This workshop invites you into a safe and nourishing cauldron of writing energy, where words evoke healing. Together we will engage our health through meditation, breath, and writing practices that cultivate fortitude, strength, and gratitude. We will explore what health truly means—listening closely to the wisdom of our bodies. Through guided prompts, we’ll dialogue with our herbal allies, body parts, organs, illnesses, symptoms, caretakers, even our pain and discomfort—recognizing them as teachers. This workshop offers a crucible where survival wisdom can crystallize, no matter the challenges. Bring a notebook and a pen you love to write with.

You will experience:

· Writing as a way to deepen your healing process

· Dialogues with body parts, symptoms, or plant allies

· A pause from ordinary time to listen inward

· Spontaneous timed writing that captures raw truths

· A supportive space to be vulnerable, witnessed, and surprised by what emerges

· Slowing down to allow what is deeper to surface

Julene's Bio

Julene Tripp Weaver is a licensed psychotherapist and certified herbalist in the Wise Woman Tradition. Her fourth poetry book, Slow Now with Clear Skies, was published by MoonPath Press (2024). Her third poetry book, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (2017) won the Bisexual Book Award, four Human Relations Indie Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Widely published and anthologized, she lives in Seattle and is writing her memoir about surviving AIDS. She led Muse to Write groups integrating Continuum-based movement and writing for over ten years.