An Online Self-Guided Course with 17 Lessons & 11 Hours of Video Training PLUS Bonus Material
Co-created by Malibu Poet Laureate and Founder of The Poetry Vessel, Nathan Hassall and National Bestselling Author and World-Renowned Neuroscience Researcher, Mark Waldman.
Hear what Nathan Hassall and Mark Waldman have to say about their exciting new course that will show you how to write and speak in a way that creates genuine empathy and interest in the reader’s and listener’s brain.
Evidence-Based Methods to Enhance Your Everyday Life
The new field of neurocognitive poetics gives us a better way to communicate with others and to turn emotional distress into serenity and joy.
This program is tailored for those who want to develop their poetic skills and to deepen their writing practice. The field of neurocognitive poetics is clear: If you want to experience greater meaning and happiness in life, it is essential to bring a poetic framework into every aspect of your personal life, the workplace, and especially with those you deeply care for and love.
Who's this course for?
This program is ideal for anyone interested in utilizing neuroscience-based strategies to enhance their personal and professional lives. By integrating these evidence-based techniques, you can experience measurable improvements in confidence, emotional well-being, communication skills, and overall life satisfaction.
What benefits will I experience?
✔ Improve the language and communication centers in your brain
✔ Build emotional empathy using poetic speech and metaphor
✔ See your problems with greater clarity
✔ Deepen your self-knowledge
✔ Resolve fear/anxiety/depression faster than traditional therapy
✔ Learn to listen and speak in tune with your brain, through melody and rhythm
✔ Turn off negative ruminating thoughts
✔ Become less judgmental and self-critical
✔ Process grief and trauma faster
✔ Learn how to better express wordless emotions
✔ Tap into your unconscious to gain wisdom
What will I get from this course?
Gain Lifetime access to in-depth videos covering the following topics:
- LESSON 1: How Poetic Speaking Changes Your Brain
- LESSON 2: The Art & Science of Poetic Speaking
- LESSON 3: Where Does Poetry Come From?
- LESSON 4: Stream of Consciousness Writing
- LESSON 5: Are You a Poet?
- LESSON 6: Good Poems, Bad Poems & the Neuroscience of Flow
- LESSON 7: The Language & Speech Networks in the Brain
- LESSON 8: Jungian Psychology, Poetry, and Dreams for Personal Growth
- LESSON 9: Turning Dreams into Poetry
- LESSON 10: Carl Jung’s 5 Mind-Blowing Insights on Poetry
- LESSON 11: Revisioning & the Art of Editing Poetry
- LESSON 12: Using Poetry to Heal Trauma & Emotional Distress
- LESSON 13: Is Grief an Urban Myth? The Neuroscience of Sadness, Loss, and Transformation
- LESSON 14: Overcoming Creative Self-Doubt & Writer’s Block
- LESSON 15: Advice for Poets Young and Old
- LESSON 16: Bring Strangeness into Your Writing
- LESSON 17: Building Empathy with Poetic Speaking & the Neuroscience of Effective Communication
What People Are Saying...
Meet Your Instructors
Meet Nathan Hassall
Nathan Hassall is the 5th Poet Laureate of Malibu, California, and the Founder of The Poetry Vessel. As a poet, educator, and editor, he brings a deep commitment to the transformative power of language.
Originally from Horsham, England, Hassall earned his Master’s in Creative Writing – Poetry in 2018. His chapbook of haiku, dregsongs from blab cartilage, was published by Bones: A Journal of Haiku and featured as The Haiku Foundation’s Book of the Week. His poetry has also appeared widely across international literary journals.
Through The Poetry Vessel, Hassall offers global poetry education and hosts a multidisciplinary podcast. The podcast features a diverse range of guests, including neuroscientists, musicians, poets, and therapists, all exploring the poetic in its many forms. As a sought-after freelance editor, he collaborates with poets, writers, and entrepreneurs, helping them articulate their voices with clarity and depth—skills he brings directly to this course.
Meet Mark Waldman
Mark Waldman began his coaching career 1987, under the psychoanalytic supervision of Bruno Bettelheim and the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He was actively involved with the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and was the founding editor of the Transpersonal Review. As an Associate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Spirituality and the Mind, Mark and Andrew Newberg used their brain-scan research to develop new ways to improve cognitive and emotional performance. Their national bestseller, How God Changes Your Brain, was chosen by Oprah as one of the “Must Read” books for 2012.
The author of 14 books, Mark’s in-depth research has been published in neuroscience and psychology journals throughout the world and his work has been featured in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and many others. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, including PBS and NPR, and his TEDx Talk has been viewed by more than 100,000 people.
He created the world’s first NeuroLeadership course that he taught for the Executive MBA program at Loyola Marymount University, and he has traveled throughout the world introducing new brain-enhancing strategies to schools and professional organizations throughout the world including the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, the UCLA Center for Neurobiology of Stress, the Texas Council of Community Centers, Pepperdine School of Psychology, Southern Louisiana University, University of California Irvine, Centers for Spiritual Living and many religious/spiritual groups.