Read more about the Canadian Lapidus group in Edmonton at www.blacktulippress.com/site/lapidus.html Email lapiduscanada@yahoo.com Previous events Family constellations, March 2009 Based on the work by Bert Hellinger. We looked at the dynamics of families and thus the dynamics of what might happen with characters we write about and used this approach to see how we could work through creative blocks. There were 15 participants and 2 facilitators. It was a lovely evening of deep insight and intuitive work. To paraphrase Elizabeth Gilbert if we show up for work, the muses are likely to come. Facilitators used a piece from the movie The Legend of Bagger Vance to illustrate what 'the field' is and how we work within it. Working with the field we may notice both that we become more attuned to ourselves and aware of what is 'true' or congruent. Like the magnetic field, 'the field' can be a way of hearing ourselves and navigating emotional and creative journeys.

Women, spirituality and transition November 2008

Frame of Mind with Leanne Myggland-Carter May 2008

Spiritual Direction: Power Beyond Measure facilitated by Gary Garrison March 2008

Facilitator Meri Hladun taught a fantastic workshop on a narrative approach to career counselling Jan. 2008

Professional development workshop with Victoria Field, April, 2007. Victoria, a former writer-in-residence at Truro Cathedral in Cornwall visited Edmonton to do a for those who write and/or teach writing Victoria is a gifted poet, an editor, and has written extensively in the field of writing and personal development

The healing potential of creative writing February 2007
The Friends of the University Hospitals and the Edmonton Lapidus Branch co-hosted this lecture at the McMullen Gallery

Deanna Hart author of Who will feed the chickens (2007) spoke about living with chronic pain and how writing through it was both a compulsion and a deeply visceral experience

Twilla and Mark Welch spoke about their play, Bearing Witness (2002) which they wrote and had professionally staged, first in Australia and later in Edmonton in collaboration with the Faculty of Nursing and the Department of Drama (2005). In it they examined the similarities between the experiences of victims of sexual abuse and those who have suffered torture

First international Lapidus meeting, November 2006

in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Participants braved the snow and chilly wind and Reinekke and her husband Keath hosted the 14 who came to find out more about Lapidus

Some of the interested people were: an occupational therapist, a physiotherapist/traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, two fantasy writers, a poet and the writer-in-residence from the University of Alberta Hospital’s Artist on the Wards Program, a singer/songwriter, and various others who shared their experiences of writing for love, for sanity, through illness, during emotional crisis, and because they simply “have to.”

Contact Reinekke Lengelle at soulwork@tic.ab.ca or by phone (1-780-4401430)