Fall: A Season of Self-Preservation Poetry Workshop

In this workshop, we will collectively honor our emotions and protect our spirits as we move into Fall & Winter. Our guest facilitator, Claribel Diaz M.A, LCSW/Therapist, will speak to self-preservation from a clinical perspective as a bilingual psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience. Through the exploration of love languages, the works of Solange and Narriyah Waheed, participants will define self-preservation in relation to their own lived reality. Join us in this healing space to sharpen your pen and set intentions as the Fall & Winter seasons arrive.

About the Facilitators:

Rabih Ahmed is a Ghanaian-American Muslim poet and educator from The Bronx. Her poetry is grounded within the oral traditions and histories of the African Diaspora, binding narratives across the Atlantic. She has performed her poetry at the Apollo Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and throughout the African diaspora. In 2017, she founded LOVE LIGHT & POETRY with a mission to utilize poetry as a liberatory tool for healing and collective transformation. 

Claribel Diaz:

Poet, essayist, educator and psychoanalyst from the Dominican Republic. She went to the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, the main center for study, research, and interchange of her generation. Claribel Díaz resides in the US since 1996 and obtained a Master in Social Work in New York University. She has a trajectory of over 30 years within the practice and transmission of the clinical as well as literary experience since lived in her country as to present in the United States. She is currently the Vice-President of the Asociación Dominicana de Escritores Dominicanos -ASEDEU-

Claribel has the following and other publications: Ser del silencio/Being of Silence” (bilingual edition, 2003) “Órbita de la inquietud” (Obsidiana Press, 2010) and “Tránsito a la Vastedad” (2018). Her books of literary and psychoanalytic essays: “Vertientes de la Otredad” and “transfiguraciones”, are under edition. Her writings have been included in many Dominican and international anthologies.

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