Making Peace with Change with Christine Ellsworth

Making Peace with Change with Christine Ellsworth

• This is a 5-meeting virtual class using the Zoom platform.
• Sundays, Jan 12, 19, 26, Feb 2, 9 
• 1-2:30 pm CT
• Our classes are taught asynchronously, which means you can watch a recording of the class later if you miss the live session.

Change is so hard. Change is scary! If change feels like that to you, join Christine Ellsworth, MA for five poetry sessions on a journey toward making peace with change. We'll wander through colorful poetry from around the world—and North Dakota—geared toward helping us identify where we came from, who we are now, and the amazing people we're becoming. All of that equals LOTS of change and transitions!

Our sessions do not constitute professional therapy. What we do is commit to come together for five weeks (because each week builds upon the previous), read some poetry and talk about it, then write some lines (prose or poetry) and share as we are moved to with the rest of the group. You may feel surprisingly more empowered and peaceful with transitions as a result.

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Christine Ellsworth has undergraduate and graduate degrees in English, is a published poet, and is in her fifth year of training to become a poetry therapy facilitator through the International Federation of Biblio-Poetry Therapy (ifbpt.org).

Sponsored by the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation

HND Value Statement

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Humanities North Dakota. However, in an increasingly polarized world, we at Humanities North Dakota believe that being open-minded is necessary to thinking critically and rationally. Therefore, our programs and classes reflect our own open-mindedness in the inquiry, seeking, and acquiring of scholars to speak at our events and teach classes for our Public University. To that end, we encourage our participants to join us in stepping outside our comfort zones and considering other perspectives and ideas by being open-minded while attending HND events featuring scholars who hold a variety of opinions, some being opposite of our own held beliefs.

Humanities North Dakota classes and events are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities