- Event Date: 06/10/2026
Celebrating Friendship in All its Forms (2-hour workshop)
Event Details
- 19:00
- Via Zoom
- From £35
Event Description
Romantic love gets plenty of attention, but what about the importance of friends to our health and wellbeing?
I invite you to explore and celebrate friendship with me via Zoom. This workshop is for fun and to celebrate all friendships, including the connections we have been building within Self-Centring’s writing community. And the research is clear. Having a supportive network and closeness with others increases our resilience. In an increasingly fractured and isolated world, we can feel surprisingly alone – even when in company. What I hope to offer here is an opportunity to real connection.
We will explore friendship in its many forms through visual and written prompts – some concrete, some abstract, playful and reflective – whatever inspires you on the day.
This 2-hour session will include short writing prompts, quiet time to write, and opportunities for sharing and reflection. No writing experience is needed, and there’s no pressure to perform or get things “right.”
If you’re curious about friendship, interested in reflective writing, or are simply looking for a gentle, structured space to think alongside others, you are warmly welcome to join us. Attendees are invited to contribute some of their words to a friendship post if they wish to.
Friendship built this workshop
I first created this workshop with my good friend Alison Cable. She’s a fellow writing for wellbeing facilitator and, at the time, we were co-editors of Lapidus magazine. Now, with Alison’s blessing, I am bringing an extended version to my Substack community, in thanks for the warm welcome this year and my wonderful members that have make this community special.
Free for Substack members, £35 for non-members: https://www.self-centred.com/
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How can writing about the fragility of previous life experiences connect with who we are today, and how we can write in the current? What power does this hold in being able to express ourselves with more confidence and clarity in the future?
In this session, I shall reflect on how I first came to writing as a tool for my mental health, allowing me to name and understand traumatic past experiences and feel my way through the climate and ecological emergency. Consequently, I shall discuss how the arts have positively challenged and supported changes I have made in my life.
Though short writing prompts and discussion, I shall also invite participants to consider these connections for themselves.
About Lottie Williams
Lottie Williams is an award winning writer and writing practitioner based in West Wales. She won the Nigel Jenkins Literary Award and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her debut book, ‘The Edge of Everything’, was published by the H’mm Foundation in 2025.
As a facilitator, Lottie trained with Sgwennu Well, a year long writing for wellbeing programme delivered by Literature Wales. She also draws on her background in teaching and as a regular participant of therapeutic writing sessions.
Lottie has provided writing well workshops for charities, social enterprises, schools and groups across South and West Wales.
Join the meeting:
Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81124654743?pwd=lIhOUita3l7mwmVhDgvvlolwHh4IaW.1
Meeting ID: 811 2465 4743
Passcode: 786686
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.
A friendly, pressure-free, monthly expressive writing session aimed at deepening self-awareness, self-understanding and self-connection.
Maximum of 8 participants. No writing experience necessary.
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