- Event Date: 04/07/2026
Living Research Community July seminar with Alison Cable
Event Details
- 10am UK time
- Online via Zoom
- From £0
Event Description
Writing, Weaving, and Story: A Heuristic Self-Study
This session explores creative writing as a mode of inquiry, drawing on a heuristic self-study engaging with the figure of Penelope from The Odyssey. I will share how writing and weaving came together within my research process as ways of exploring and re-shaping story.
I reflect on midlife as a period of change and reconfiguration and consider how arts-based practices—such as blackout poetry, dialogue, and textile work—supported processes of meaning-making in my own experience.
It will be informal and practice-based, with a short, gentle writing invitation for participants to try out some of these approaches in relation to their own research or practice.
About Alison Cable
Alison Cable is a writer and creative writing facilitator working in the field of Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP). She completed an MSc at Metanoia Institute with distinction, where her research explored writing and weaving as heuristic, arts-based methods for narrative inquiry, with a focus on midlife and story.
She has served as Co-Editor and Board Member for Lapidus International and currently facilitates reading and writing groups in community and educational settings, including The Reader and the London Literary Salon. Her work is interested in creative writing as a reflective and exploratory practice, particularly in relation to experience, identity, and change. She is particularly interested in poetry, reading aloud, and shared reading, and in conversations about literature and how stories are told and retold.
Joining the event
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89827230742
Meeting ID: 898 2723 0742
Please note that this event will be recorded. The recording will be available for a limited time after the live event. Please allow a couple of working days for us to process and upload the recording after the live event.
For questions before or after the day of the event, please contact Flo on membership@lapidus.org.uk (responses on Tuesdays and Fridays). For queries on the day of the event, please contact mel@write4word.org.
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. LLRC events are free and no tickets are required. Use the Zoom link above to access the event.
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- Event Date: 04/07/2026
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