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What is SOULSPEAK?
SOULSPEAK is a simplified, contemporary version of an ancient form of oral poetry used by our earliest ancestors, long before we learned to read and write. SOULSPEAK allows anyone to express his or her emotions in a beautiful, healing and human way. It is can be learned almost instantaneously, by ANYONE. Once you learn it, you can teach it to others. In any way you want. We plant the seed, you make it grow. SOULSPEAK consists of a simple story or refrain spontaneously spoken out to rhythmic music in antiphonal (speaker/ responder) fashion. This inborn, communal, spoken poetry has the unique ability to tap into the collective unconscious, or group soul, where we are always together. SOULSPEAK is a very beautiful, healing form of poetry, and very close to prayer. Most importantly, it is a part of our human nature, much as our ability to gossip and joke are. It sounds complicated, but we already know how to do it. It simply has to be reawakened. Let us help you. Some History Behind Our SOULSPEAK and our Programs SOULSPEAK was originally founded as SOULSPEAK/Sarasota Poetry Theatre, and there are a number of programs and activities available to those who are interested.
SOULSPEAK has a sound like no other. It is the sound of the soul speaking. The body instinctively recognizes it as something very close to prayer. You can hear the sound of SOULSPEAK in the CDs recorded by our group, MANY VOICES of SOULSPEAK. Some of them are on Radio SOULSPEAK. Many others can be downloaded free from our web page. The oral, multi-voiced, musical poetry created by MANY VOICES is a contemporary adaptation of pre-literate, multi-voiced, musical poetry. We see poetry as those moments when the soul, or unconscious, the dreaming self, the part of us we can't control, joins with the conscious self to sing the soul's song. As a result, our poetry takes the form of audio CDs, soundtracks, and videos as well as conventional text publications. Some of our videos are documentaries on the use of SOULSPEAK, and some are art videos that we consider visual poems. All can be ordered from our web page www.SOULSPEAK.org. A good part of these can be can be downloaded free of charge. Visit us. SOULSPEAK, which is also the name of our non-profit organization, was founded by poet/artist Justin Spring with the help of fellow poet/dancer/artist Scylla Liscombe in 1992. The founders believe that the spontaneous, communal speaking of poetry is an instinctive human act that can be re-awakened in anyone who is willing to surrender to it. We call our contemporary adaptation of that poetry SOULSPEAK. It is a primal, largely unconscious, poetry that is close to prayer not only in its beauty, and felt truth, but also in its ability to heal deep emotional wounds. We run many SOULSPEAK programs for at-risk children and adults-in-therapy, people in grief and mother-child bonding that utilize SOULSPEAK's healing power to help participants heal and move forward in their lives. Over 3300 children and adults in over 55 schools and organizations have participated in our SOULSPEAK programs. To this end SOULSPEAK has released two healing DVDs:
2) The SOULSPEAK Healing DVD for Grief Recovery, Support and Healing is a unique DVD that will give you several simple techniques for allowing the soul to speak of its grief. The techniques for reawakening this ability are learned simply by viewing and listening to the DVD and then imitating what you have observed. In a sense it is exactly how we learned to speak as infants. There are also instructions for including other family members in the SOULSPEAK grieving process.
Justin Spring is a nationally recognized poet whose work has been published in such distinguished periodicals as American Poetry Review and Passages North as well as numerous anthologies such as Signs of Life and Florida in Poetry. Mr. Spring was educated at Columbia College and is the recipient of many prizes and honors including the 1997 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. He is the author of five collections of written poetry: Polaroid Poems, Other Dancers, Talkies, Nursery Raps, and Mirrors. Mr. Spring has also recorded seven CD collections of oral poetry: Gathering, Smoke, Nursery Raps, Speakings, In Your Mind, Witnesses Log, I'm Talking to You Oprah, and Barbeque. Mr. Spring has created several video documentaries, among them Spirit of Life Speaking Across the Generations and SOULMASK. As a visual artist, Mr. Spring specializes in Xerox photography collages. Collections of them are frequently on exhibit and a popular selection is contained in the art/poetry book, SOULPRINTS. Mr. Spring is the founder of SOULSPEAK/Sarasota Poetry Theatre, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing poetry back into the everyday lives of everyday people. He is the originator, along with Scylla Liscombe, of SOULSPEAK, a simplified version of ancient oral antiphonal poetry that allows anyone to express his or her emotions in a beautiful, healing, and human way. Mr. Spring is also the originator of a special form of SOULSPEAK used for therapeutic purposes. Over 3000 at-risk children and adults in therapy have participated in this program. Mr. Spring's extensive paper on the results of this program: Therapeutic SOULSPEAK: The Use of Ancient Oral Poetry Forms in Therapy has been published by NAPT- Journal of Poetry Therapy. Mr. Spring is also the author of SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul. This ground-breaking CD/book combination is intended for anyone interested in attaining the deep spiritual expression possible through SOULSPEAK. |
Scylla Liscombe is a poet, dancer, and artist born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Radford University with a B.S. in Dance. Scylla currently resides in Sarasota, Florida where she serves as Executive Director of SOULSPEAK/Sarasota Poetry Theatre a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing poetry back into the community. She is the originator, along with Justin Spring, of SOULSPEAK, a contemporary version of ancient oral, antiphonal poetry. Scylla has participated in well over 50 long term Therapeutic SOULSPEAK programs, a specialized version of SOULSPEAK that is used extensively with-risk children and adults in therapy She is editor of the Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press, which has published over 45 poetry chapbooks from competitions and Therapeutic SOULSPEAK programs. She is a principal poet/recording artist with the group MANY VOICES OF SOULSPEAK who record oral, musical, antiphonal poetry. Her musical poetry can be found on the following Many Voices of SOULSPEAK recordings: Gathering, Smoke, Speakings, Nursery Raps, I'm Talkin' to You Oprah, Witnesses Log and In Your Mind. Scylla is also the originator of SOULMOVES, a dance she not only performs but uses to help anyone access their "inner dancer". Her striking photomontage art is available at local galleries.
 
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