Instructor: Liz Whiteacre
Dates: 4 Tuesdays: October 29; November 5, 12, 19
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $100 Nonmembers, $64 Writer/Reader Members, $56 Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian Members

Ever feel frustrated facing obstacles during your day? Overwhelmed? Low energy? We all face life stressors that deplete our resilience. This can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction with life, burnout, and hopelessness. Research demonstrates that resilience is a key factor to peoples’ abilities to productively rebound from obstacles because it is a cultivated quality that helps us thrive despite adversity.

Developing resilience by practicing flexibility when we recognize obstacles and adjusting our responses, we prepare ourselves to better withstand future obstacles and how we can help others do this too. Stronger resilience can lead to increased feelings of life satisfaction and wellness.

Research shows us that poetry offers us an effective tool to strengthen resilience when people use it to explore how past challenges we’ve faced can prepare us to face future challenges, which reduces stress and strengthens our coping skills as well as boosts our communication skills.

In this 4-week poetry workshop, we will discuss and write poems together that focus on resilience, exploring what makes us resilient, boosting our creativity, and strengthening our communication skills to making frustrating moments pass more quickly, improve our general wellness, and help people we engage with become more resilient too!

We offer financial aid and payment plans. Please email edu@indianawriters.org for more information.