This two-session Zoom workshop invites participants to explore the profound themes of loss, healing, and transformation. Let’s journey from loss to light through the mindful practice of reading and writing poetry.
About the event
Online Face-to-Face:
First session: Thursday, June 12 2025 (19:00-20:30)
Second session: Thursday, June 26 2025 (19:00-20:30)
This workshop is recorded*
From Loss to Light: The Poetry of Grief Transformation
This two-session online workshop invites participants to explore profound themes of grief, healing, beauty, and transformation through the mindful practice of reading and writing poetry. We will examine various aspects of human emotion - from sorrow to hope and loss to renewal. This workshop encourages creative expression and imaginative thinking to foster deeper self-awareness and spiritual insight.
Each session will start with mindfulness exercises to centre the mind and heart, creating a safe space for emotional exploration. Participants will then engage in discussions of thought-provoking poetry and writing prompts to reflect on grief, healing, and spiritual growth. Finally, we will conclude with a gratitude exercise to promote ongoing healing and hope.
This workshop expands beyond traditional stories of loss and recovery, inviting participants to view grief as a catalyst for creativity, meaning, beauty, and transformation. Through poetry, we will honour the dark while reaching for the light.
About the facilitator:
Romalyn Ante FRSL is a Filipino-British poet, essayist, and editor. She was born and bred in Lipa, Philippines. In 2005, her mother – a nurse in the NHS – brought her and the whole family to the UK. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language. She was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021-2022, sits on the editorial board for Poetry London magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection, AGIMAT (Chatto & Windus), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
To book, please visit: www.romalynante.com/event-list