Welcome to Lapidus International

Guided writing with Greek Boreas, Celtic Cailleach & other winter spirits: blending two live circle sessions with slow, asynchronous and independent exploration.

Step into a season of stillness, myth, and creative tending.
This intimate hybrid experience weaves two live expressive-writing circles with gentle, private journaling and guided prompts between sessions, shared in a warm WhatsApp space and supported by supportive email follow-ups.

Together, we’ll walk with winter gods and ancestral figures (Boreas, Cailleach, and other winter spirits from European folklore) to explore what this season asks of us. In circle, you’ll be held as you write from your inner voice, witness others, and deepen your relationship with your quiet places. Between gatherings, you’ll continue your journey at your own pace, guided by prompts designed to nourish emotional hibernation, inner tending, and the quiet transformation winter offers.

A winter journey in community + on your own time.

Come write, reflect, and soften into the wisdom waiting beneath the snow.

We start on Sunday, the 14th December, with the first group call.

Group call dates:

Sunday, 14th December, 5 pm (CET) /12 pm (EST)
Sunday, 18th January 5 pm (CET) /12 pm (EST)
90-minutes calls

You’ll receive the asynchronous writing materials on weekly emails on Sundays: 21st, 28th of December, 4th and 11th January, with reads and writing prompts.
The calls won’t be recorded, but if you sign up, you will receive an audio recording guiding you through the materials.

Reclaim your voice. Rewrite your story. Restore connection

We tend to think of writing for wellbeing as journalling and poetry, but this fun, fast creative workshop explores the feel-good possibilities of all the genres – fiction, memoir, non-fiction and poetry. No experience needed, just a pen and paper and a spirit of adventure.

A two-hour workshop combining movement, awareness, poetry and expressive writing for creative inspiration and self-exploration.

The session is designed as a gentle Sunday afternoon retreat and will involve some movement sequences on the floor/ or a bed.

I will be running another workshop on December 14. Discounts available if you book more than one session. Please email for details.

A Sunday afternoon workshop (3 -5.30pm) combining movement, awareness, poetry and expressive writing for creative inspiration and self-exploration.
The session is designed as a gentle retreat and will involve movement sequences based on the Feldenkrais Method done lying on the floor or a bed.

An Internal Family Systems (IFS) and expressive writing workshop for calm, compassion, and connection during the festive season. Connect with the parts of you that come alive (or feel burdened) at Christmas

Unburden old memories, stories, and pressures tied to the festive season
Invite in new, chosen rituals rooted in peace and authenticity
Reduce stress and anxiety by strengthening connection with your core Self

Through a mix of guided meditations, gentle writing prompts, small-group reflection, and moments of stillness you can reconnect with your core self: the calm, compassionate presence that can hold all parts of you with love.

The festive season can stir up a ‘parts party’ inside us: the perfectionist, the people-pleaser, the exhausted caregiver, the inner child longing for magic, the one who just wants to escape it all.

This online session invites you to bring gentle curiosity to these parts through creative and therapeutic writing. Using principles from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and expressive journaling, we’ll explore how to listen to, honour, and soothe the different voices within us, so we can approach the holidays with greater self-compassion, clarity, and calm.

Our scars hold traces of what we’ve lived — reminders of what the body has endured and how it has repaired itself. In this two-hour online workshop, we’ll explore these traces through reflective writing and body attention. You’ll be guided through acknowledging your scars and interacting with them, noticing their unique landscapes and the qualities they bring to your life. The focus is not on retelling the past but on listening to what your scars communicate now: resilience, protection, tenderness, perhaps even beauty. Through words, breath, movement, and attention, we’ll meet the marks that shaped us with curiosity and compassion.

This workshop is for you if you…
– have a scar — physical or emotional — that still draws your attention.
– want to reconnect with a part of your body that feels numb, distant, or changed.
– sense that healing happened on the surface, but something still lingers underneath.
– wish to soften feelings of judgment or shame about your body.

Led by Elaine Konopka, somatic practitioner, writer, and editor. She is the founder of The Attentive Body online and in Paris, where she teaches body awareness to help people live healthier, more intense lives. An avid believer in the power of the written word, she has been facilitating writing workshops for over a decade.

Sunday, November 9th, 2 – 4 pm UK time
Standard rate: 25 €
Supporter rate: 30 €