The Poetry of Your Life: The Dance Between Contemplation and Creativity  

Join us as we welcome Colette Lafia, award-winning author, spiritual director, and retreat leader.   Colette will invite us to explore poetry as both a creative and contemplative path which helps us notice the sacred moments in our daily lives. Through language, silence, and creative expression, we begin to recognize the poetry already unfolding within us. Sharing her own creative and spiritual journey, Colette speaks to the rich intersection of creativity, spiritual practice, and the inner life. This presentation offers a deeper way to see the details of our lives: as expressions of a living poem.

Colette has an international audience and her work has been featured with Spiritual Directors International, Gratefulness.org, and the Shift Network.  Her new book, Leaving the Shore: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer, is a contemplative collection of poems accompanied by sacred practices of Lectio Divina and journaling prompts.