§ 5 · AboutSomewhere real, with real ground underfoot.
Society of Poets was born of being a burnt-out, exhausted, overstimulated millennial father of three living in an always-on culture. Slack on my phone. Email on demand. Social media dumbing us down, doom-scrolling over things that hold no real importance.
I wanted to create spaces for people to disconnect from the stresses of life, and reconnect with life, and with themselves, in ways that feel uplifting and natural. It’s rare, as an adult, to have time to yourself. To think. To sit and be present. That’s what we hope to provide here.
§ 5.1 · THE REALISATIONThe root wasn’t a lack of tools or techniques.
For years I ran wellbeing and mental health sessions inside other people’s organisations, and with small groups of individuals. Over time I came to the same conclusion, again and again. The sessions were plastering over the issues, not getting to the root.
The root wasn’t a lack of tools or techniques. It was a lack of time and space, away from everything competing for our attention, to actually hear ourselves think.
So I built that instead.
§ 5.2 · THE GROUND WE CHOSEWe chose nature as our office.
Not another wellbeing programme. Somewhere real, with earth underfoot.
We chose nature because it has been doing this work for a very long time. Wordsworth and Coleridge walked the hills, fells, valleys and fields, paying close attention to the ordinary world around them. Out of those walks came poems, conversations and the beginnings of Romanticism.
We like the simplicity of that.
Walking. Talking when there is something worth saying. Quiet when there isn’t. Writing, if it helps.
Small groups, because honesty needs room to breathe.
Sometimes, getting somewhere begins with simply walking.
§ 5.3 · THE NAMEWhy we are called Society of Poets.
We named it Society of Poets not because everyone who comes needs to write, but because poets have always known something the rest of us forget: that slowing down enough to look properly is not a waste of time. It’s the whole point.
That’s what we’re building here. Not a fix. Just space, and people who understand why you need it.
