Lapidus Events

We will use images, photos, poems, prose and ordinary things around us as a stimulus for writing.

This is an opportunity for self expression, self exploration, self care, finding your voice, fun, getting creative… whatever! All in the safe space of the group.  No need to commit to coming every month. You can come to just one session, or them all, or something in between. No previous experience necessary and no one has to share anything they have written. There will be an opportunity to share for those that want to.

With Sue Walters, a Creative Writing for Wellbeing practitioner, writer and researcher.

To book, please send me an email telling me that you would like to attend and I will send you  the Zoom link for the session. (Please email me before 9.30am on the day).

Tickets cost £10 per session (£5 if money is tight; free for anyone on benefits) payable by bank transfer.

Lapidus Humber-on-Tweed (HOT) are holding their final meeting of 2024 on Saturday November 16th from 10am-3.30pm with workshops to inspire & develop your writing and creativity.

Welcome, tea & coffee, 9.30 am-09.55am.

A creative and nourishing day is promised.

The new space is large enough to accommodate us and outdoor space for wandering at lunch if weather allows. The venue is accessible.

If you would like further information or wish to attend, please contact Sue Spencer.

Lapidus London are delighted that  highly experienced facilitator and author Anne Taylor will be running a workshop on Saturday 16th November at Calthorpe Community Garden in Kings Cross.

The meeting will run from 1-3.30pm and, as always, there will be time fordiscussion and networking with other members, too.

Anne writes: “Come Home to Your Self” is a workshop drawing on movement, awareness and writingfor creative inspiration and self-exploration. This workshop will introduce participants to ways in which playful movement sequences, combinedwith close attention, can bring us home to an enhanced sense of ourselves and our authentic writing voice.”

As well as providing an introduction to Feldenkrais, a somatic learning method which she qualified in four years ago, Anne will talk about its relationship to creativity and the ways in which she has blended somatic awareness and movement with her work as a therapeutic writing facilitator with various groups.

Using this line from Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese as a backdrop these workshops will combine mindful movement sequences based on the Feldenkrais Method of somatic learning with expressive and reflective writing. We will use gentle exploratory movement sequences with writing prompts and poetry to encourage connection with our selves and to stimulate creativity and self-reflection. These sessions are suitable for anyone looking for a safe supportive space for relaxation, play and inspiration on a Sunday afternoon. No previous experience of Feldenkrais or writing required.

This workshop is one of a series of four running throughout November. Each session will have its own theme and can be experienced as a stand-alone event.
Nov 3,10,17 and 24
3-5.30pm GMT
Spaces are limited.

£28 per session
£95 for all four workshops
Discounts available.

Please email for more information and booking link.

The intent of this workshop is to hold space for you as you think and write about someone you have loved and lost – friend, family, or anyone who had an impact on your life. Beyond simple remembrance, we will try to seek out and name the essence of the person, what was given and received through their presence, and what, perhaps, continues after their departure. I’ll also guide you through some simple somatic exercises that invite you to connect to your roots and make room for whatever’s in your heart.

If you are missing someone as the holiday season approaches, if you’d like to honor or deepen your connection to an important figure in your life, if you would like a gentle, grounded approach to opening your heart to the dead, this workshop is for you. I hope you’ll join us.

With Elaine Konopka, writer and somatic practitioner
Sunday, November 17th, 4 to 5:30 pm
20€

Constellating your Story: How am I here?
Do you ever wonder about the choices you have made? About what’s brought you to this place in your life? About how you are here? And how it feels? In this workshop we will explore these themes through personal reflection and guided activities.

This immersive workshop uses innovative processes from story-making and systemic constellations, designed to help you explore deeply held, limiting self-beliefs and open up to fresh perspectives. We invite exploration through storytelling, creative exercises and constellating; a process of opening up to the bigger picture of the system of relationships and ancestry that we are connected to.

What does change have to do with healing?

We use bespoke illustrations to invite the instrumental brain to take a break, allowing the imagination to wander in less familiar places, and surprise us with what is found there.

https://www.an-inside-story.co.uk/
This is the first of a series of 3 hour, online Sunday Workshops, each of which follows a theme.

Using this line from Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese as a backdrop these workshops will combine mindful movement sequences based on the Feldenkrais Method of somatic learning with expressive and reflective writing. We will use gentle exploratory movement sequences with writing prompts and poetry to encourage connection with our selves and to stimulate creativity and self-reflection. These sessions are suitable for anyone looking for a safe supportive space for relaxation, play and inspiration on a Sunday afternoon. No previous experience of Feldenkrais or writing required.

This workshop is one of a series of four running throughout November. Each session will have its own theme and can be experienced as a stand-alone event.
Nov 3,10,17 and 24
3-5.30pm GMT
Spaces are limited.

£28 per session
£95 for all four workshops
Discounts available.

Please email for more information and booking link.

Writing for Wellbeing for Women is held regularly in a spacious conservatory in the beautiful grounds of Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire. No prior knowledge is needed. Please bring a notepad and pen/pencil
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

Poets have long celebrated human connectedness to the seasonal cycles of nature — from winter’s retreat and reflection, to the hopes and blooms of spring, to the bursting brightness of summer, to autumn’s shifts and preparations.

In this series of Writing for Wellbeing workshops, we will look to the poetry of seasons to inspire our own writing and reflection. Writing through the seasons, we’ll celebrate change, spark creativity, and resist stagnancy in our own lives.

Spring, Summer and Autumn workshops will be announced later in the year, currently scheduled for March, June, and October.

Get the New Year off to a creative start with my brand new writing day in celebration of new beginnings – it’s a lovely mix of poetry and fiction. (Gift certificate available if you’d like to treat a writing friend)

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/

If your body could speak, what would it say? Have you ever had a conversation with it on the page?

In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to connect with our bodies and hear their voices through writing. Kate will also share learnings from her MSc research on mind-body writing and reflections on how they still shape her life all these years later.

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