WholeHeart Inc.
Poems as companions for listening

Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer served as featured guest of WholeHeart’s recent Poetry As Portal event online. She and Holly Wilkinson conversed about poetry as “companion” or a “living presence” that can accompany us through our most challenging days, providing passageway into our own hearts and souls. Enjoy this recap of the June event!

Poems as companions for listening
WholeHeart Inc.
Feeling the poetry of everyday life

Dru Roessle, of Danville, Vermont, brings deep insight to the WholeHeart board of directors and beyond. She works as a facilitator of groups and teams problem-solving some of society’s most intractable problems. Dru centers relational justice in the spaces she engages in, believing that we already have what we need to create just systems that are designed for care, reciprocity, and collective well-being. Enjoy this provocative, inspiring interview!

Feeling the poetry of everyday life
WholeHeart Inc.
Bringing tenderness to light

On the eve of a full moon, WholeHeart launched its newest program series, Poetry As Portal, featuring Julie Cadwallader Staub, a poet from South Burlington, Vt. More than 40 participants gathered on Zoom, March 25th, to participate in the event, part-poetry reading, part-conversation with the poet, and part-listening exercise for attendees to reflect upon their own lives.

Bringing tenderness to light
WholeHeart Inc.
Living our life like a prayer

What does it mean to live one’s life like a prayer? Heather Omand, of Huntington, Vt., is pioneering a different human way of being in the world as a Queer person, mother, partner, and caretaker of agricultural lands. Read about their insightful journey. Listen to their prose, “What Queerness Means to Me.”

Living our life like a prayer
WholeHeart Inc.
Listening to land whispers

What does it mean to be in deeper relationship with the land where one lives? Three friends spent last summer wandering in the mountains of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, coming to know the plants/medicines growing on the land, preparing meals with the foods harvested, and learning to navigate the wind and waves off the coast of Maine. This story encapsulates some of their heartfelt insights gained.

Listening to land whispers

In The Garden Together:

In The Garden Together:

In October of 2020 WholeHeart partnered with the Releaf Collective to provide facilitation framework and community building support through consultation and strategic planning. This partnership has afforded incredible synergy and growth opportunities to both communities and celebrates the power of listening, love and connection that is so intrinsic to WholeHeart’s way of being.

Listening to Voice in a Different Way

Listening to Voice in a Different Way

Welcoming multiple ways of knowing this year, the WholeHeart community has been playing with imagery, improv, music and movement to embrace the whole and the multiple voices and knowings. With gratitude, we share Tarah Gibbon's exploration as a way of encouraging us each to find and honor our ways and welcome the perspectives of others.

Here are seeds and stories of an inner and creative journey of listening and honoring one’s voice:


Redefining the Courage Within & Mapping Mindful Resilience 

Redefining the Courage Within & Mapping Mindful Resilience 

Courage is rooted in hope, and the desire for positive change. It’s a lighthouse beacon for the life we want to live, and at the same time is a handheld lantern to guide our steps along the path. Courage is not something you are waiting to do, rather it’s something you have already experienced or are living now. We’re simply finding those new words together - which will bring your bravery into focus as you chart a course for what’s next.