The Institute for Poetic Medicine :: Classes and Workshops

Who attends classes or workshops presented by The Institute for Poetic Medicine?

Our workshops will inspire and uplift anyone with a desire to express their deeper truth and creativity. John's work offers "a healing space," especially to individuals living with life altering illnesses.

People in therapeutic, healing, medical, teaching and pastoral professions will benefit deeply and find practical support as they reconnect to the inner impulse that drew them to their professional calling while discovering inner resources that will sustain them in their daily lives.

We believe poem-making is something that every person can have access to, at virtually any time or place. John's expertise is in providing a safe environment and the skillful means to claim that right for yourself. We believe this process is healing when shared in a community of others.

If you are just beginning to explore writing or have been writing for a long time, this work will encourage and refresh you.

Finding the Words To Say It: The Healing Art of Written Expression

Join John Fox, CPT, in July and September in Ohio at two support centers for cancer survivors, their families and care-givers.

John Fox, who has presented frequently at The Gathering Place and Wellness Community, returns to Ohio this Summer/early Fall to offer another poetic medicine workshop at these excellent centers.

As a poet and certified poetry therapist, John creates an inviting space where those who are struggling with cancer may express themselves through the healing act of poem-making. Regardless of whether you have attended in the past, this program will offer new material and a time of renewal. If you are new to this, John creates a safe and encouraging environment. No prior experienced necessary.

The Gathering Place
23300 Commerce Park
Beachwood, OH
(216) 595-9546 to register by phone

Friday, July 25th: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Saturday, July 26th: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

You are invited to attend one or both sessions. Advance registration is required.

For information and register, please call: (216) 595-9546

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The Wellness Community of Greater Columbus
5500 Frantz Rd., #115
Dublin, OH

Thursday, Sept. 4th: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

For information and registration, please call: (614) 791-9510

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Finding What You Didn't Lose: Uncover Your Hidden Wholeness Through the Healing Power of Writing

Presentation Retreat and Conference Center
19480 Bear Creek Rd.
Los Gatos, CA

Friday, Sept. 12th (Evening) - Sunday, Sept. 14th (Noon)

John Fox, CPT, and Sally Z. Hare, PhD invite you to join them in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains for reflection, renewal, and connection with self and others through the healing power of writing. Grounded in Sally's years of working with Parker Palmer's formation theory, and John's extensive experience with poetry therapy, you will have an opportunity to rejoin soul and role, to reconnect who you are with what you do. This circle of trust retreat is for persons working within education, health care, psychology, law, philanthropy, religious/spiritual life, organizational leadership and nonprofit and community organizations.

For information and registration, please call Sally Hare: (843) 238-9291

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Creative Healing: Healing From the Inside

El Camino Cancer Center
2500 Grant Road
Mountain View, CA

Sunday, Oct. 26: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

John will be part of a faculty of teachers, healers, physicians and artists who have joined forces to offer this experiential day-long symposium that will provide a rich atmosphere for inviting you to engage more deeply with your authentic self - the one who desires to thrive beyond the limits of cultural and personal cancer myths, and who instinctively knows what you most need during this challenging period. Through the creative use of art, poetry, storytelling, and movement, you will have an opportunity to regain your personal power, renew your creative skills and find new answers to old problems.

For information and registration, please contact:

Dr. William Buchholz (650) 988-8011

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Poetry, Community and the Flourishing Heart

Rivendell Retreat Centre
600 Rivendell
Bowen Island, British Columbia, CANADA

Friday, Jan. 16th (2:00pm) - Sunday, January 18th (Noon)

John Fox, CPT invites you to join him on beautiful Bowen Island in British Columbia for a time of developing and sharing poems that reflect on who we are individually and collectively in community. What may be blocking and/or holding you back from meaningful connections to self and others? How can you say what you discover and know, with beauty and power? Treating these questions as threads in the tapestry that weave us together, we will discover how the responses that emerge in this tranquil, sacred place nourish and strengthen us. This retreat is sponsored by Ray McGinnis and Write to the Heart.

For information and registration, please call:

Ray McGinnis: (604) 408-4457

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