Welcome to Lapidus International
The Writing For Wellbeing Community
Lapidus International is a membership organisation which offers a range of resources to support writing for wellbeing.
This includes development opportunities, exclusive member events, access to the latest research, and a supportive network to enhance both personal and professional writing practice.
Upcoming Events
- Lapidus Member Event Only
Mitigating Stress and Enhancing Creativity among Teachers in Croatia
Presenter: Emica Calogjera
Saturday 2nd August, 16:00pm-17:15pm.
Event details coming soon
About the Presenter
Presenter details coming soon.
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85163678537
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. FREE AND NO TICKETS REQUIRED. Use the Zoom link above to access the event.
Practices that connect our mind and bodies, like yoga and yoga nidra (a type of relaxing meditation) can help to support our wellbeing – but could they also help us tune into our sense of play and creativity?
Join us for an intimate (10 participants max) playful workshop, designed to connect body, mind and creativity. We’ll use a mixture of yoga practices and fully guided writing exercises to open up to new possibilities. Our ambition is for you to leave with a renewed sense of freedom and confidence to keep exploring your creative life.
Come as you are, whether that’s writer or non-writer, beginner or experienced yogi.
What the workshop includes
A chance to practise three kinds of yoga (physical practice, guided meditation designed to boost creativity, and restorative relaxation)
Practices designed to open up your body and get ‘unstuck’
Simple, playful writing exercises to reconnect with your own creativity (e.g. writing in response to image prompts)
A chance to connect with likeminded others
Tea and nibbles, including specially selected writing enhancement snacks
A goodie bag, with a book, a notebook, a pen, a room spray to support relaxation
Who is it for?
Anyone who wants to reconnect with and develop their playfulness and creativity in a safe and collaborative space.
In these troubling times it can feel hard to find any joy in life. Yet it is there – in the flowers blooming as spring arrives, the birds singing, the blue skies and clouds overhead, the laughter of a child, the gentle touch of a friend’s hand.
Join me in a simple four week series of Zoom gatherings on Wednesdays at 11.00 am UK time, beginning on Wednesday 7th May running through to Wednesday 28th May.
The fee for the four the four Zoom gatherings, plus a private recording of each one, and photos of the cards I draw for you, is £80, with payment in two instalments available if that helps, and I also have some concessionary places at £60.
If you are in the UK, payment by bank transfer is good, if you prefer or if you are overseas, there is a PayPal link on the ‘Ticket URL’ link below.
To ask any questions, to book your place or to pay by bank transfer, please contact me
The flow of each Zoom gathering will be similar to other sessions you may have attended, opening and closing with Your Compass Rose Speaks, drawing Dare to Blossom Cards for each of us, and taking us on a Magic Carpet Ride guided visualisation. The circle is a quiet safe space to hear yourself think, and to share as litte or as much as you would like – we are all here to witness for each other and be companions along the way for a while, walking our way home together.
There will be no Facebook group for this programme so could be ideal for you if you prefer not to interact there. I will send photos of the cards, and a private link to the recordings of each Zoom to you by email or via Messenger, whichever you prefer.
Writing for Wellbeing Workshops for Women are held every few weeks in a conservatory within the beautiful grounds of Scampston Hall. Teas/coffees provided and a cafe is available for lunches.
Booking is essential as numbers are limited to 10. For further information visit essenceofwriting.com
We are all born with a wild imagination. It is through this unlimited creative resource that we can access the unconscious, connect with our intuition, develop a greater degree of self-awareness and expand our sense of possibility. Fire Your Wild Imagination will be a chance to explore this vast inner superpower through a holistic practice underpinned by Jungian psychology, creative writing and journaling designed to facilitate creativity, foster self-discovery & facilitate transformative growth with the gentle guidance of Dr Rachel.
Fire Your Wild Imagination will include daily depth writing workshops focused on cultivating creativity through attuning to your curious inner child, your wise inner sage and the wisdom of nature. The retreat will take place at the rustic and charming historic family home of Monte da Japonica and its surrounding cork woods.
The retreat is for writers, creative & therapeutic practitioners, seekers, inner explorers and those on a journey of self-discovery who are curious about how writing & imagination can be used to support transformative growth and would like to dive deeper. The focus of the retreat will be on process, rather than outcome, and on what comes up in the writing, rather than craft and you’ll be invited to work with the material at a level that feels right for you. For those who have a writing or other creative practice, depth-writing can be used as an adjacent activity to support, deepen and expand your projects. Wherever you are at, this retreat is a chance to fire the creative, healing superpower of the wild imagination that courses through all of us.
Cost: single & shared rooms from £495 (For individual room costs, send me an email)
Deposit: £125
About Rachel
Rachel Newsome, PhD, is an independent writer, teacher and creative guide with twenty years of experience as a former lecturer in Higher Education. She holds a Jungian arts-based doctorate in Creative Writing and delivers a programme of depth writing offerings aimed at supporting transformational growth in others. She is Co-Editor of forthcoming Routledge publication ‘The Creative Psyche: Between Matter & Spirit’ and is regular speaker for the UK public education platform Seed Talks. She is author of Depth Writing with Dr Rachel on Substack and serves on the London Arts-Based Research Centre editorial team.
Writing For Wellbeing & Activism – A 2-day event
Writing has the power to uncover, heal, and transform. As we write, we shape our world and ourselves.
Inspired by this belief, Lapidus International invites you to participate in a two-day conference that explores the intersections of writing, wellbeing, and activism. This conference is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, writers, and activists from around the world to share knowledge and engage in dialogue on the role of writing in personal healing and social transformation.
This gathering aims to bring together participants from various disciplines to investigate how writing for wellbeing can also serve as a vehicle for activism. We welcome diverse perspectives that examine writing as a method of supporting mental health, fostering resilience, and creating social change.
To find out more and book tickets please click here.
Join Lapidus International...
…from as little as £3.50 per month.
As a Lapidus Member, you are part of a supportive, international writing for wellbeing community who believe in the power of using words to enhance and transform.
You’ll receive a monthly newsletter, get discounts on events and training, have access to our online library of Lapidus journals and more. All for as little as £3 per month!
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