Jacky Power Poetry Workshop - Permission to Feel Free From Shame

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This poetry workshop takes place at Pippbrook House, Reigate Road, Dorking, RH4 1SH Therapeutic poet and trauma therapist (MSc Addiction Psychology & Counselling, MBACP, EFTi), Jacky Power, returns to Pippbrook House with her new "Permission to Feel" workshop series. Shame is the emotion that tells us we are not just someone who made a mistake, we are the mistake. And because shame survives by staying hidden, we become experts at keeping it that way. We say 'never mind'. We put on the smile we 'honed for show'. We burn alone in a silent chant of 'I am wrong’, and somehow, that chant starts to feel like the truth. What if, instead of silence, we made some noise about it? This workshop takes a different approach to shame. Rather than talking about it, which can feel exposing before you're ready, we begin in the body. We'll make sound. We'll find our own language for the feeling. We’ll move from a silent chant of 'I am wrong' to the truth, a reclamation: 'I am human'. Using nonsense chanting, creative writing, powerful visual and poetry prompts, this supportive workshop will explore: What shame actually is, and how it differs from guilt Where we learned to hide, and what it cost us How to externalise shame so it stops feeling like your identity How to move from the shame narrative to something truer No writing experience needed.

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