Creative Bridges Conference 2021

Strand 1

11:00 - 11:45am -
 
Dimitra Didangelou  
Express Gratitude through Writing 
45 min workshop

Strand 2

11:00 - 11:45am -
 
Claire Williamson
Heroines: Empowerment of rural women in
Europe with mental health challenges through
therapeutic writing
45 min workshop

Strand 3

11:00 - 11:45am -
 
Natalie Scott
Pen Power: Entering the Poem's Room
45 min workshop 

Strand 1

12:00 - 1:00pm -
 
Poonam Madar 
Because I’m a Londoner: Black Male Identity
and the Politics of Seeing
45 min presentation

Strand 2

12:00 - 1:00pm -
 

Katrin Den Elzen
Re-Writing Grief and Loss
30 min presentation 

Chiara Santin
When Words are not Enough. The Power of
Metaphors in Eco-Therapy
30 min presentation

Strand 3

12:00 - 1:00pm -
 
Kate Pawsey, Mel Perry & Louise Treharne
Lost Like a Car on the Roundabout
60 min panel discussion

Strand 1

1:45 - 2:30pm -
 
Catherine Okoronkwo
Mindful Creativity
45 min workshop

Strand 2

1:45 - 2:30pm -
 

Lorna Hill
Writing with survivors of Domestic Abuse
45 min workshop

Strand 3

Kim Etherington
Writing and Memories: Autoethnography as Writing for Wellbeing
45 min workshop

Strand 1

2:45 - 3:45pm -
 
Alec Grant & Susan Young
Troubling Tolichism in Several Voices:
Resisting Epistemic Violence in Creative
Analytic and Critical Authoethnographic
Practice.
30 min presentation
 
Nicki Power
Making Time to Make: A Heuristic
Investigation of an Art Therapist’s Own
Images
30 min presentation

Strand 2

2:45 - 3:45pm -
 
Esther Wafula and Phyllis Muthon 
Cultivating Attention and Delight across Borders:
A photo-poetry collaboration
30 min presentation
 
Rachel Godfrey
Crossing the Distance: Can mapping dreams using
reflective writing techniques facilitate the
ntegration of the self? A heuristic inquiry
30 min presentation

Strand 3

2:45 - 3:45pm -
 
Fiona Hamilton
Zoomfoolery: Creative Ideas for
Online Spaces
45 min workshop

Strand 1

4:00 - 5:00pm -
 
Kate Pawsey, Asha Sahni & Jacqui Smith 
She pulled pond weed from her hair"
Some creative, reflective and expressive
experiences in a CWTP peer supervision
group
60 min panel discussion
 

Strand 2

4:00 - 5:00pm -
 
Reinekke Lengelle
Writing the Self in Bereavement: The ethics and taboos
of writing about deceased loved ones.
45 min workshop
 

Strand 3

4:00 - 5:00pm -
 
Jennifer Bertrand
These Roots That Bind Us: Using Writing
to Process Grief and Reconstruct
the Self in Chronic Illness
30 min presentation

Jacqueline Maloney & Thuraya Altowairqi
Poetry Reading in a Pandemic
30 min presentation

Strand 1

11:00 - 11:45am -

Kiran Bangerh Robert Downes &
Foluke Taylor, Fiona Hamilton/Jeannie Wright
Writing into the Unbearable
Encounter with Race
60 min panel discussion

Strand 2

11:00 - 11:45am -
 
Stephanie Dale
The How of Writing for Wellbeing
30 min presentation

Ryan Farrior
National Regeneration II
30 min presentation

Strand 3

11:00 - 11:45am -
 
Sally Hare & Asha Sahni
Bristol Diverse Creative Writing Group -
For Adults who Identify as Autistic
30 min presentation

Fiona Stirling
You by Me: Reflections on a
collaborative essaying experiment.
30 min presentation

Strand 1

12:00 - 1:00pm -
 
Reflective Time and Space

Strand 2

12:00 - 1:00pm -

Atlanta Rayner
Hidden Flowers for Sexual Healing
45 min presentation 

Strand 3

12:00 - 1:00pm -
 
Magdalena Schamberger & Lorna Hill
Bringing Out Leaders in Dementia- The BOLD Project
45 min panel workshop

Strand 1

1:45 - 2:45pm -
 
Emma Decent
Wheel of Nature Writing
30 min presentation

Abigail Alfrey
Poetry Therapy in Practice:
Developing and Testing
the EFECT Model
30 min presentation

Strand 2

1:45 - 2:45pm -
 

Vicki Riddiford
Creative life writing and research as self-therapy:
A life-changing heuristic process.
30 min presentation

Claire Dyer
Where Gender is no differentiator and
love the gain: poems from Yield
30 min presentation

Strand 3

1:45 - 2:45pm -
 
Reflective Time and Space

Strand 1

3:00 - 3:45pm -
 
Kate Thompson
Giving to Ourselves what we Offer to Others:
Journal Therapy Techniques for Self-Supervision
45 min workshop
 

Strand 2

3:00 - 3:45pm -
 
Dawn McHale
The Divine Online
45 min workshop

Strand 3

3:00 - 3:45pm -
 
Jane Willis
Creative and Credible:
Top Tips for using Writing
to Evaluate your Practice
45 min workshop