- Event Date: 09/01/2025
Meeting Myself Coming Back
Event Details
- 02:00
- Online on Zoom
- From £150
Event Description
Emma’s journal has been her closest friend throughout her life. She had her first powerful moment of insight and breakthrough when journalling as a teenager and has not stopped the personal writing process since. In 2020 she began revisiting these writings and wrote again, creating a new piece of work – a script-in-hand performance. The process brought her new clarity and acceptance about her life and became the study for her Masters degree in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, see also her article in LIRIC journal.
https://www.flipsnack.com/lapidus/liric-volume-3-issue-1/full-view.html
Emma offers this process now as a 6 week online course during which you will be supported and guided to revisit a journal of your own and make something new of it. The course gives an opportunity to look again at our diaries in a supported, guided, creative way – feeling the feelings that may arise, cultivating gentleness for self (then and now) – and re-writing our story from where we are now, an ever-changing mark. From there we can look ahead with more clarity about our diaries, our lives – and what we might want to do with both going forwards.
Thurs 9 Jan – Thurs 13 Feb 2025
2pm – 4pm
6 consecutive weeks
Pay As You Feel £150-£200 for 6 weeks
Deposit £50 to book
More information: https://emmadecent.co.uk/meeting-myself-coming-back/
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As part of the workshop:
- We’ll explore activities to help us connect with our bodies through writing
- We’ll take some time for relaxation and reflection
- Kate will share her research findings, their impact and additional learnings 10 years on
Like the sound of the workshop but can’t make this date? You can find out more and register your interest via the link below
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Booking is essential as numbers are limited and this venue is popular. Cafe may be closed so bring a packed lunch is you would like, or there is a cafe locally or in the nearby town of Malton. For further information please contact sandie@essenceofwriting or visit www.sandie@essenceofwriting.com
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Poetry Therapy In Working With War Trauma
Presenter: Anna Liudnova
Saturday 7th December, 10:00am-11:15am.
How can we use poetry therapy in working with war trauma? The results of group workshops by Ukrainian volunteer Anna Liudnova include diagnostic tools, the book “Dialogue with Yourself: Recovery through Writing,” and the poetry performance “The Voice of Emotions in Motion.”
In her presentation, Anna will talk about:
· The performance: “The Voice of Emotions in Motion”
· Multidisciplinary approach to working with war trauma in Ukraine (Categories: Wounded military personnel (volunteering in hospitals), veterans and their families; internally displaced persons (including those from occupied territories or those who have completely lost their homes). Results of diagnostic tools and specific cases/stories of workshop participants and individual sessions.
· The book “Dialogue with Yourself: Recovery through Writing”. This book is bilingual and includes a foreword by Nicholas Mazza, an interview with Sherry Reiter, a section with writing prompts that Ukrainian psychologists and writers can use, and anyone can practice at home. It also contains poetry by Nicholas Mazza, Sherry Reiter and Catherine Tanguis; my own poems created during the war, as well as texts from participants of my workshops: military personnel, veterans, and their families.
· She will also offer a writing prompt.
About the Presenter
Anna Shevchuk (pseudonym: Anna Liudnova) is a writer, folklorist, art critic, performer, and volunteer. She is studying to be a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator with the International Federation for Biblio-Poetry Therapy, and is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Poetry Therapy. She is an expert in the field of cultural and creative industries at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Ukrainian Book Institute. She is the founder of the Folklore Studio “Vytoky” (“Roots”) for kids, teenagers and adults and a facilitator of the research project at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She volunteers with military personnel, veterans, and their families.
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87581622839
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.