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The Power of Poetry

“People can only reach their potential through engagement with the brain’s foundational development tool, engagement with poetry as a multisensory experience.”

John Stoddart, Founder, Camena

Inspirational Teaching Artists

A revolutionary approach to wellbeing, learning & development

Camena takes a revolutionary approach to well-being, learning, and development by integrating poetry into personal and professional growth. Our expert-led programmes use poetry as a multi-sensory tool alongside innovative teaching methods to enhance cognitive, emotional, and creative skills. Backed by research, our courses are designed to be engaging, accessible, and transformative—whether as a standalone tool or alongside existing mental health initiatives.

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Transform your workplace

Camena uses the transformative capacity of engagement with poetry as a multisensory experience, the foundational development tool for the brain, to deliver unrivalled benefits and ROI for wellbeing, culture, performance, strategy and leadership.

Sector leading ROI

Engagement with Poetry as a Multisensory Experience is the most enduring driver of human development. In businesses suffering from wellbeing, engagement, leadership and culture issues, it serves as a practical tool for fostering resilience, emotional intelligence, innovation and effective leadership while enriching the workplace with aesthetic and emotional depth.

Engagement with poetry nurtures individuals and organisations in ways that are neurologically transformative and therapeutic, making it an essential investment for long-term growth and organisational cohesion.

ROI Projections

Corporate Staff

Wellbeing, Development & Culture for Corporate Staff is projected to return 1800%

Banking Executives

Wellbeing, Development & Culture for Banking Executives is projected to return 6000%

Strategy Management

Strategy and change management is projected to return 1500%

NHS Staff

NHS Staff Development is projected to return 1000% to 4000%

Tech start-ups

Wellbeing, Development & Culture Tech start-ups is projected to return 70,000%

Investment Banking

Transform Investment Banking is projected to return 100,000 to 300,000%

Our programmes are delivered by a team of leading teaching artists

Led by Jacob Sam La-Rose, with years of experience in delivering poetry workshops in a multitude of environments.

Teaching artists are leading published poets, outstanding performers and brilliant teachers whose training, experience and compassion cultivates a creative and emotionally safe environment which guides participants through the journey of discovering their innate ability to write an emotionally and intellectually satisfying poem which provides a sense of accomplishment and nurtures significant development.

Testimonials

“Poetry gives our cadets a new and vital way of seeing the world”….

…“offering differing perspectives, competing values and conflicting emotions”

“In teaching cadets poetry we teach them not what to think, but how to think.”

Lt Gen James Lennox (US Military Academy, West Point)

“A whirlwind of fun, exploration, inspiration, depth, and laughter. Poetic company where everyone is welcome. So enjoyable and worthwhile to do, definitely recommended!”

From What Poetry Brings to Business (Clare Morgan).