Creative Healing
With Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D.As the work of many writers attests and as scientists are beginning to prove, writing and creativity can help us move past trauma and into more creative, productive lives. Drawing from Cassie Premo Steele’s book, "We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua and The Poetry of Witness," as well as her award-winning poetry which hundreds of listeners have enjoyed in dozens of her audio tracks and live classes on Insight Timer, this course will introduce participants to strategies for writing their way out of their painful pasts through creative work and allow them to use writing, creativity, and meditation as ways of healing. Over the course of 10 classes, participants will be guided by an award-winning teacher in a comfortable, workshop-style setting that is participatory and interactive. Each class meeting will combine the opportunity to reflect on how writing, meditation, and creative healing exercises help us bear witness to our survival and lead us away from self-doubt and silence and toward our own inner wisdom and strong voice. As with all of Cassie Premo Steele’s teachings on Insight Timer, writing will be kept private, and all efforts will be made to ensure that the class creates a place of trust and safety. Unlike in many writing and art classes, there will be no judgment or critique but instead, the class will support each person’s efforts to journey from pain and into healing.
Reflect on how writing, meditation, and creative healing exercises help us bear witness to our survival and lead us away from self-doubt and silence and toward our own inner wisdom and strong voice.
About this course
As the work of many writers attests and as scientists are beginning to prove, writing and creativity can help us move past trauma and into more creative, productive lives. Drawing from Cassie Premo Steele’s book, "We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua and The Poetry of Witness," as well as her award-winning poetry which hundreds of listeners have enjoyed in dozens of her audio tracks and live classes on Insight Timer, this course will introduce participants to strategies for writing their way out of their painful pasts through creative work and allow them to use writing, creativity, and meditation as ways of healing. Over the course of 10 classes, participants will be guided by an award-winning teacher in a comfortable, workshop-style setting that is participatory and interactive. Each class meeting will combine the opportunity to reflect on how writing, meditation, and creative healing exercises help us bear witness to our survival and lead us away from self-doubt and silence and toward our own inner wisdom and strong voice. As with all of Cassie Premo Steele’s teachings on Insight Timer, writing will be kept private, and all efforts will be made to ensure that the class creates a place of trust and safety. Unlike in many writing and art classes, there will be no judgment or critique but instead, the class will support each person’s efforts to journey from pain and into healing.
Meet your Teacher
Cassie Premo Steele is a lesbian, ecofeminist, mother, poet, novelist, and essayist whose writing focuses on the themes of trauma, healing, creativity, mindfulness, and the environment. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Cassie has published 19 books, including 7 books of poetry and the widely praised scholarly study on trauma and poetry titled "We Heal from Memory." She has taught in university and community settings for 30 years. Cassie was a finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award judged by the current US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and she is a recipient of the Archibald Rutledge Prize named after the first Poet Laureate of South Carolina, where she lives with her wife.