Custom Poetry / Creative Writing Workshop

Bring friends or coworkers together for a creative writing workshop, custom-designed for your group! Poetry is more than just words on a page; it's about fostering a sense of interdependence and wonder. Na Mee creates guided, approachable writing experiences that aim to deepen participants' connection with themselves, each other, and the world.

Some example workshops she’s done in the past:

Joy Writing: Using our words to cultivate delight, even amongst challenges
Poetry as Mindfulness: Building a listening relationship with ourselves and others
Practical Magic: Reflection, dreaming and magic, but make it practical

Na Mee specializes in working with people new to poetry and/or communities on the margins (e.g. treatment centers for teens, incarcerated women, transracial adoptees, etc). She designs workshops that invite people of all ages, all backgrounds, all abilities, and all levels of love-hate towards poetry, to use poetry as a tool for liberation.

Workshops have been as short as 1 hour and as long as eight week courses. What are your goals? Na Mee can sculpt a workshop to help your team move closer to them.

What people are saying.

  • "NaMee curated a fabulous collection of exercises and experiences to lead participants on a journey around our specific theme. Participants of all abilities and backgrounds were in the warm and safe care of NaMee's adept facilitation, which meant everyone felt comfortable sharing and genuinely enjoyed themselves. Students gained tangible skills around poetry yes, but also problem solving, communication, mindfulness, and finding joy in everyday life. If I could wave a magic wand, I would recreate this class for all those stuck in grief, despair, burnout, indifference, and frustration. NaMee was an absolute joy to work with!"

    — Jess Brown, Wellness Coordinator for the City and Borough of Juneau

  • "Giving me a new way to look at things. Positive reinforcement in class. Appreciation of any way you did the homework to whatever extent it was possible that week was awesome. Learning about poetry and how it can be so many things. The visual of digging deep in the sand and how we kept revisiting that, spiraling back, but not in a repetitive way, always coming back there, but with new skill or lens each time."

    — Participant

  • "This program came at a time in my life when I had a lot of stress and not a lot of healthy ways to manage it. NaMee expertly facilitated a way for me to explore the small details of my life that, put together, helped me feel less overwhelmed and have more feelings of peace and joy. I left with helpful tools to continue carrying those feelings over into my daily life. And I wrote some poems too :)"

    - Participant

Want to think about this out loud?

Let’s be brainstorm buddies! Exploratory calls are always free; let’s set one up and chat about what your group might want to learn and experience together.