We have developed a local group which encourages networking and explores all aspects of our members' interests including writing for personal development, using creative writing therapeutically with others, and training There are two Lapidus groups in the region, one covering the Bradford/Leeds area and the other broadly Scarborough/York/Hull

Kate Evans is nominally co-ordinator of the group and other members organise meetings

Writing Courses

listings are of writing courses with a therapeutic element

The Writer's Way Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th September 2010
with tutors Hazel Ettridge and Kate Evans
Writer's Way at Cober Hill
This two day residential workshop will invite you to explore your creativity using various techniques including guided writing exercises, relaxation, visualisation and meditation. For those who want to cultivate their creativity, or who feel blocked in their writing, or who feel the urge to write but don't know where to start - an approach to creative exploration and development, healing, personal growth and spiritual fulfilment
see Kate Evans' website at Writing Ourselves Well

Previous meetings:

Forum Theatre, Leeds, October 2008 (meeting notes- Word document)
facilitated by Barry Fox with three actors from Urban Sprawl theatre company. Following principles originated by Augusto Boal, a group of thirteen interrupted an enacted scenario on a thorny issue and inserted comments which would influence the shape of the drama and allow key issues to be raised for further discussion and writing

Workshop with Char March, West Yorkshire Playhouse, February 2008. Writer in residence for Tonic, Leeds Hospitals Arts project (meeting notes - word document)

Conversations with Paintings at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery & Lister Park, Bradford, June 2007
(meeting notes- Word document)

Exploring the sense of self through a sense of place - my First Lapidus Day, February 2007 (meeting notes- Word document)

Getting Curious About the Critic, September 2006 with River Wolton, (meeting notes- Word document)

Survivors of Mental Distress, February 2006: writing and discussion with Terry Simpson, (meeting notes - Word document)

Workshop with John Fox, US National Association for Poetry Therapy, September 2005(meeting notes - Word document)

The Writer's Voice, February 2005 (meeting notes- Word document)

Inaugural Meeting, West Yorkshire Playhouse, September 2004. Writer in residence at a West Yorkshire hospice, Alex Krysinski, spoke inspiringly about her work summary by Martin Woof (Word document).