Event Round Up
There are a lot of events going on at the moment, run both by ourselves and our members. We don't want you to miss out, so please find below a summary of the events happening over the next few months. We'll continue to update it every time someone sends in something new! (All times are in UK time unless otherwise specified)
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Next Lapidus Events
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Writing for Wellbeing for those in the Caring Professions
Date: 15th January 2022 and 12th February 2022
Time: 11:00-13:00PM maximum 8 places in total available per workshop (the group will only run with a minimum of 2 participants; if you are the only person books, you will be offered the option of a refund of Storied Selves fees (less eventbrite booking fees which are not refundable) OR a 1:1 session of 90 minutes on the same day of the workshop, for the fee you have paid for the group workshop. Full details on FAQ of website).
Where: Online (Zoom)
Cost: £35 full price, £25 undergraduate students/unwaged
Description:
Open to all who work with people in a therapeutic capacity professionally, including in all sectors of healthcare, social care, therapy counselling and voluntary sectors, those who are training in the caring professions, and all those who are involved in teaching and training them (including clinicians, academics and students at all levels).The themes of this set of four workshops, are designed to allow you to explore creative and enjoyable ways of exploring and enhancing your wellbeing through creative self-expression, and reflection, through writing and group discussion. The focus in this type of writing (also known as therapeutic writing), is on the process of writing, more so than on the final ‘product,’ in refreshing and liberating contrast to so much of our professional lives, which are often focussed on outcomes and productivity.I believe that this type of writing can provide an enjoyable adjunct to the mandatory reflective writing portfolios many of us are obliged to maintain at work.
My workshops provide a supportive,nurturing and confidential space, to engage in a range of enjoyable writing activities, using a blend of creative, expressive and reflective writing approaches, including poetry, fiction, quotes, images and other mixed media, as ‘writing prompts’; participants are then invited to share- extracts of their writing and/or reflections on the writing process and/or theme of the workshop, but are not obligated to so, and are certainly and not coerced to share anything unless they feel comfortable to do so.
No formal creative or other writing experience is needed, just a willingness to give writing a go!
After the Clock Strikes: Using poetry to find New Year Gifts
Date: Sunday 2nd January 2022
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Where: Online
Cost: £20/ US $28
Description:
Another workshop back by popular demand. Reflecting and Rebirthing: Examining the highs and lows of 2021, ways we’ve grown or adapted, things we’ve learnt. Looking at poems of re-birth, reflection, change, courage and bravery. Participants will create, not New Year’s resolutions, but sankalpas (a more positive and yogic approach to goal-setting) by using prompts from poems. Exploring what we will do with our “one wild and precious life” in 2022. Learn journaling approaches and exercises designed to support the start of your year.The Hero’s Journey, an 8-week Writing for Wellbeing Workshop
Date: Part 1: 19, 26 January and 2, 9 February
Part 2: 16, 23 February, 2, 9 March
Time: 5:00 to 7:00pm
Where: Online
Cost: £63 for 4 sessions; £120 for 8 sessions (discounted for Lapidus members)
Description:
One day you finally knew
What you had to do, and began
--Mary Oliver
Come along on an adventure and deepen your writing practice in these two 4-week Writing for Wellbeing workshops.
Using literature as our inspiration, and the hero’s quest as our map, we will engage imaginatively with archetypal narratives and characters to reconsider our own stories—as a route to self-discovery.
In this supportive, confidential space, you will have the opportunity to share your writing, though you are never obligated to do so, as well as reflect on others’ writing.
No formal experience or preparation is needed, just a willingness to give writing a go! Simply bring a desire to share, reflect and experiment with words (and paper and pen).
Register through London Literary Salon: http://www.litsalon.co.uk/creative-writing-studies/
About the Facilitator: Alison Cable (BA, MA English Literature) was a university lecturer in the US before moving to London. Alison has volunteered as a primary school librarian, written a novel for young adults, and regularly attends and facilitates salons at the London Literary Salon. She volunteers as a group leader for The Reader Organisation.
The Inner Child
Date: Sunday 16th January 2022
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where: Online (Zoom)
Cost: £35
Description:
The focus will be on identifying the behaviour and feelings of the inner child whether within ourselves or those with whom we work.
These supervision workshops provide enriching conversation, experiential and exploratory writing and help to clarify your work as a practitioner.
Supervision workshop information and booking: www.monicasuswin.com
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Poetry in Motion: Inspire your creativity through movement and writing
Date: Saturday 22nd January 2022
Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm
Where: Online (Zoom)
Cost: £15
Description:
From Feldenkrais to Improvised Movement and Writing (online and face to face)
Date: Saturday 29th January 2022
Time: 9am to 1pm
Where: Online (Zoom) or Face to face: The Artworks London Bridge, 60A Weston St, SE1 3QP
Cost: £45, with concessions available
Description:
This workshop will be informed by the Feldenkrais Method and other movement-based practise as a springboard to your own creative movement and improvised writing.
We will explore ways to enliven your body and imagination and how images and changes in our state can be taken into embodied creative practice.
This workshop will be of interest to those working with the arts, movement, performance or for anyone interested in personal development through embodied and creative expression.
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The Naïve Voice
Date: Sunday 6th February 2022
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where: Online (Zoom)
Cost: £35
Description:
We’ll be experimenting and exploring the written word using simple language and syntax with the idea of finding the voice of the inner child.
These supervision workshops provide enriching conversation, experiential and exploratory writing and help to clarify your work as a practitioner.
Supervision workshop information and booking: www.monicasuswin.com
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Nourishing the Creative Self: Sustenance for the Journey
Date: Saturday, 12th February 2022
Time: Arrive from 9.30 for 10am start. Finish at 3pm
Where: NESTT CIC, Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire - This will be a small in-person workshop with 6 participants and 2 facilitators. We intend to include a short walk. If government regulations do not permit us to meet in-person, this workshop will move online. On this occasion, we will not be offering a blended experience.
Cost: £50 - Booking through Lydia Noor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Description:
For those of us who choose to take on a caring role either professionally or within a private capacity, there is often an emotional toll which we are sometimes not fully aware of. To be available for others, we need to develop a certain psychological robustness. We need to take care of ourselves. If we are shredded, then we are no use to our clients or those we support.
Exploring and nourishing our creative spirit can be part of our self care and creative writing for wellbeing one route into being more attentive to our needs and providing for them.
Through some gentle facilitated writing prompts, this workshop offers the opportunity to discover what creative writing for wellbeing might bring us. It is suitable for those who are new to this approach, as well as those who have some experience and want to go further. We all have a creative self, all it needs to flourish is time, space and permission. This workshop will offer ways of encouraging it to breathe. The focus of our time together will be on the process rather than the product, therefore, participants won’t be asked to share their work.
Nourishing the Creative Self: Sustenance for the Journey is a creative workshop organised by NESTT. It is aimed at therapists, those who work in the caring professionals and also those who have chosen to take on a caring role for a member of the family.
Brand New!! A Series of 6 Weekly Creative Evening Workshops Based on - 'From Feldenkrais to Improvised Movement and Writing' (Online & Face to Face)
Date: Every Wednesday from March 2nd to April 6th
Time: 9am to 1pm
Where: Online (Zoom) or Face to face: The Artworks London Bridge, 60A Weston St, SE1 3QP
Cost: £25.0 per session and £135.0 series – all sessions need to be booked in advance
Description:
This series will explore a different theme each week based on states of contraction, expansion and the potential to play with the biases we have in our movement and way of being. Each workshop can be attended separately however each session will build on the next in the series.
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