An experiential introduction to reflexive writing practice for counsellors and therapists.

Sandy Hutchinson Nunns

Making Soup introduced 12 participants to reflexive writing practice for therapeutic purposes. The course took place in a library and was aimed at newly-qualified and volunteer counsellors and, whilst no stipulations were made, all respondents were female and all between the ages of 30 and 55. The weeks were divided into the stages and ingredients of making soup, with each week focusing on a different aspect of reflexive writing practice. An attempt was made to introduce participants to wide variety of established writing practitioners and how to use them in practice for themselves and with their clients.

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Sandy Hutchinson Nunns MA shnunns@hotmail.com

My background is in teaching psychology and feminist philosophy of religion and my psychotherapy training is in Transactional Analysis, the original narrative therapy. I use writing techniques in my clinical work and offer therapeutic writing workshops and supervision for writers as well as counsellors and therapists. In my fiction, I write about therapeutic issues in a mythological style and am currently working on a book about Lilith, woman as outsider. I am Lapidus’ contact in Brighton.