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The Alchemy of Poetry - Discovering inner wisdom through Image, Imagination and Verse

  • The Orange Senior Center 32205 Chagrin Boulevard Pepper Pike, OH, 44124 United States (map)

Are you ready to encounter the vivid, sometimes baffling images that arise from your unconscious? These are the same forces that animate dreams, poetry, and art—and, like alchemy, they carry the potential for deep personal transformation.

Join Vicki Milnark, Art Therapist and Counselor, for an engaging, experiential session designed to help you explore your inner landscape. Drawing on a well-established poetry therapy approach, Vicki will guide participants through Active Imagination, a Jungian method for entering into dialogue with inner images and sources of wisdom.

In this interactive session, you will be invited to:

  • Tune In — Begin with a guided body scan to ground yourself and quiet the mind

  • Discover — Allow a meaningful inner image to emerge

  • Connect — Enter into a living conversation with this image as a guide

  • Deepen — Expand and explore the image to uncover its transformative message

  • Create — Conclude by crafting a poem that gives voice to the wisdom you have encountered

This session offers a supportive, reflective space for curiosity, creativity, and self-discovery. No prior experience with poetry or Jungian psychology is required. Please bring writing materials to this event.

Workshop: The Alchemy of Poetry
from $30.00
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