Have you ever been told and/or felt that your writing goes “too far”? That you make, or want to make, too many connections, too many associations? This workshop is for anyone who struggles to contain their ideas and themselves and does or does not want to.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the associations you make when you are writing or thinking about writing, such that these feelings prevent you from starting, continuing, or finishing a piece?
Do you want deadlines but don’t want deadlines? Do you want extensions but don’t want extensions? Do you want neither deadlines nor extensions but a secret third thing?
This workshop is for anyone who struggles to contain their ideas and themselves and does or does not want to. It’s for the associating ones (free, and otherwise), the hypermobiles, the ones on the edges or near, the fraying, friable, pliable, stretching, yearning, bending, reaching, soft, wide ones.
It’s for anyone who has ever felt:
• Overwhelmed by the intensity and range of (their) ideas;
• Overwhelmed by the thought and practices of writing;
• Unable to progress past the beginnings of ideas, mired in the land of false starts;
• Like there’s too much structure, or not enough structure, or not the right structure, or all of the above.
We will explore:
• Different ways to contain; different ways to extend our writing;
• Feeling our edges; finding our touchpoints
• Building capacity for feelings of overwhelm | paralysis | diffusion when it comes to our ideas and writing;
• Working with, not against, our own connection-making.
The exercises in the session will combine somatic and writing practices – however, this session is not only for writers! Come along if any of the above resonates with you. The session will be recorded and all participants will receive a playback.
Date: 25th February 2026, 7-9pm (GMT, Zoom)
Location: Online, over Zoom.
Cost: £15-25
Book your place here
Queries? Contact rne.charnock@gmail.com