This exuberant inspiring workshop will deeply explore how poetry and the development of poetic imagination can help preserve the wild places, both without and within. Poetry can be a practice of attentiveness and deepened feeling; it can be a bridge creating intimacy, a way to speak to one’s beloved; it can also preserve and express our neglected intuitive wisdom, thereby revitalizing the hearts of individuals and communities. Through sharing of poetry and stories, through writing and discussion, we will deepen our sense of how the awakened heart and word can transfigure awareness. Join us for a cutting edge exploration of the power of language to awaken, heal and transform.