Saturday July 11, 10 am – 12 pm
Sheri Reda
Held in-person at the Center
$50, CEUs: 2

Carl Jung, in his essay on psychoanalysis and poetry, quoted Gerhard Hauptmann to say that “poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the word.” This cumbersome pronouncement is a way of saying that poetry can bring us out of the individual experience, thought, or event, and into the universal. Poetry helps us see the larger patterns in smaller events, and thus can be a way to witness, evaluate, and express. This workshop will offer techniques to encourage such expression by writing your own poems, thus allowing you to experience the liberation it affords.

About the Instructor
Sheri Reda lives in Chicago, where she works as a celebrant, public speaker, and youth librarian. She is the author of Stubborn, (LocofoChaps/Moria Press, 2017) and lead editor of Life-Cycle Ceremonies: A Handbook for Your Whole Life (Celebrant Foundation and Institute, 2015). Her poems have most recently appeared in The Examined Life Journal, Vita Poetica, and the  Locofo Anti-Trump Anthology (2025) as well as Eocene Journal of Environmental Humanities (2025, 2023. Her work has been anthologized in The Nature of Our Times (2024), and the award-winning Dear Human at the Edge of Time (Paloma Press, 2024), as well as Healers’ Burden (University of Iowa Press, 2020. Her collection of poems entitled Diaspora was published this spring through Finishing Line Press and will be available for purchase at the Jung Center.