Artifact
Library
A curated selection of student work produced during the dual degree MACP + MATC program from 2023-2028.
SUMMER 2023
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Written as part of my application process to TSS, my original Statement of Purpose marks what brought me to begin my graduate school journey.
Statement of Purpose
[COMING SOON]
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My life looks drastically different a mere two years after starting at TSS. As such, this revised Statement of Purpose reflects my ever evolving foci and direction.
SPRING 2024
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As a capstone to my first year at TSS, my Theological Anthropology explored my conception of human flourishing as learning how to be human modeled after Jesus' humanity rather than his deity.
SUMMER 2023
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Every fall incoming students are invited to create a representation of who they are. While I no longer identify with one line in this poem in particular, this is who I was at that time.
WINTER 2024
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Sometimes the briefest of moments defines us for far too long. This early God story from my own childhood deeply informs how I have parented my own children as well as the work I feel called to do.
WINTER 2024
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This poem puts words to an imaginative response from God to my early God story and represents the kind of reparenting work I've done within myself and hope to guide others to do as well.
WINTER 2025
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As a dual degree student, this paper explores my styles of engaging in conflict and how they may affect how I relate to therapy clients during conflict.
SUMMER 2025
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I served as a Student Fellow from 2024-202[?]. This application for my second year as a fellow expresses my philosophy of leading in community, a question I wanted to continue exploring to deepen my engagement at TSS, a story of my collaborative work to address a challenging situation, and the final section snapshots my personal life as I entered my third year of grad school.
Winter 2026
DOS Poster Presentation
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For Day of Scholarship 2026, I presented my poster entitled When Your Child Mirrors Your Younger Self: Unlearning Through the Parent-Child Encounter. This poster marked the humble beginnings of my desire to work with parents to help them foster connectedness with themselves and their children.
Examining how our children's developmental stages reactivate our own unmet childhood needs and how this recognition becomes an opportunity for simultaneous healing, this poster explored an experiential exercise mapping personal triggers to childhood experiences and incorporating poetry as a way of expressing our unmet childhood needs without the constraints of attempting to form complete sentences—much the same as our children often lack the vocabulary to fully verbalize their needs.
Winter 2026
DOS Breakout Presentation
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For Day of Scholarship 2026, I presented a breakout session entitled When Words Break Open: Poetry as Unlearning After Betrayal. This experiential session explored how poetry creates space for the fragmented, non-linear reality of betrayal trauma.
By working with image, metaphor, and broken syntax rather than coherent narrative, participants encountered how poetic language allows representations to dissolve and reform as symbols.
After sharing my own poem of intimate partner betrayal, the session explored the clinical and spiritual basis for the use of poetry, and then guided participants in their own poetic exploration—whether from personal experience, clinical witnessing, or empathic imagination.
Designed for poets and non-poets alike, this work invited discovery rather than polished craft, making room for silence and whatever words find their way to the page.
emme wagner
INTEGRATIVE PORTFOLIO
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology