Welcome to Lapidus International

Writing for Wellbeing Workshop for women in the beautiful setting of Scampston Walled Garden. The theme is Nostalgia: Past and Present. No prior experience needed, just bring along a notebook and pen.
Workshops held monthly.
Punctual start at 11 am, finishing at 12:30 pm. Arrive 15 minutes before for tea and coffee (provided). Ticket cost is £15 to charity.

This is a five week online course starting Tuesday 14th April, 7-9pm. £175 Bursaries available. Please inquire.

This course will look at poems from poets (or their families) who have been displaced from their homeland, and exploring and experiencing the new insights and beautiful alchemy these poems work on us.

Each session will look at two poets, and time will be given to feel deeper into the poems with all our senses, and time to write your own response to the poem, and a chance to share it in a supportive community of writers. These writers of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual backgrounds fresh insights and portals into deeper perspectives on ourselves and our lives.

Led by Poet, Poetry Healing Practitioner, Focusing Teacher, Bethany Rivers (M.A.). She is mixed race and neurodivergent. She has two poetry chapbooks published with Indigo Dreams (Off the wall), and Fly on the Wall Press (the sea refuses no river). She is author of Fountain of Creativity: Ways to nourish your writing from Victorina Press, and has been teaching creative writing and writing for wellbeing for 20 years.

Photo is of Lorenzo Quinn’s sculpture Building Bridges.

Come and play with your creativity in this deeply relaxing and inspiring workshop series! This is a three-part series that will run over three Mondays in February (2, 9, 16), and you can buy tickets for one or all three (details below and in link).

We’ll use a guided relaxation practice called yoga nidra to access divergent thinking (the type of thinking that drives new ideas and possibilities). We’ll combine this with writing prompts to access new ideas in your writing (or other creative practice if you wish).

There will also be time to chat and share your writing (all optional of course).

Everyone welcome!

Date, time & location:
Three Mondays in February, 6–7pm (2/2, 9/2, 16/2)
Live online on Zoom

Individual sessions (£16 per session)
or book all three and save (£45)

Do you have a longing for feeling at peace with who you are, right here and now?

The only problem is, you have no idea of how to shut up the inner critic that lives inside you mind!

You know, the one that keeps telling you you’re not enough, you didn’t do enough, or that you’re just too much or too little of this and that…

We all have different stories on repeat from the inner critic, but we all share the experience of knowing how it feels to be judged by our own mind.

In this poetry and writing therapy workshop, we’ll work on:

-Exploring the unique ways your inner critic shows up in your life.

-Soften its voice through the gentle power of creative expression.

-Re-write your relationship with your inner critic, moving from self-judgment toward self-compassion.

It’s the workshop to join for you who want to befriend your inner voice!

This workshop is a collaboration between Hanna Svendsen from Writing Therapy Center (https://writingtherapycenter.com/) & Maria Ortega Garcia – transdisciplinary poetry therapy practitioner and educator (https://mariaortegagarcia.com)

You’ll get a Google Meet link to your inbox directly after signing up, so you can easily see the right time for the meeting, regardless of your time zone.
It’s a live workshop that will not be recorded, so you need to attend it at the scheduled time.

Explore embodied writing as a way to catalyse your creativity and shift your wellbeing writing.

We’ll use a guided relaxation practice called yoga nidra, which allows us to deeply relax and connect to our bodies, as well as potentially access divergent thinking (the type of thinking that drives new ideas and possibilities). We’ll combine this with writing prompts to play new ideas in your writing (or other creative practice if you wish).

There will also be time to chat and share your writing (all optional of course).

Details
– Three Mondays in February, 6–7pm (2/2, 9/2, 16/2)
– Live online on Zoom
– £16 per session, or save and book all three for £45

Humming Home is a 2-hour therapeutic writing workshop exploring belonging, homeland, and the journey home, wherever that may be.

Through gentle breathing and humming practices, poetry from across cultures, and guided writing prompts inspired by Toni Morrison, Mahmoud Darwish, Joy Harjo and others, you are invited to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with a felt sense of home. Humming, an instinctive, soothing sound, becomes both a mindfulness practice and a metaphor for the liminal spaces we move through as we leave, return, and redefine where we belong.

Facilitated by María Ortega García, PTP, from https://mariaortegagarcia.com