Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purpose Workshops
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The Heart II
Exploring how we place our kindling, build a fire - acknowledge the courage we sometimes need to act and where we locate it.
Currently on hold
10am - 1pm
Online £35 + open concessions
For those valuing self reflection
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The Heart I
Chances to uncover the secret chambers of the heart, to melt into forgotten or long buried longings.
Currently on hold
10am - 1pm
Online £35 + open concessions
For those valuing self reflection
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A Seat at the Table
A morning writing on belonging.
An invitation to explore the fundamental need as well as the exquisite desires to belong. My own nomadic experiences through the extended family in childhood and life in different continents as an adult have intrigued me and my own sense of belonging. We will open with a simple body awareness to step into an embodied experience of writing. We will use poems, aspects of the wild world as well as recollections of family dynamics around the table (or similar if this didn’t play a role). A chance to gently explore our experiences of belonging, help us into a reflective process and to create narratives in various forms. Small group activities to share the process or the writing.
Saturday 25th May 2024
10am - 1pm
Online £35 + open concessions
For those valuing self reflection
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The Promise
Exploring the unspoken promise of ‘mother’
Gentle explorations into the idea of an unspoken promise around the role of mother. What society may anticipate for us either as a mother or from our mother. The unspoken assumptions and expectations from ourselves and others within the role.
Single session 10am - 1pm
Online £35 + concessions
Fri 27th Oct 2023 (past event)
Suitable to those who value self reflection
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Connection and Disconnection
a closed process group with connection and disconnection as our heartland running approximately fortnightly
Series of 5 workshops 10am - 1pm
Oct 20, Nov 3, 17, Dec 1, 15 2023
£210 + open concessions
Postponed
Suitable for those in active self reflection
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Yoga-Writing: Earth element
Exploring the element of Earth - oscillating between yoga and words
Day Event £70
Sat 14th Oct 2023 (past event)
The Botanical Gardens, Sheffield (Indoors)
Open to all
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Bespoke sessions available
for trustees & charities, workplace wellness, processing with colleagues, friends & family events
I delight in design & will work to your brief
Off-the-shelf sessions in partial design and that can be tailored include: diversity, loss, reflective practice for the self-employed, processing climate change
some travel possible, please enquire
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Taster
Gentle evening exploring process via writing
Single session 7pm - 8.30pm
Tues 3rd October 2023 £21 + concessions
Online
Open to all
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On Location WHITBY
Single sessions 1hr 15 mins
1st session each day: Exploring wishes & needs with help from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy - suitable for adults!
2nd session each day: Flights of Freedom, with help from birds and cards and other motifs exploring our sense of freedom
3rd session: Refresh & Renew - letting a sense of the sea, other elements and poetry wash over us and guide our writing, offering us a chance to release the no longer needed
Dates in Jul - Aug (past event)
Cliff top location
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Taster
Gentle evening exploring process via writing
Single session 7pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 11th July 2023 £21
Online
Open to all
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Taster
Gentle evening exploring process via writing
Single session 7pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday June 13th (past event)
Online
Open to all
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The Unsung
Exploring how things make the light ….. or get missed
Single session 10am - 12.30pm
Fri 19th May 2023 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Bespoke sessions available
for trustees & charities, workplace wellness, processing with colleagues, friends & family events
I delight in design & will work to your brief
Off-the-shelf sessions in partial design and that can be tailored include: diversity, loss, reflective practice for the self-employed, processing climate change
some travel possible, please enquire
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Taster
Gentle evening exploring process via writing.
Single session 7pm - 8.30pm
Thu May 18th 2023 (past event)
Online
Open to all
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Seasons Wisdom
A deeper tuning in, updating ourselves within the unfolding year
Single session 10am - 12 midday
Dates TBC £24
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Into the dark
And the deeper well of creativity
Single session 10am - 12 midday
25th January 2023 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Seasons Wisdom
A deeper tuning in, updating ourselves within the unfolding year
Single session, 10am - 12 midday
9th Nov 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Yoga-Writing morning
Single session, 10am - 1pm
Nov 5th 2022 (past event)
Sheffield Buddhist Centre
Suitable for all in the Buddhist Community
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Friends and Allies
Who and what supports our vitality?
Single session, 2 hrs 30 mins
26th Oct 2022. (past event)
The Botanical Gardens, Sheffield
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Earth (online)
Being of the earth & on the earth. Being earthed. Explorations of connectedness
Single session, 2 hrs
12th Oct 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Nests
Locating self in safe places (Inspired by Susan Ogilvy’s book)
Single session, 1 hr
25th Jun 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for all
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Seasons Wisdom
Accessing a deeper tuning in to update selves within the unfolding year
Single session, 2 hrs
11th Mar 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those in active reflection
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The Repair Shop: when things fall apart
Single session, 2hrs
30th Mar 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those in active reflection
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I am feather I am stone: recognizing self in communication
Single session, 2 hrs
12th Feb 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those in active reflection
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Gifts Unwrapped
Single session, 2 hrs
Giving and receiving, the impact of gifts
8th Jan 2022 (past event)
Online
Suitable for all
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Thresholds
Single session, 1 hr
Chance to tune into winter or xmas or December and access personal meanings
2nd Dec 2021 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those in active reflection
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Hard and Soft Edges
Single session, 2 hrs
Exploring through animals and minerals where we move into our hard and soft edges
Jul 2021 (past event)
Online
Suitable for those in active reflection
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ATLAS redefined
Taking a breather from bearing the load
In this workshop we will be enquiring into a sense of responsibility we may hold for a variety of reasons and in feeling able to ask - or not - for help and the societal messages around rest or claiming rest.
This workshop is currently resting.
Please enquire if you’d like to join the mailing list for when dates appear.
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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Mother: She, I, Other
Series of 5 closed workshops, approx fortnightly.
This workshop is currently resting.
Please enquire if you’d like to join the mailing list for when dates appear.
Online
Suitable for those in active self reflection
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Whose pocket are you in?
And who is in your pocket? Explorations of personal power
This workshop is currently resting.
Please enquire if you’d like to join the mailing list for when dates appear.
Online
Suitable for those who value self reflection
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for those on a path of spirit
Monday, January (date to be confirmed)
7-8.30 pm £21 (limited open concess)
online
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for those on a path of spirit
Monday, February (date tbc) 2024
7-8.30 pm £21 (limited open concess)
online