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

Becoming Our True Selves: Courage Cohort Reflections

Becoming Our True Selves: Courage Cohort Reflections

This month WholeHeart invites in voices from the Courage Cohort. Throughout this year, the cohort explored various themes, including observing and experiencing seasons, self-care/community care, holding tension and grief in practice and communion with themselves and each other. A special thanks to co - facilitators Ally and Rob for sharing a taste of cohort practices as well as the love with which they hold and tend to this community and space - and for the voices of the cohort.

Weavings from the WholeHeart Community Gathering

Weavings from the WholeHeart Community Gathering

How do we weave welcome and kindness into the world? By taking the time to listen, really listen to one another. Listening can be short or spacious. The intention to wonder and care sets the tone and makes the difference. We invite you to read this month's blog post from the June WholeHeart Community Gathering where we collectively mapped what welcomes one another. Try carrying this question in your pocket - what welcomes? and see what arrives!