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This workshop invites participants into the practice of embodied contemplation—an approach modeled after Cole Arthur Riley’s framework in This Here Flesh. Rather than treating meditation as a mandate to empty the mind, this session reframes contemplative practice as a space to actively engage, honor, and come to terms with our personal histories, lived experiences, and core emotions.Core Workshop Focus
Creative Processing: Participants will use poetry as a tangible tool to give concrete shape to personal narratives, making complex internal experiences accessible both to themselves and to others.
Reflective Analysis: Attendees will examine various creatively portrayed stories to analyze how specific elements of craft, detail selection, and levels of vulnerability impact narrative expression.
Self-Discovery & Healing: The session provides a reflective space to pinpoint significant emotional markers and identity elements, guiding writers toward self-acceptance and healing.
Learning Outcomes
By the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to define embodied contemplation in their own words, critically evaluate vulnerability and craft in creative works, identify key emotional themes within their own lives, and complete an original creative mini-project that reflects and reinterprets a pivotal personal story.
James Daniels
James Daniels (who also writes as james solomon) is a Black Southern creative, educator, and community peacebuilder currently serving as Greensboro, North Carolina’s second Poet Laureate and the Director of Creative Writing at North Carolina A&T State University. With 15 years of experience teaching writing and hip-hop, he has published widely across journals such as Callaloo, Southern Cultures, and The Greensboro Review, as well as authoring the chapbook God-Damned Eden with Bull City Press. Beyond academia, he has spent a decade in arts organizing as the CEO of Sol Lxve Creative Studios, LLC, an executive member of the Fire and Light Collective, and the Poetry Cafe University Liaison. When not writing, teaching, or freelancing on piano for projects like Kay Marion & Neo-Symphony, he can be found video gaming, reading, spending time with loved ones, or searching for the best pizza.
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1000 Revolution Mill Dr. Suite 3, Greensboro, NC, United States, North Carolina 27405
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