The WCC Workshop Method is seemingly incredibly simple, but a lot of thought went into creating a process where you experience the deep humanity of others in a protected space, where everyone is valued, where everyone is given unconditional positive regard, and where you’re really touching on the things that are fundamental to being human.

We are all poets, in our origins, our depths, our dreams for ourselves and the world.

The workshops that generated the pieces in the anthologies create fertile soil for poetry and the expression of the human spirit. To bridge isolation, to truly connect authentically in real time, that is a gift.

Two indigenous individuals wrote about being separated at a young age, their writing similar of memory. The writing powerful with visual impact. Six children were removed, as it turns out they were siblings, who were so young, and so broken. After that magical workshop we witnessed firsthand the reuniting of those two children. They became fixtures for some time encouraging other aboriginal writers, to share their stories, and their lives. We learned about sacred land and the reparation of separation.

In a WCC workshop, I witnessed two brothers who had not spoken but were in the same shelter, both gang members from different gangs, embrace each other after sharing stories about growing up and the abandonment of their mother, friends, the system.