Metaphor & Renewal
– 8-Week Poetry Writing Workshop (Online)

Questions about this workshop? Contact christine@9creativelives.com

When:
Mondays, February 24th – April 7th, 2025
from 5:30-7:45pm PT

Where: Online, over zoom

Workshop Description:
In this workshop, you’ll explore the metaphors that have shaped your experience, and then you’ll harness your creativity to write new, imaginative metaphors that will breathe new life into the way you see the world. These new metaphors are the seed from which the poetry you write every week will be born.

Voice into Poetry – 7-Week Poetry Writing Workshop
with an exploration of public speaking (IN PERSON)

Questions about this workshop? Contact christine@9creativelives.com

When:
Tuesdays, February 25th – April 8th 2025
from 6:30 – 8:30pm PT

Where:
IN-PERSON | The Gallery @ Artech, 336 E 1st Ave Vancouver

Workshop Description:
How do you feel about your voice? How does it feel to speak out loud what resides within your internal world? When you apologize, speak up for what you believe in, use your voice to be playful… what arises within you?

Join a small group of six for a rich and compassionate exploration of voice using poetry as your tool and companion.

Breathexperience Breath Class – 4 Weeks (online)

When: TBA

Interested in attending this class? Fill out this form.

In this style of breath work, we bring our awareness to the sensation of the movement of our breath, and learn to allow it to come and go on its own, without our control.

Too often the focus is only on how to control the breath to get a specific result. There is a place for this. But Ilse Middendorf, the founder of this work, felt there should also be a place to explore our relationship to the allowed breath; the breath that moves as it will, so long as we soften our judgement on whether it is right or wrong, are willing to meet our patterns of holding (the ways we habitually hold and control the breath), and bring to any discomfort our patience and curiosity.

In its essence, this style of breath work is all about reacquainting you with this moving, consistently changing breath that has always been with you.

As your facilitator, I won’t be teaching you how to breathe, but will rather offer you entrances to experience your breath as it is now, and now, and now. 

Develop a Writing Ritual – 10-week writing accountability group

Questions about this workshop? Contact christine@9creativelives.com

When:
TBA

Interested in attending this class? Fill out this form.

Where:
Online, Over Zoom

Workshop Description:
Develop a creative writing ritual and start to integrate it into your life in a way that is both sustainable and nourishing. You’ll start the term by choosing a writing goal, and then over the course of the program you’ll begin to move through buried blocks to your creativity and create work that is meaningful to you.

Whether your child is a little shy and wanting to break out of their shell, or full of confidence and looking to develop as a performer: Speech Arts public speaking classes for kids and teens will support them to achieve their goals.

• Fall Term: September 24th – December 20th 2024 (13 classes)
• Winter Term: Jan 8th – March 14th 2025 (10 classes)
• Spring Term: April 1st – June 27th 2025 (13 classes)

“Every time I hear the laughter and conversation from her and my daughter in their class, I feel we are so blessed to have her as one of my daughter’s learning guides.”
– Yew