Lived, Embodied, & Inherited Stories Led By Merle Geode

Saturdays, February 5th - February 26th, 2022 | 4 PM ET - 7 PM ET

Tuition | $200.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

Storytellers will incorporate shamanic methods to access helping ancestors and other spirit guides to engage with stories as medicine. Participants will be given tools to be active facilitators in that healing through shamanic journeys and rituals to unfold the lived and embodied stories that are calling for a shift: shedding the stories that do not serve as well as stepping into a “new story” full of greater possibilities.

About the Faculty: Merle Geode (they/them) is a mixed race Korean/white disabled, nonbinary poet, writer, shamanic practitioner, and multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, MN. They have a B.S. degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where they were a UW-Madison Writing Fellow. They are currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and a mentor in the Write Like Us program for BIPOC writers across five Twin Cities-area community colleges. Their work appears in Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge and Resilience; MNArtists; and poetry.onl. Currently, they are working on a picture book about anticipatory grief and death as an author/illustrator. They were a 2019 Loft Literary Center Mirrors & Windows Fellow during which they focused on this book project.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.