Welcome to Lapidus International
Weaving our words for wellbeing: making connections across our changing world.
Lapidus International is a membership organisation which offers a range of resources, including academic tools, development opportunities, events, and a supportive network to enhance both personal and professional writing practice.
Upcoming Events
If your body could speak, what would it say? Have you ever had a conversation with it on the page?
In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to connect with our bodies and hear their voices through writing. Kate will also share learnings from her MSc research on mind-body writing and reflections on how they still shape her life all these years later.
As part of the workshop:
- We’ll explore activities to help us connect with our bodies through writing
- We’ll take some time for relaxation and reflection
- Kate will share her research findings, their impact and additional learnings 10 years on
Like the sound of the workshop but can’t make this date? You can find out more and register your interest via the link below
Writing for Wellbeing for Women is held regularly in a spacious conservatory in the beautiful grounds of Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire. No prior knowledge is needed. Please bring a notepad and pen/pencil
Booking is essential as numbers are limited and this venue is popular. Cafe may be closed so bring a packed lunch is you would like, or there is a cafe locally or in the nearby town of Malton. For further information please contact sandie@essenceofwriting or visit www.sandie@essenceofwriting.com
- Lapidus Member Event Only
Poetry Therapy In Working With War Trauma
Presenter: Anna Liudnova
Saturday 7th December, 10:00am-11:15am.
How can we use poetry therapy in working with war trauma? The results of group workshops by Ukrainian volunteer Anna Liudnova include diagnostic tools, the book “Dialogue with Yourself: Recovery through Writing,” and the poetry performance “The Voice of Emotions in Motion.”
In her presentation, Anna will talk about:
· The performance: “The Voice of Emotions in Motion”
· Multidisciplinary approach to working with war trauma in Ukraine (Categories: Wounded military personnel (volunteering in hospitals), veterans and their families; internally displaced persons (including those from occupied territories or those who have completely lost their homes). Results of diagnostic tools and specific cases/stories of workshop participants and individual sessions.
· The book “Dialogue with Yourself: Recovery through Writing”. This book is bilingual and includes a foreword by Nicholas Mazza, an interview with Sherry Reiter, a section with writing prompts that Ukrainian psychologists and writers can use, and anyone can practice at home. It also contains poetry by Nicholas Mazza, Sherry Reiter and Catherine Tanguis; my own poems created during the war, as well as texts from participants of my workshops: military personnel, veterans, and their families.
· She will also offer a writing prompt.
About the Presenter
Anna Shevchuk (pseudonym: Anna Liudnova) is a writer, folklorist, art critic, performer, and volunteer. She is studying to be a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator with the International Federation for Biblio-Poetry Therapy, and is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Poetry Therapy. She is an expert in the field of cultural and creative industries at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Ukrainian Book Institute. She is the founder of the Folklore Studio “Vytoky” (“Roots”) for kids, teenagers and adults and a facilitator of the research project at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She volunteers with military personnel, veterans, and their families.
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87581622839
About the Lapidus Living Research Community
The Lapidus Living Research Community (LLRC) meets on the first Saturday of every month via Zoom to discuss all things research, with a focus on qualitative arts-based research practices, theory and methods.
All Lapidus members are welcome, regardless of research experience.
Constellating your Story: How am I here?
Do you ever wonder about the choices you have made? About what’s brought you to this place in your life? About how you are here? And how it feels? In this workshop we will explore these themes through personal reflection and guided activities.
This immersive workshop uses innovative processes from story-making and systemic constellations, designed to help you explore deeply held, limiting self-beliefs and open up to fresh perspectives. We invite exploration through storytelling, creative exercises and constellating; a process of opening up to the bigger picture of the system of relationships and ancestry that we are connected to.
We use bespoke illustrations to invite the instrumental brain to take a break, allowing the imagination to wander in less familiar places, and surprise us with what is found there.
https://www.an-inside-story.co.uk/
This is the first of a series of 3 hour, online Sunday Workshops, each of which follows a theme.
Lapidus London are delighted that highly experienced facilitator and author Anne Taylor will be running a workshop on Saturday 16th November at Calthorpe Community Garden in Kings Cross.
The meeting will run from 1-3.30pm and, as always, there will be time fordiscussion and networking with other members, too.
Anne writes: “Come Home to Your Self” is a workshop drawing on movement, awareness and writingfor creative inspiration and self-exploration. This workshop will introduce participants to ways in which playful movement sequences, combinedwith close attention, can bring us home to an enhanced sense of ourselves and our authentic writing voice.”
As well as providing an introduction to Feldenkrais, a somatic learning method which she qualified in four years ago, Anne will talk about its relationship to creativity and the ways in which she has blended somatic awareness and movement with her work as a therapeutic writing facilitator with various groups.
Lapidus Humber-on-Tweed (HOT) are holding their final meeting of 2024 on Saturday November 16th from 10am-3.30pm with workshops to inspire & develop your writing and creativity.
Welcome, tea & coffee, 9.30 am-09.55am.
A creative and nourishing day is promised.
The new space is large enough to accommodate us and outdoor space for wandering at lunch if weather allows. The venue is accessible.
If you would like further information or wish to attend, please contact Sue Spencer.
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