The Institute for Poetic Medicine is offering a Four Part Training with Merna: Bringing Refugee & Immigrant Voices into the Community-Beginning May 14

This is a 4-part weekly series: Thursdays, May 13, May 20, May 27 & June 3, 1:30-3:30pm Pacific Time

$250 Includes - 4 weekly sessions -Toolkit & training packet

Register: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/2le4d0u/MayMernaWorkshop

Support refugees and immigrants in sharing their stories through poetry. Begin or further your work alongside newcomers to host countries with poetry, writing prompts, and exercises that open up a pathway for refugees and immigrants to tell their stories. Participants will practice using poetry to create safe space for refugees and immigrants to voice experiences of loss and trauma, and to honor homeland traditions and loved places as part of creating a bridge that welcomes them in support of their hopes for life in a new country.

Modeled from her expansive experience and Stories of Arrival program, Merna is offering this facilitator training as a 4-part series of workshops, along with an in-depth resource toolkit and training packet. Learn more about Merna and the work she does through Stories of Arrival: Refugee and Immigrant Youth Voices. https://poeticmedicine.org/partners/storiesofarrival

Session 1: Thurs. May 13, 2021  1:30-3:30 Pacific Coast Time -Writing Poems of Forced Migration and Departures

 Session 2: Thurs. May 20, 2021 1:30-3:30 Pacific Coast Time-Poetry and the Long Journeys from Home Countries

 Session 3: Thurs. May 20, 2021 1:30-3:30 Pacific Coast Time -Poems of Arrival

 Session4: Thurs. May 20, 2021 1:30-3:30 Pacific Coast Time-Poems of Belonging in Community and Hope for the Future