As a teaching artist Na Mee loves to design workshops that invite people of all ages and backgrounds to use poetry towards healing, connection, racial justice, and liberation.

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).

What are your goals? Na Mee can sculpt a poetry workshop to help your team access them.

Invite Na Mee to your organization as a Resident Poet! Attending key meetings and organization gatherings alongside staff, she will engage in deep listening, observation, and word collecting. Then, she will compose a group portrait poem - a Found poem using phrases that represent the spirit of the organization. She will perform the final poem live at a gathering of your choice. The portrait aims to reflect back the participants, synthesize organization values, and inspire the group's next steps. A final copy of the poem is also provided.

Na Mee's work as a poet and a teaching artist has taught her to use creative practices for all kinds of learning and mindful listening. Embodied, accessible, participatory practices activate us in ways that powerpoints and dialogue alone might not. Na Mee can co-create a session with your organization to meet many agenda goals through creative art teaching techniques. Some example sessions she has facilitated before include envisioning future work, examining our roles in racial justice, de-briefing collective experiences, and more. What are your goals?

Na Mee can lead a Poetry as Mindfulness session with your team that allows for an artistic "break" from the agenda. Poetry has the power to connect us with ourselves, each other, and the world. Na Mee can guide your team through exercises intended to build a strong, mindful, and kind relationships with themselves and beyond. This workshop can be adapted to fit other goals, too; Na Mee is happy to build the workshop that would be most effective for your group. This is an interactive practice suitable for poets and non-poets of all writing experience.