Healing the broken heart is an action that reminds us we are designed for love. It is a civic duty, a spiritual task, and most of all, deeply human. Join award-winning writer Rev. Danté Stewart, author of Shoutin' in the Fire, and go deep into the human heart, exploring what we hold, and how our stories can be both a path inward and forward. By journeying into the paradox of grief while also not being overcome by it, we examine themes of curiosity, memory, spirituality, place, terror, and most of all, a deep commitment to endurance.
Together, we immerse ourselves in a weeklong program including reading, listening to music, meditation, call-and-response, writing blocks, embodied rituals, wandering, and exploring. We also encounter the writing of authors from James Baldwin to Mary Oliver, Homer to Anton Chekhov, Phyllis Wheatley to June Jordan, and plot a way through heartbreak and violence with the determination to face it with courage and tenderness.
This workshop is designed for anyone who has experienced heartbreak in its many forms, are exploring what it is and what it does, and how heartbreak can be the connective tissue between hopes and our stories.
