Both are Educators, Writers, Creative Souls
(508) 596-6228, (508) 817-6057
cbperreault@gmail.com
Cheryl Perreault and Lisa Breger join forces to provide workshops to feed the soul, challenge the mind and nurture the spirit.
Lisa Breger
Lisa is a lifelong devotee to the craft of poetry and has over 20 years of teaching experience at the college level. Her training and interests are in transformative education, contemplative writing, and spiritual journaling. She is also a Certified Canine Massage Therapist and owner of Canine Massage Works.
As a poet, Lisa believes in an aesthetic that awakens one's spiritual experience and authentic engagement with the world. She has received many awards for her poetry, including the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Sow's Ear Poetry Prize, and the Ron H. Bayes Poetry Award. She earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College and her BS in Education from Lesley University. As an educator, Lisa is a gentle and motivating guide who helps students develop the courage and confidence to write from their core. Lisa's teaching is full of invention and students will be inspired to keep on writing long after the workshop has ended.
Cheryl Perreault
Cheryl has a background in psychology and is a spoken word artist of poetry and story. She has taught a number of courses in psychology and presently teaches The Psychology of Women at Boston University. Cheryl also honors the art of sharing our life-stories with one another... in writing life review and stories with hospice patients, in providing programming for local storytelling venues and in her work as host and coproducer of the Meet Your Neighbor show at HCAM-TV. Additionally, she is founder/host and co-producer of a monthly Saturday morning program known as Wake up and Smell the Poetry at HCAM-TV Studios in Hopkinton which offers monthly programs of "awakening" to the art of poetry, story and song for community. Cheryl also writes two columns for The Hopkinton Crier which include "Creativity Matters" and "Wake up to Life." For more information go to hcam.tv/wakeup