What makes for a meaningful life? The question is often answered in reference to its absence: a longing for more love, more connection, more ease, more authenticity, more belonging—a sense that something deeper and truer is possible if only we could drop the mask long enough to dare to risk reaching for it. We may fear we’ll end our lives with the deathbed regret of so many: “I wish I’d cared less what people think and dared to be more true to myself”.

In this workshop we’ll use poetry in a new and exciting way to get to the heart of the question and beat a path to the answers. Instead of merely reading it, we’ll take lines of poetry that resonate with us, locate where they land in the body, connect them to our own lived experience, and speak them courageously into the group. What happens next is a profound experience of revelation, disarmament, and deep sense of belonging that defies explanation, returning us, through language, to a state that precedes it.

Drawing on twenty years of experience training actors and non-actors alike in the art of connection and power of ensemble, Lucinda Millward brings her Living Line Method to this intimate group workshop, engaging her sensitivity, compassion, and deep drive for authentic relating to meet the needs of both the moment and the group in a way that will offer you great care whilst emboldening you to step courageously over the threshold, out of fear and into truth.

You will not leave unmoved.

No prior experience of, or even affection for, poetry is necessary. If you are human, you have all the qualification you need.

Co-facilitated by Emma Campbell Webster and Lucinda Millward.