This residential course at Ty Newydd Writing Centre will explore the potential of creative and expressive writing to promote our own and others’ health and wellbeing.
The course will draw on your own experience to explore the different ways writing can be used to reflect deeply on life experience, in sickness and in health, and to bring these findings to others, whatever their ability or experience. It will be of interest to both beginners and experienced writers, as well as medical and healthcare professionals, counsellors, therapists, social workers, librarians, academics, teachers, service users and service providers in a variety of health and therapeutic environments. We will work to develop a supportive, joyful and safe context for exploring writing and our lives. Certificates of attendance for this course can be provided.
Tutors
Graham Hartill teaches on the MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute and is a co-founder of Lapidus, the UK-wide organisation for creative writing and wellbeing.
Victoria Field writes poetry, fiction, drama and memoir and works as a poetry therapist. She mentors trainees for the long-established International Federation for Biblio-Poetry Therapy. www.thepoetrypractice.co.uk
Guest Reader
Rachel Kelly's memoir about her experience of serious depression, Black Rainbow, was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2014. She has worked as a journalist with The Times and Vogue.
Dates: Monday 13 - Saturday 18 November 2017
Venue: Ty Newydd Writing Centre, Gwynedd, Wales LL52 0LW
Cost: From £495 - £625 per person
Further information and details of how to book available
here