Depth Workshop-Love in a Broken World: An Open-Hearted Poetic Experience

Workshop Summary

In our Saturday workshop, Rosemerry will bring us deeper into the invitation and experience of a heart broken open–of honest telling and of exploring our own remarkable poetry asking to be expressed as we alchemize our lives.

Rosemerry has many years experience leading profound and engaging workshops that open participants to their greatest poetic voice and the inner artist asking to express the often inexpressible truths of their lives.

Accept the invitation of a heart broken open–of honest telling and exploring our own remarkable poetry to alchemize the beautiful, difficult, and painful experiences of our lives into grace, peace, acceptance and perhaps... joy.

Schedule: Saturday

Love in a Broken World: Invitation to a Wide-Eyed, Open-Hearted Poetic Experience

11:45 arrive at Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

12:00– 5:00 pm: Depth Workshop begins

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5 CEUs included for Utah Mental Health Professionals

Tuition

$70 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day (if available)

Professional Members save $20 (Promo Code: PROMEMBER)

Interested in this topic? Join us for the opening event Friday evening!

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About our Workshop Facilitator:

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice. Her poetry albums include Dark Praise, which explores “endarkenment,” and Risking Love, which explores loving even when it seems impossible. Both are available anywhere you listen to music.

She also co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process), Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal), and Soul Writer’s Circle. Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, on Carnegie Hall stage, and on river rocks she leaves around town. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding.

In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through the voice of poetry. Themes in her writings include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving and failure, grief, and daily life. She’s been an organic fruit grower, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a parent educator for Parents as Teachers. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison.

Her three-word mantra: I’m still learning, and, if limited to one: Adjust.

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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Goldenbraid Books, Fallow Renewal, Vivia Baldwin & Piers Adrian

Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, Christian West Photography & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy, Atlas Tea Company