Poetry, Healing and Emotion, with William Ayot (70 mins)

An interactive session looking at practical ways we can better use the healing power of poetry and metaphor in therapeutic, coaching and teaching environments.

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Healers have seen poetry as a vital resource since the dawn of time. A poem’s ability to carry meaning, feeling and the keys to understanding is uncontested – but how do we use a poem to its best effect ‘in the room’?

This highly interactive session looks at practical ways we can better use the healing power of poetry and metaphor in therapeutic, coaching and teaching environments. Adding our repertoire and gaining confidence we can begin to deliver poems with pin-point accuracy.

1. Please read prior to beginning the talk
2. Part one: Introduction and explanation; different ways of using a poem in the room.
3. Part two: William shares a poem; the form of a poem helping the individual; William Blake; what is poetry; place of strong emotion vs place of tranquility.
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4. Part three: An activity; an example of an evocation poem.
5. Part four: How we might use a poem; delivery of poetry; a poem by Mary Oliver; the imagination having a shadow.
6. Part five: Writing a haiku; ‘the rapture’.
7. Part six: Sharing of haikus from particpants.
8. Part seven: Closing comments and poem.
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1. On uses of poetry; poetry, story and ritual; poetry and practice; further reading.
1. Feedback form and certificate

About this course

70 mins
Downloadable audio
CPD certificate

Speaker

William Ayot is an award-winning poet, author, teacher and ritualist. Over three decades, he has organized, hosted, facilitated and led, men’s and mixed personal development events and rites of passage, working in rehab, correctional, personal development and organizational contexts. He uses poetry and the arts to teach leadership in boardrooms and business schools around the world, currently teaching on the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD. William also designs and leads bespoke rituals for individuals and groups in his purpose-built ritual garden in Monmouthshire, Wales. Writing includes the play, Bengal Lancer, three collections of poetry, and a prose book on ritual. He is currently writing a book for and about men in a time of epochal change. William leads personal rituals for people in person, designs rituals for people from all over the world, and is available for one-to-one coaching online.