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Prompted to Write Book Launch
on Saturday 18th September at 2.30pm, Truro Library, Cornwall
Lapidus Cornwall's 'Prompted to Write' 2nd Edition contains articles, poems and stories by over 30 contributors who participated in a three year lottery-funded series of workshops and training events. Some of the contributors are renowned in the field of reading and writing for health and well-being and some are widely published poets. For some other contributors, the book contains their first published piece of writing
Read more on
News & Events page
New national resource for creativity and health
see details at
Culture & Wellbeing Website
Lapidus new Board
Lapidus has a new team of Board members appointed at the EGM on 31st July
Read more on
News & Events page
Medicine Unboxed: Stories, Language and Medicine
starts from the premise that 'medicine is arguably as rooted in the arts as science'
and offers a programme of conferences which aspires to explore this view of medicine with front-line NHS staff. It is entirely an NHS initiative begun in 2009 through Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, again this year in partnership with the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. See
Medicine Unboxed for details
Lapidus Scotland weekend workshops with Ted Bowman 4-5th September
see
Scotland page for details
Lapidus at Hay Festival
read about the event in
News & Events
Lapidus Journal
Go to the Lapidus Journal page by
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to access your copy of the Journal online - free to Lapidus Members
Latest issue includes
Sheila Hayman describing her work with the writing group at the Medical Foundation for the
Care of Victims of Torture supporting refugees and asylum seekers
Sue Spencer and Anne Neale discussing using writing in reflective practice with student nurses
Gill Gustar exploring management coaching and the 'potent act' of writing
Larry Butler reviewing Writing Your Self - Transforming Personal Material
by John Killick & Myra Schneider
and describing the launch and day of activities at Lapidus Scotland
plus a round-up of what regional Lapidus groups have been getting up to
Lapidus South West anthology
Lapidus South West held a party to celebrate the launch of their first anthology of poetry and short stories: Elements of Healing
See
Lapidus South West page
Storytelling and Health: Voices of Experience - report on the May symposium in Cardiff by Sylvia Perry
Sylvia Perry, Regional Co-ordinator Lapidus Cymru, attended this symposium organised by StoryWorks at the University of Glamorgan and Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff
See
Members' Zone Writings page for her detailed report on the day, the organisations and the people involved
Research Project in Glasgow
Larry Butler of Lapidus Scotland with staff at Glasgow University is designing a participatory, action-research project to evaluate the experiential impacts of creative writing for recovery, well-being and the quality of life of people with enduring mental health problems
See
News & Events
Poetry & Medicine Programme clips online
Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine is a multi-hour television program on the poetry of illness and recovery. See
News & Events
Poetry, science and collaboration for ecological awareness - Scotland
In May, July and August workshops inviting participants to 'Mind, Remind, Remember' will be held in Glasgow, Fife and near Edinburgh where participants will interact with plots of land making sculptures, poems, warnings, tributes, epitaphs & blessings considering biodiversity - the tapestry of infinitely varied organisms and habitats
See Lapidus Scotland page for details
New webpage
Read about a current practitioner of therapeutic creative writing
at
Practitioner Profile
Lapidus Regional Groups' Activities
See Regional Groups for details of projects, events and conferences
Lapidus Journal
Latest issue downloadable free for members and via Paypal for non-members at
Lapidus Journal
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