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SOULSPEAK is a simplified version of ancient oral poetry. SOULSPEAK allows anyone to express their emotions in a beautiful, healing and human way. It can be learned almost instantaneously.
Once you learn it, you can teach it to others. In any way you want. We plant the seed, you make it grow.
This ancient poetry was used by our earliest ancestors, long before we learned to read and write. Sometimes called tribal poetry, it consisted of a simple story or refrain spontaneously chanted out to rhythmic music in antiphonal (speaker/ responder) fashion by the members of a tribe. It was created while the tribe moved in unison to rhythmic music. All early cultures used some form of it.
It is also a form of poetry that used all many of the separate art forms we know today (music, dance, costume, mask, storytelling, song). It is a very potent form of poetry. Most importantly, it is a form of poetry that is in our genes, much as our ability to gossip and joke are. It sounds complicated, but we already know how to do it. It simply has to be reawakened.
SOULSPEAK is especially easy to reawaken. For one thing, it only uses two aspects of tribal poetry: narrative speaking and music. In addition, only two people participate at any one time. Using SOULSPEAK techniques, they spontaneously create a story in speaker/ responder fashion to slow, rhythmic music.
Here is a transcribed example of such a spontaneous poem (less the music):
Sometimes in my dreams,
Sometimes
I see my mother.
She is looking back at me.
She has been dead now for almost 15 years.
Sometimes I forget.
She is beautiful.
She looks so young.
She is holding a basket.
I can see it.
The basket is full of secrets.
They are all colors.
Beautiful secrets, she says to me.
Her secrets.
They look like flowers.
Like roses in a window.
From far, far away
They are my secrets too.
From far, far away
From far, far away.
If You'd Like to Hear What SOULSPEAK Sounds Like :
1) You can hear poets doing SOULSPEAK on our MANY VOICES CDs. To do this, click here.
or
2) You can hear everyday people of all ages doing a simpler version of SOULSPEAK, listen to Adults In Therapy or At Risk Children.
If You'd Like to See Others Doing SOULSPEAK:
Order one of our SOULSPEAK videos. Simply click VIDEOS on the headline banner.
SOULSPEAK Creative Collaboration Programs for Students and Artists
These programs are collaborations custom-designed to give painters, musicians,
dancers, actors and other artists a means of entering the spontaneous audio/visual
world of MANY VOICES of SOULSPEAK. These collaborations work on the principle
that the soul, or collective unconscious, is the source of creative growth.
SOULSPEAK Poetry CDs, SOULSPEAK Music CDs, and SOULSPEAK Poetry Videos are the
result of such collaborations.
If you wish to know more about implementing a SOULSPEAK Creative Collaboration
Program for yourself or in conjunction with your school or organization,
The Outward Journey
of the Soul
will get you on the right path. The book can be purchased or downloaded in its
entirety for free.
Using SOULSPEAK in Your Everyday Life
If you wish to know how you can use SOULSPEAK in everyday life to express yourself with others on a deeper, more spiritual level, a level that borders on the transcendent, an exciting, informative book/CD combination (SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul ) will get you on the right path. The book can be purchased or downloaded in its entirety for free.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about integrating SOULSPEAK into your emotional and spiritual life, contact us.
SOULSPEAK Wellness Gatherings.
These experiential workshops consist of small informal groups of men and women of any age or background who wish to find a deeper, more beautiful, more spiritual way of expressing themselves. One learns SOULSPEAK simply by listening to it spoken by others. It is already within us, just as our ability to gossip and joke are within us, waiting to be awakened.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about the Gatherings, contact us.
SOULSPEAK Sensitivity Training
For Organizations
These experiential workshops are designed to help employees become more aware of the deep feelings of their fellow workers. It is unique because it works on an unconscious as well as conscious level. SOULSPEAK Sensitivity Training promotes bonding on a deeply human level. It can be used to improve racial awareness, sexual awareness and work relations in every organization.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about implementing SOULSPEAK Sensitivity Training in your organization, contact us.
SOULSPEAK in Children's Grief Counseling
SOULSPEAK has been found to be extremely effective and healing when used by children in a grief counseling process. For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about these programs, costs, references and options, contact us.
The Use of SOULSPEAK in Therapy
A Paper on Theory and Practice.
Therapeutic SOULSPEAK is a unique form of poetry therapy that uses ancient oral forms that tap into the unconscious almost effortlessly. It provides a healing, communal way of expressing the conflicts, fears, hopes and desires of the deeper self. It has been recognized by therapists as a unique and powerful adjunct to therapy, as well as an simple, ongoing technique for deep, healing self-expression that can be used in everyday life.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about this topic, contact us.
Therapeutic SOULSPEAK Programs for At-Risk Children
Therapeutic SOULSPEAK is an in-depth program that gives at-risk children a positive way to easily express deep unresolved conflicts and fears. Therapeutic SOULSPEAK taps the unconscious almost effortlessly and is learned almost instantaneously by anyone, even slow learners. No previous knowledge of poetry, or even reading and writing is required. It is healing in nature for both speakers and listeners and has been proven to dramatically increase self-esteem, self-awareness and empathy for others.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about these programs, costs, references and options, contact us.
Therapeutic SOULSPEAK Programs
for Adults in Therapy
Therapeutic SOULSPEAK for Adults in Therapy is an in-depth program designed to fit easily into any individual or group therapy format. Its major use by therapists is as an ice–breaker, a way of getting clients to begin to talk openly and freely about their problems. A secondary use is to promote emotional bonding and empathy within a group environment. The poems spoken out in Therapeutic SOULSPEAK sessions also provide an extremely accurate diagnostic tool for therapists.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about these programs, costs, references and options, contact us.
Elementary SOULSPEAK Programs
A SIMPLIFIED Version
of Therapeutic SOULSPEAK
Elementary SOULSPEAK is a highly simplified version of Therapeutic SOULSPEAK that can be easily learned by any teacher or therapist. Unlike Therapeutic SOULSPEAK, which has many strict requirements, this simple version is:
1) Written rather than spontaneously spoken
2) Is generally single-voiced
3) Uses no recording equipment.
4) There are no restrictions on group size or room type
In this sense it is very much like the poetry we know today. It can be taught in almost any group or one on one situation. Both adults and children can use this program. This has become our most popular program. There are several variations that make use of visual art and videos .
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about these programs, costs, references and options, contact us.
Therapeutic SOULSPEAK Training for Therapists.
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about these programs, costs, references and options, contact us.
SOULSPEAK Training for ESE Teachers and Counselors
For more detail, click here. Or if you want to speak to someone about these programs, costs, references and options, contact us.