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2009 Certification Committee Mtg Albuquerque, NM
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JOHN FOX, CPT
John F
ox is a poet and certified poetry therapist. He is adjunct associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. He teaches regularly in the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, California, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California and through the Sophia Center for Culture & Spirituality at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA.
John is author of Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-making and Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making and numerous essays. He is a contributor to Whole Person Health Care, published by Praeger/Greenwood. John is featured in the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & the Art of Medicine, a film about introducing poetry and the creative arts into hospital settings. His essays are featured in many books.
John has worked with pastoral care teams and students at Loudes Medical Center in Camden, NJ, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Hosital in Spokane, WA, Parkland Hospital in Dallas, TX, among others. He works at cancer and wellness centers throughout the United States. John has taught in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Kuwait, South Korea, and Canada.
He is the past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy 2003 - 2005. He is President of The Institute for Poetic Medicine, a nonprofit he founded in 2005. John lives in Mountain View, California. You can find out more about his work at www.poeticmedicine.org.
Workshop Description:
Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-making
Approached as transformational process, expressive writing and poem-making is healing. John is widely-experienced in the application of “poetry as healer” to the fields of medicine, education, pastoral care, psychology, cancer wellness and social justice.
John brings a profound respect for the place of deep listening to enrich and spiritualize human relationships. By introducing the use of expressive writing within a context of safety and welcome, people’s words lean toward prayer-like expression.
Drawing from a splendid range of sources, you will experiment with poetic tools of metaphor, sound, rhythm, imagery and symbol as remedies to connect with your wholeness and live with greater heart.
Poetic language and speaking that language aloud acts like a revived capillary that relieves numbness returning feeling to your life and to the life of community.
The word “reclaim” comes from a Latin word, “reclamaré” — which means to “cry out.” Poetic language allows a person to cry out with a full range of feeling. A healing poem is a place for insight, a spark that lights up connections within and without.