Four 55-minute early morning mindfulness sessions to refresh your self and your writing. Tuesdays, 20th January to 10th February 2026. NAWE Member Discount available.
Mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress and improve well-being, clarity, happiness, memory, focus and creativity. It can bring more depth of awareness, emotion, empathy, experience, senses, detail and truth into your writing.
Each session focuses on a theme related to well being, with a prompt or two for writing. Writing with mindfulness gives your writing a refreshing edge.
'I so loved your mindfulness and poetry sessions – they bring me to a place of contentment and quiet creativity. 'Virginia Gilmour
About the facilitator: Australian Cath Drake is based in London. She was an award-winning environmental journalist and writer in Australia for a decade (and an environmental science graduate and tutor). Her poetry collection, The Shaking City (Seren Books), longlisted in the international Laurel Prize, highly commended in the UK Forward Prize, followed Sleeping with Rivers, Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Seren/Mslexia pamphlet prize. Other prizes include twice second place in the Ginkgo eco-poetry prize. She has been published widely in anthologies and literary journals internationally. Cath is also a mindfulness teacher and since 2020 she has hosted The Verandah, quality online poetry events for poets from both hemispheres.
Dates: Tuesdays 20 & 27 January and 3 & 10 February 2026, 7:50 am to 8.45am UK time (or up to 9am on 27 Jan & 10 Feb)
Location: Online on Zoom
Cost: £45
NAWE Member Discount: Get 10% off by using the code VERANDAH10 at the checkout.
Book your place here
Queries: verandah@cathdrake.com
More about The Verandah at www.cathdrake.com/