Event: Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature: This Moment Here Now
Speaker and Presenter: Bahareh Amidi
Date: 7 March, Thursday
Time: 7:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City
Bahareh Amidi, (www.Bahareh.com) the Iranian-American spiritual poet and poetry therapist in training, takes you on a journey within YOU.
Come and discover the healing power of the written word and poem making with Bahareh Amidi, based on the methodology of the Institute of Poetic Medicine, USA.
* Get to know poetry therapy and how poem-making even in its simplest form has the power to touch lives, calm the heart and mind, help you cope with depression and stress
* Listen to Bahareh’s heart-moving poetry with the music of Emma Stansfield
* Experience poetry therapy live in a short hands-on exercise – you do not need to be a poet or writer to benefit from poetry therapy
* Tips and thoughts on how you can continue to benefit from poetry therapy through sessions at work, school or a nearby cafe
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS SESSION
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* Anyone of any culture, any religion, old enough to read and write
* Anyone coping with pain, loss, separation, trauma
* Writers who are beginning their search for their voice
* Students who want to learn to express themselves better
* Caretakers and family members looking after chronic patients
* Special needs people who seek their voice and want to be heard
USEFUL LINKS
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Bahareh talks of Poetry Therapy on the prestigious TEDx Platform
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/
Detailed report on the visit of John Fox, Bahareh’s mentor and the Founder and President of the Institute of Poetic Medicine, California
http://wp.me/p1xNY1-QS
Experiencing Poetry Therapy: A blog describing the first-hand experience of Lorelei Lynn Bosson who has attended Poetry Therapy Sessions by Bahareh.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
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“My experience with Bahareh was, I expect, a pivotal moment in my life. I have shared my experience with my sister and she has bought me my first journal to write in. I carry it everywhere with me now. Her message was simple and her metaphor of sharing the light of life will stick with me forever.
Hayley Milne
English Teacher
Emirates All Girls School
Abu Dhabi
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“Words spoken resonate
Rippling through the air.
Whispers reaching a fever pitch
A lasting impression made –
Months from now memories
Will make a difference as children
Realize they are poets, too.”
Natasha Lyzanne Boukaram
Teacher
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You really made me interested and I could write a poem in a minute. When you told me that poetry is writing what you feel in a moment of life.
Mahra
Student
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CONNECT WITH BAHAREH
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For press interviews, poetry therapy sessions, school and university visits and more information, please connect with Bahareh Amidi at
Email: connect@Bahareh.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/
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