
One of the powers of poetry is to establish an inner imaginative discipline that allows us to live a fiercer, more courageous, simpler life at the center of momentous events and besieging circumstances - to create a more beautiful mind, to find a clearer focus, to work from a surer internal foundation, all the while cultivating a sense of humor and celebration that binds the powers of the individual to the larger community.
Burren College of Art, County Clare, Ireland
May 30

The essence of what we are, as the foundation for what we can become. A seven month in-person course on Conversational Leadership.
The Whidbey Institute
October 2025, February and April 2026


Jul 12, 19, 26 - 2026
Join David Whyte for Three Sundays in July, looking at all the visible and invisible endings that mark a human life and that, when approached with the right insight, the right perspective and often surprisingly small but courageous acts of letting go, provide us with the new beginning we need. July 12th, 19th and 26th 2026.