2010 Power of Words Cosponsors

We are grateful for the support and connection with our cosponsors. Without them, this event would not have been possible.




The Creative Righting Center
Poetry for Healing & Growth
On the Web at: users.erols.com/sreiter/

Within each of us there exists a "self-righting" mechanism. Just as surely as a plant will turn towards the light, our creative imagination helps us to recreate ourselves. The tree of Life is the time-honored symbol for The Creative "Righting" Center. Its roots anchor the tree to its home and access nutrients, its spine sustains us, its branches reach out in a supportive network, and its leaves are the creative blossoms of our lives.

The Creative Righting Center provides (1) a comprehensive training program in poetry therapy in accordance with the guidelines of the National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy. Please see our Training Options page for more information, (2) traditional and creative therapy methods for individuals and groups, and (3) consulting, lectures and workshops for agencies and staff training.


Goddard College
Progressive Education for Creative Minds
On the Web at: goddard.edu

Goddard specializes in low-residency education, a format that is designed to accommodate the lifestyles of working adults. Unlike online courses or traditional classes, the low-residency format offers the best of both worlds – experienced faculty advisors, on-campus residencies, and the freedom to study wherever you are.



The Institute for Poetic Medicine
To Awaken Soulfulness in the Human Voice
On the Web at: poeticmedicine.org

The Institute for Poetic Medicine offers public and private workshops, retreats and professional in-service presented by John Fox, CPT (Certified Poetry Therapist) and by other Institute partners, for groups and individuals in therapeutic, educational, healing, medical, prison and pastoral settings and professions, as well as for persons living with life-altering illnesses. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to healing body, mind, and spirit through the creative and therapeutic process of hearing and writing poetry. Our programs are wholly funded by grants, donations and collaborative arrangements with the places and people we serve.

Poems speak to us when nothing else will. Poetry helps us to feel our lives rather than be numb. The page, touched with your poem, becomes a place for painful feelings to be held, explored and transformed. Writing and reading poems is a way of seeing and naming where we have been, where we are and where we are going with our lives.



National Association for Poetry Therapy
Promoting Growth and Healing through Language, Symbol, and Story
On the Web at:  poetrytherapy.org

For the past 28 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language. We are psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. We are poets, journal keepers, storytellers, and songwriters. We are teachers, librarians, adult educators, and university professors. We are doctors, nurses, occupational/ recreational therapists; ministers, pastoral counselors, and spiritual directors. We are artists, dancers, dramatists, musicians, and writers.




Renaissance Muse
Using the Power of Words for Wellness, Healing, and Personal Growth
On the Web at: renaissancemuse.com

Renaissance Muse™ literally means the revival of our creative genius. The focus of Renaissance Muse™ is to teach individuals how to shape their experiences into transformative stories that can lead to personal change. Yvette A. Hyater-Adams, an accomplished organization development and diversity consultant, added the Renaissance Muse™ practice to her successful change management business in 2001.



Emergent Village
A Progressive Node in the Web of the Emerging Church
On the Web at: emergentvillage.com

Emergent Village is a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world.  The Emergent Village Council is a “council of practitioners” tasked with coordination of the efforts of the multiple working groups that make up Emergent Village as well as serving as the Board of Directors for the 501( c )( 3 ). They’re also pretty interesting and cool people who wear a lot of hats and bring a lot of experience in doing church to the table. They believe in God, beauty, future, and hope.


Writing Ourselves Whole
Transformative writing workshops for the San Francisco Bay Area

To express our own story changes the world. Writing is both memory and possibility at once, and in moving through and with that tension, we create change.

Founded in 2003, Writing Ourselves Whole seeks to change the world through writing. We exist in the service of transforming trauma and/or struggles around sexuality into art, and creating spaces in which individuals may come to recognize the artist/writer within. Writing Ourselves Whole's founder and facilitator, Jen Cross, is a freelance writer whose work has been published in close to thirty anthologies and periodicals. Jen has facilitated writing workshops since 2002. She received her MA in Transformative Language Arts from Goddard College, and is a certified facilitator of the Amherst Writers & Artists method.