Heartspeak: Writing to Reconnect with Yourself
Learning how to render your experiences, intentions, and goals on the page is a form of “heartspeak.” Heartspeak helps us connect with ourselves in ways that remind us of our heart’s desires, our purpose and life calling. Writing in this way is a helpful skill because it is a means of processing joys, hurts, or anything that comes in between. Taking time to write provides us with meaningful space to reconnect with our goals in an intentional and mindful way.
Join renowned Indigenous poet, author, and motivational speaker Tanaya Winder as she weaves resilience and empowerment into her storytelling and writing exercises. This interactive session will offer writing prompts to help you tap into parts of your journey that need reexamination, compassion, and uplifting. You will learn the benefits of incorporating heartspeak into your everyday practices.
Igniting Healing through Heartwork
As educators, we engage in heartwork; we help our students understand their gifts and passions can build a better world. “Heartwork” is the work each human being is born to steward during their time on Mother Earth. Teaching others how to harness their gifts is a delicate and deliberate practice because we are living, breathing examples of what it means to be human. Teaching is a sacred relationship where we walk our talk by continuously working on our healing.
Indigenous people have undergone much historical, ancestral, and personal trauma. Sometimes, processing these traumas or soul wounds can be difficult, but one way to ignite healing is through presence and mindfulness. A grounded mindset is accessed by asking powerful questions and exploring new perspectives through reflective and expressive writing.
Join Indigenous author, artist, and motivational speaker Tanaya Winder for this interactive workshop. In it, you will work through writing prompts to help you tap into parts of your journey that you want to reexamine with compassion and kindness. You will also learn mindfulness techniques that you can implement in your workshops or classrooms. Bring your pens and something to write with as you discover how writing and the power of presence can be tools to understand the human condition regarding loving others and yourself. Explore and deepen your skill sets to plant seeds of resilience that blossom into ancestral strength and liberation.
Soul Seeds: The Power of Poetry to Re-Member
Where do stories take root? Each of us has a story and it is a story only we can tell. The voice we each have is powerful and worth sharing. Come participate in some fun and interesting writing prompts to help rediscover and strength the inner passion and voice that you have. Using Indigenous teaching metaphors you will learn that writing poetry is just like a gardening– both begin with a seed of inspiration and grow into something beautiful. It doesn’t matter what level you’re at, if you’re just starting, curious, or have been writing for years, you’ll rediscover the power of poetry in this workshop. This workshop will discuss how stories can serve as seeds to create the food that nurtures and heals. We’ll use poetry and performance to explore how the art of remembering can allow us to re-member – and put ourselves back together after rupture.
Writing to Heal:
Indigenous people have undergone much historical, ancestral, and personal trauma, as well as the traumas associated with COVID -19, mass shootings, and other recent and current events. At times it can be difficult to process these traumas or soul wounds, but one way to cope and help make sense of these events is through presence and mindfulness. A grounded mindset can be accessed through asking powerful questions and exploring new perspectives through reflective and expressive writing. Learning how to render your emotions on the page is a form of “heartspeak.” Heartspeak can be one of the most helpful skills because it is a means of processing joys, hurts, and everything in between.
This workshop offers writing prompts to help you tap into parts of your journey that you want to reexamine with compassion and kindness. You will also learn writing prompts and techniques that you can implement in your own talking/healing circles, workshops, or client sessions for ages 13 years and older. We will also cover facilitation techniques and what it means for you to create and maintain space to find light and a sense of belonging and acceptance in yourself and your communities. In the end, we hope you will discover how writing can be used as a healing tool to develop a better understanding of the human condition regarding loving others and yourself.
Unlock the Power of F.E.A.R by tapping into your F.L.O.W
How will you lean into fear to ignite healing?” is a question Tanaya seeks to answer in her music and storytelling. In this session, you will engage with powerful questions that invite you into pause and presence. What fears are involved in pursuing your goals and dreams? How can you overcome them by centering healing and growth? You’ll use Tanaya’s F.E.A.R and F.L.O.W. models to tap into your power and unlock the wise warrior within.
Tanaya Winder 