Writing Poetry with the Eternal Youth Inside
A poetry workshop with Roula-Maria Dib

Monday, December 22, 2025

Online, via Zoom

Fee: GBP 30
(excluding Ticket Tailor fee)

Workshop description:

Somewhere inside you lives a barefoot dreamer — a sky-gazer, a flower-picker, a rule-breaker, a little spark of wild imagination that still believes anything is possible.

In this playful, poetry workshop, we’re going to set that inner youth free.

We’ll begin with a gentle dive into the archetypes of the puella aeterna and puer aeternus — the eternal girl and eternal boy who show up in myths and stories as the ones who long for beginnings, magic, flight, and freedom. Think Persephone turning toward the flowers, Psyche chasing love through the stars, Icarus climbing into the sky, Peter Pan refusing to grow up.

Poets of all levels are welcome (and don’t worry — no Jungian background needed).
Just bring your imagination, your curiosity… and perhaps a mischievous inner sparkle.

Through a series of light-hearted, creative activities, you will: Write poems in the voice of your personal puella or puer, let the Elder, Mother, Trickster, or Shadow characters talk back, and discover what your inner youth wants, avoids, remembers, and still dares to dream.

This workshop is part myth, part psychology, part poetry, and part pure childhood wonder.
It’s a chance to reconnect with the part of you that still runs toward possibility —
the part that leaps before looking, sings before thinking, and sees magic in ordinary days.

Come play, write, imagine, and remember who you’ve always been…your eternal youth is waiting!

Roula-Maria Dib, PhD, FRSA, is a literary scholar, poet, consultant, and the founding director of the London Arts-Based Research Centre. She is the founding editor of Indelible, a literary and arts journal, and the creative producer behind Indelible Evenings, as well as Psychreative, a virtual salon bringing together researchers and creatives with an interest in Jungian psychology and the arts.

An award-winning writer and recipient of the UK Global Talent Visa and the British Council’s 2022 Alumni Award for Culture and Creativity, Roula-Maria’s work explores the fertile intersections of literature, art, poetics, autoethnography, and Jungian thought. She is the author of the poetry collection Simply Being (Chiron, 2021) and Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2020), shortlisted for the IAJS Book Awards.

She also writes The Icon Whisperer on Substack, where she explores imaginal encounters, symbolism, and creative inquiry through art and archetype. Formerly a professor of English at the American University in Dubai, she now works between scholarship, creativity, and consulting, helping individuals and organisations engage with imagination, archetypes, and creative process.

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