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Many Voices, Many Places: Poetry Therapy as a Multicultural Experience with a Group of HIV Positive Men
with Kathi Brown-Favrot
This experiential workshop will explore how poetry, prose and visual arts from many cultures can be used as the core material for a poetry therapy group. The exercises we will do in this workshop will use some of this material to demonstrate how voices from many cultures can stimulate and inspire, encouraging self-discovery, a sense of community within the group, and individual growth.
About Kathi Brown-Favrot: Kathi Brown-Favrot RN, MBA, MFA Kathi grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She now lives near Sacramento, CA. As a nurse she has worked in the specialties of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and for the past 9 years HIV/AIDS. For the past 3 1/2 years she has facilitated a poetry therapy group of HIV positive men. She has also facilitated a group of HIV positive women. She has used poetry therapy as part of a training program for volunteers working with AIDS patients, with groups of nurse managers and with cancer patients. She is an AIDS educator who has presented nationally and internationally on HIV and on the use of poetry therapy to enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV. Kathi is working on her RPT. She writes poetry, fiction and is a sometimes journalist writing about HIV/AIDS including reporting on the world AIDS conferences in Geneva and Durban. |