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We are so happy to continue to support the inspiring work of The Children’s Forest and now they are launching a wonderful online course. The Children’s Forest explains more about the course below:

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~ Philip Larkin

Wishing everyone a joyful Beltane and a peaceful Samhain! /|\

There is a wonderful event from spiritual psychologist, author and poet Steve Taylor that is being offered by the Shift Network. I feel sure it will resonate with many walking the Bardic spiritual path. Below, The Shift Network explains a little more about the event and provides a link of where to register: 

Poetry has long been one of the most beloved pathways into spiritual awakening, as well as one of its most beautiful expressions.

In the ecstatic poetry of Rumi and Hafiz, for example, you can see how it opens portals into the infinite.

If you’ve ever been thrilled by the mystical truth in a poem, you too can open that devotional current in your own life by engaging with poetry as a path of spiritual evolution.

That’s why we’re excited to introduce you to author, poet, and spiritual teacher Steve Taylor, PhD…

… whose work with poetry has helped thousands of people experience a deeper sense of presence, meaning, and creative flow.

For more than two decades, Steve has explored the connection between psychology and spiritual awakening, writing bestsellers, including four books on spiritual poetry and his latest, Back to Stillness.

A senior lecturer in psychology and a former chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, he’s spent decades exploring how spiritual awakening unfolds in ordinary life.

His work has been recognized by Eckhart Tolle as an important contribution to the global shift in consciousness and we’re excited to introduce you to Steve in a free video event: Awaken Through Poetry: How Spiritual Presence Cultivates Creative Flow and a More Vivid Life Experience 

In this illuminating hour, Steve will explore the intersection of spiritual awakening, creativity, and poetry.

He’ll share how, as the mind grows quieter, your experience of life can become more vivid and immediate, and what once felt ordinary may start to shimmer with meaning, feeling, and insight.

Steve will offer some of his own spiritual poetry and guide you through a meditation designed to quiet the mental commentary.

He’ll introduce the ancient poetic form of haiku and invite you to write one yourself, if you choose — not as a technical exercise, but as a simple way of expressing the absolute essence of what you’re actually sensing in the moment.

You can find all the details and register here for Awaken Through Poetry:  https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/atprPCG/a26285/ 

In this illuminating event, you’ll explore:

• Why poetry and spiritual insight have always traveled together — and how seeing their words through this lens can deepen your own experience of them both
• How poetic inspiration often arises naturally from moments of spiritual epiphany — revealing creativity as a natural expression of awakening, rather than something you have to force
• How awakening reconnects you with your “poetic muse” — the impulse to express what you’re discovering about life, meaning, and your own inner world
• The key qualities that tend to emerge as awakening unfolds — including gratitude, acceptance, compassion, and a recognition of oneness — and why cultivating these qualities can allow beauty and wisdom to appear in places you may have overlooked before
• A new way to see creativity and spiritual growth as part of the same process — where writing a few honest lines can help bring what you’re discovering into clearer focus

You may discover that creativity doesn’t need to be forced. You don’t need to be a poet, or have ever written a poem before!

A poem becomes a way of embodying a brief instant when the world suddenly feels alive, pulsing, and more intimate — and recognizing yourself as inseparable from it.