Getting involved

If you are interested in the Scarborough/York/Hull group contact Kate Evans, 01723 360628, or email: eastyorkslapidus@yahoo.com

See Kate's blog Writing Ourselves Well

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

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

Healing Words: an introduction therapeutic creative writing

3rd November, 2012, 9.30am-5pm
at Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute (ScPTI), YO12 7QU
Cost: £65 (ScPTI members)/£85 (non-members)
Contact: mail@scpti.co.uk
This one day experiential workshop will give an introduction to the use of creative writing and poetry both for personal reflection and within a therapeutic space. It is suitable for health professionals who have an interest in writing and for writers who have an interest in working therapeutically. It is a taster for an up-coming Open College Network accredited course.
Tutor: Kate Evans, UKCP registered counsellor, MA in Creative Writing & member of Lapidus

Using Poetry in Nursing Training

Sue Spencer, Lapidus member and senior lecturer in Adult Nursing is developing ways of using poetry in nursing training. She has an MA in Poetry from Newcastle and was interviewed about her work bringing creativity and imagination into this field in ways that enrich and heighten awareness and give hard-working nurses a mode of reflection and a resource for themselves
Read an article on her work published in Press article on Power of Verse in Hospital

Update: Writing Day Retreat at Cober Hill

with Ali Watt and Judith Lesley Marshall
The day was an opportunity to take part in some lightly facilitated writing sessions, learn more about Lapidus and become involved in developing the regional group and was held in the peaceful setting of Cober Hill centre Cober Hill, Cloughton, Scarborough, places for Lapidus members were at reduced cost

Previous events

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).