How does the North Yorkshire Group operate?

We have developed a local group which encourages networking and explores all aspects of our members interests including (but not exclusively): writing for personal development, using creative writing therapeutically with others, and training.

Following our excellent meeting on the 18th of October 2008 on Forum Theatre see attached notes (meeting notes- Word document), we have decided to take the group in a slightly different direction. The aim is to create two peer mentoring groups, one covering the Bradford/Leeds area and the other broadly Scarborough/York/Hull. These will meet as regularly as the members require and will focus on issues around facilitating therapeutic creative writing workshops, as well as on personal development/reflective writing members are doing themselves. Once these two groups have gained strength, we intend to have a regional meeting to exchange ideas and develop our practice further. If you are interested in joining the Leeds/Bradford group please contact Anne Maney, 01937 843010, annemaney@ntlworld.com. If you are interested in the Scarborough/York/Hull group please contact Kate Evans, 01723 360628, Kateevans@tinyonline.co.uk

While Kate Evans (KateEvans@tinyonline.co.uk) is nominally co-ordinator of the group, it is expected that other members will organise meetings.

Previous meetings:

23rd February 2008: (meeting notes - word document)

23rd June 2007:(meeting notes- Word document)

3rd February 2007: Exploring the sense of self through a sense of place - My First Lapidus Day. (meeting notes- Word document)

23rd September 2006: 'Getting Curious About the Critic' - a workshop with River Wolton, (meeting notes- Word document)

4th February 2006:writing exercises and a discussion on working with survivors of mental distress meeting with Terry Simpson, (meeting notes - Word document)

24th September 2005: a workshop with John Fox, National Association for Poetry Therapy (meeting notes - Word document)

5th February 2005: a workshop on the writer's voice (meeting notes- Word document)

Saturday the 11th of September 2004: our inaugural meeting on at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Twenty-six people attended, about half were new to Lapidus. The meeting was split into two parts. In the first half writer in residence at a West Yorkshire hospice , Alex Krysinski, spoke inspiringly about her work. In the second half there was a general discussion about how the new local group might work. Please see linked notes by Martin Woof (Word document).