poetrymentor
10-08-2009, 04:45 PM
Clear mind wild Heart: Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry<o:p></o:p>https://www.noetic.org/page_images/logo.gif
David Whyte
November 20 – 21, 2009
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Transformative Learning Weekend Workshop Series
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Petaluma, California
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For More information:
707-779-8202
email: [email protected] ([email protected])
www.noetic.org/transformlearning (https://www.noetic.org/transformlearning)
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Throughout the ages, the language of poetry has held a special power to lend us courage, to give us the vision of those who endured and to hazard ourselves boldly in the world we must inhabit. The insights and imagery of poetry can take us beyond any small perimeter we have made for ourselves and call us to look life straight in the eyes. Once we establish ourselves at this conversational frontier, we find ourselves living amidst revelation, the recipients of visible and invisible help we could not previously recognize. Poetry tells us we can not only be found by a greater world, but also enlarge ourselves to become a participating element in that new future.
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Great poetry tells us that the stakes in life are very high and that failure is possible, yet it does not treat living as a burden. Suffering has its place in any human life, and in many ways is inescapable, yet it is also the hallmark of our incarnation, and one of the tasks of poetry is to show us how to walk into the middle of it and make a home, thus emboldening and deepening our generosity to others.
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This workshop should be a time to engage with the frontier on which we find ourselves at this particular point in our lives, to understand again the very personal nature of our conversation with the future and to strike out boldly for that horizon.
[David Whyte is a poet, author and lecturer, who grew up among the hills and valleys of Yorkshire, England. A captivating speaker with a compelling blend of profound poetry and insightful commentary, he is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology, and is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of six volumes of poetry and three books of prose. He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwestern United States. www.davidwhyte.com (https://www.davidwhyte.com)
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David Whyte
November 20 – 21, 2009
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Transformative Learning Weekend Workshop Series
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Petaluma, California
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For More information:
707-779-8202
email: [email protected] ([email protected])
www.noetic.org/transformlearning (https://www.noetic.org/transformlearning)
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Throughout the ages, the language of poetry has held a special power to lend us courage, to give us the vision of those who endured and to hazard ourselves boldly in the world we must inhabit. The insights and imagery of poetry can take us beyond any small perimeter we have made for ourselves and call us to look life straight in the eyes. Once we establish ourselves at this conversational frontier, we find ourselves living amidst revelation, the recipients of visible and invisible help we could not previously recognize. Poetry tells us we can not only be found by a greater world, but also enlarge ourselves to become a participating element in that new future.
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Great poetry tells us that the stakes in life are very high and that failure is possible, yet it does not treat living as a burden. Suffering has its place in any human life, and in many ways is inescapable, yet it is also the hallmark of our incarnation, and one of the tasks of poetry is to show us how to walk into the middle of it and make a home, thus emboldening and deepening our generosity to others.
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This workshop should be a time to engage with the frontier on which we find ourselves at this particular point in our lives, to understand again the very personal nature of our conversation with the future and to strike out boldly for that horizon.
[David Whyte is a poet, author and lecturer, who grew up among the hills and valleys of Yorkshire, England. A captivating speaker with a compelling blend of profound poetry and insightful commentary, he is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology, and is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of six volumes of poetry and three books of prose. He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwestern United States. www.davidwhyte.com (https://www.davidwhyte.com)
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