is an opportunity to connect to a person or place through writing, a way to say ‘thinking of you.’ Though you won’t be actually sending the pieces you write, it’s a way to put down a few words of connection to yourselves and each other.

AWAKE AT WORK 

Using writing as a platform, explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others.