Writing for wellbeing and self-awareness

Read Write Express offers workshops for adults who wish to explore writing as a means of improving wellbeing, gaining confidence and moving forward with life.

The workshops provide a nurturing and supportive space to experience different writing and other fun, releasing and relaxing exercises to help participants stimulate their creativity and encourage self-awareness. Writing experience is not essential, just a willingness to join in and give it a go.

Writing is optionally shared with the group and participants are encouraged to respond from their own experience of hearing it as opposed to offering a critique. This is the difference between writing for self-development and creative writing for literary development. Writing and voicing writing in this way can be therapeutic but these workshops are not group therapy and participants need to be aware of this when choosing what to write or share.

Writing for wellbeing workshop – Saturday 11 September 2021 – 9.45am to 12.30pm  

In the space between

Through reading, reflection, free-writing and sharing, we will contemplate the theme of “the space between” and what this means to us with the help of a poem.   For this workshop you will need a notebook and pen.  To book, click here.

Writing for wellbeing workshop – Saturday 9 October 2021 – 9.45am to 12.30pm  

Perseverance

Through reading, reflection, free-writing and sharing, we will contemplate the theme of “perseverance” and what this means to us with the help of a poem.   For this workshop you will need a notebook and pen.  To book, click here.

For further info and for news of other workshops, check the website