- Location: Fraser High School
- Room: H12
- Start Date: Thursday 5th Feb, 2026.
- End Date: Thursday 26th Mar, 2026.
- Time: 6:00-8:00pm.
- 8 Weeks.
- 2 hours per week.
Find your inner poet!
Poetry as a Tool for Wellness focuses on the whole person’s wellbeing.
It’s about individuals using poetry to find meaning in their own lives, rather than understanding exactly what the author may have intended. Using Poetry as a Tool for Wellness, we create an environment of generous support and focus on how poems and words can offer healing and self-understanding. It uses imagination to provide us with a new way to look at our lives and the world around us.
Course Outline
Week 1: Using Poetry as a Tool for Wellness
Week 2: Listening to Self and Others
Week 3: Understanding, Self-Compassion, and Empathy
Week 4: Making It Real with Healthy Choices
Week 5: Overcoming Obstacles, Generating Forgiveness
Week 6: Riding the Waves of Change: Creating Hope and Transformation
Week 7: Moment-to-Moment: Being in Gratitude
Week 8: Practicing Self-Care
Bring pen and paper or your favourite notebook along to write in and keep all of your poems in one place. It doesn’t need to be fancy. A 1B5 notebook is great!
Tutors:
Gauri Nandedkar
This course is supported by the TEC (Tertiary Education Commission) to assist with literacy, numeracy and wellbeing needs of students. You must attend 80% of the class. At the same time we hope you will learn other useful and interesting skills and have a lot of fun learning with us.
