Join poet, spoken word artist, playwright and workshop facilitator Sukina Pilgrim for The Art of Speaking from the Heart a journey using poetry to access the voice of the heart.

In this four week course we will walk through a series of writing exercises to help you uncover and access your creative voice and deepen your writing practice helping you to discover your own beautiful poetry that is in alignment with your true authentic voice.

Participants will engage in writing exercises, discussions and mindful practices designed to activate the heart and ignite it’s voice. So often we silence inner voice, preferring the rationale of the mind over the communication of the heart but this course will begin the process of tuning into what the heart has to say; and it certainly has much a lot to say.

This workshop is about taking a journey into yourself to honour your inner voice.

The Course:

Week 1) Awakening the Inner Voice

In this session we will be looking at how poetry can be used to cultivate your authentic voice and deepen your capacity to express your truth.

Sunday 10th January 2021 3pm (GMT) or

Wednesday 13th January 2021 6:30pm (GMT)

Week 2) Journeying Back to Self

In this session we will use poetry to explore the concept of home, tribe and belonging to oneself.

Sunday 17th January 2021 3pm (GMT) or

Wednesday 20th January 2021 6:30pm (GMT)

Week 3) The Healing Power of Poetry

In this session we will explore ways in which the process of poetry writing has the potential to heal and bring about wellbeing.

Sunday 24th January 2021 3pm (GMT) or

Wednesday 27th January 2021 6:30pm (GMT)

Week 4) Conversations from the Spiritual Heart

In this session we will explore ways in which poetry can be used to awaken your heart to cultivate your spiritual voice.

Sunday 31st January 2021 3pm (GMT) or

Wednesday 3rd February 2021 6:30pm (GMT)

Each session will generate 3-4 poems (or pieces of poems for you to work on afterwards)

What to Expect:

Writing Skills and Techniques

Inspiring Creative Writing Exercises

Group Discussions

Confidence Building

Positive feedback

Community & Connection

This workshop is open to writers of every level. No experience is necessary.

Each session there will be 2 hours teaching and half an hour for sharing

Please note: This workshop will run on Sundays and will be repeated on Wednesdays so you have the choice of a weekend of a midweek class.

Sukina Pilgrim's Biography

Sukina Pilgrim is a Poet, Spoken-Word artist, Playwright, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organiser. She has facilitated creative writing workshops across the world empowering communities to use the written word as a tool for dialogue and as a means for accessing their authentic voice. She has launched a workshop series called The Art of Speaking from the Heart and that she has delivered around the world. She has played an intrinsic role within the British Muslim creative communities as a performer and events organiser and has created platforms for many national and international Muslim artists to express themselves and launch their careers. She was the Project Manager of a Muslim Sufi centre in London called Rumi’s Cave where she organised Islamic courses, lectures, workshops, art exhibitions and co-led spiritual retreats in the UK, Spain and Turkey

Her work has been featured on the BBC News, World Service, ITV, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera and has been written about in the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, The New Statemen many other international media outlets. In March 2015 Al Jazeera screened a documentary about her group called Hip Hop Hijabis. Sukina made her theatre debut in 2016 in a production called Malcolm X at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels which was critically acclaimed and her first play Afropean /Human Being premiered at the Theatre in February 2020. In 2017 she delivered a Tedx Talk on the healing potential of poetry. Sukina holds a she holds a BA (Hons) Degree in English Literature and Caribbean Studies and is currently pursuing an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes.