Poetics of Care
Writing as a path toward care, presence, and transformation
I’m María Ortega García. I accompany processes of care through therapeutic writing and poetry with individuals, communities, and educational institutions from a feminist, decolonial, and neuroinclusive lens.”
If you think that caring and writing are two different things, this is the place to change your perspective.
“What are the words you do not yet have?” — Audre Lorde
Poetry acts as a wrench when used as a tool—a means to loosen emotional nuts seized by the rust of time; it serves as a practical guide for locating the box of memories hidden in the attic of the mind, planting seeds of new meaning, or weeding out the old ones that stifle growth.
It is also a way of seeing when it becomes a way of being: a sustained presence, attention, and care; non-judgmental observation; emotional receptivity; and the ability to perceive the extraordinary in the everyday.
This is the foundation of individual, group, and community support. In the poetics of care, caring is both an action and a state that transforms both the caregiver and the one being cared for; the poetic gaze is something one inhabits, and much like kintsugi caring does not erase the wound but transforms it into a work of art.
What we do here
one-to-one sessions
For when you need a space entirely your own.
We meet online, just the two of us, with a blank page and whatever you bring to it. No agenda, no performance. Through guided writing prompts, reflection, and the slow work of paying attention, we find the words that have been waiting, and begin to understand what they’re telling you.
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group workshops
For when writing alongside others makes the silence smaller.
There is something particular that happens when a group of people write together, a solidarity, a recognition that your story is yours alone and also, in some way, shared. These online workshops offer guided therapeutic writing and poetry therapy in a contained, caring space.
