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
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.
Join us for our 2024 AGM!
The Session Will Include:
- Work & achievements from 2024
- Plans for the future
- Reports from the Board
- Financial accounts
Plus: Special Guest Speaker Doctor Victoria Field
Victoria, who has an extensive writing background as well as being IFBPT-qualified (International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy), – will be running a writing exercise during the session.
Zoom Link:
Get the New Year off to a creative start with my brand new writing day in celebration of new beginnings – it’s a lovely mix of poetry and fiction. (Gift certificate available if you’d like to treat a writing friend)
The intent of this workshop is to hold space for you as you think and write about someone you have loved and lost – friend, family, or anyone who had an impact on your life. Beyond simple remembrance, we will try to seek out and name the essence of the person, what was given and received through their presence, and what, perhaps, continues after their departure. I’ll also guide you through some simple somatic exercises that invite you to connect to your roots and make room for whatever’s in your heart.
If you are missing someone as the holiday season approaches, if you’d like to honor or deepen your connection to an important figure in your life, if you would like a gentle, grounded approach to opening your heart to the dead, this workshop is for you. I hope you’ll join us.
With Elaine Konopka, writer and somatic practitioner
Sunday, November 17th, 4 to 5:30 pm
20€
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