Falling in Love with the Broken World: An Open-Hearted Poetic Experience

Sometimes, in our most desperate moments, we find an impossible invitation—the invitation to praise. How can this be? How, when we are undone by heartache, can we at the same time celebrate some aspect of life? And how, is it possible, can we celebrate the desperation itself? How do we turn toward what hurts and stay open to beauty, wonder, love? Poems can be remarkable vessels, inviting us to embody paradox, opening to the full spectrum of feeling all at once. In this playful, intimate program, Rosemerry will share poems that model how our writing might expand our ideas of what is possible, then invite participants to write their own poems that alchemize their own lives, then talk about process. Sharing will be optional. Bring your skeptical self, and your willingness to be astonished, too. We’ll play. All levels of experience welcome!

See Rosemerry in her TED Talk:

This season we offer you a new way to engage--our Friday evenings will have more audience engagement and participation. You will have the opportunity that evening to begin what we will dive into fully the next day, Saturday, in embodied, highly interactive exploration and practice--together!

It follows Jung's process of alchemy as the compensation for our intense focus on the rational world. He believed alchemy to be the symbolic mirror of our psychological journey into wholeness and self-realization.

Consider investing in yourself each month, this season. Consider giving yourself an entire immersive transformational experience with like-minded, like-hearted community. Renew your heart and soul. Dive and play with us, as Jung himself did, in the the ether of soul and self. We will be weaving Jung's teachings deeply into our explorations. And we will be alchemizing what is ready in our lives to become "gold."

Friday Evening: Falling in Love with the Broken World:

A Wide-Eyed Open-Hearted Poetic Experience

Immersive Evening (or choose the from the workshop ticket options)

Friday, March 6th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

UMOCA Theater

20 S. West Temple, SLC UT

Opening Poet: tba

Live Music: tba

Local Artist: tba

Saturday: Love in a Broken World: A Wide-Eyed Open-Hearted Poetic Experience

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1733091476259?aff=oddtdtcreator

Depth Workshop (or choose the from the workshop ticket options)

Saturday, March 7th, 12:00m – 5:00 pm

Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

1719 S. Main Street, SLC UT

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Friday Only: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Free for Members)

Entire Weekend: $70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE! .

Saturday Only: $75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available (Members $50)

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Schedule: Friday Immersive Evening

6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle

7:00 – 8:30 pm: Interactive Alchemy event with the Jung Board

8:30 – 9:00 pm: Community Social

Schedule: Saturday Depth Workshop

11:45 arrive at Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

12:00 – 5:00 pm: Begin Depth Workshop

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1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)

Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!

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About Our Presenter:

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice. Her poetry albums include Dark Praise, which explores “endarkenment,” and Risking Love, which explores loving even when it seems impossible. Both are available anywhere you listen to music.

She also co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process), Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal), and Soul Writer’s Circle. Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, on Carnegie Hall stage, and on river rocks she leaves around town. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding.

In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through the voice of poetry. Themes in her writings include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving and failure, grief, and daily life. She’s been an organic fruit grower, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a parent educator for Parents as Teachers. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison.

Her three-word mantra: I’m still learning, and, if limited to one: Adjust.

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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Goldenbraid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, Vivia Baldwin, and Piers Adrian.

Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, Christian West Photography & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy, Atlas Tea Company

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