Lapidus Events

Writing for Wellbeing workshop for women, held in the beautiful grounds of Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire. Coffee and tea on arrival. All proceeds go to the volunteer-run charity The Bothies. Punctual start at 11 am. Workshop finishes at 12:30 pm. Booking essential. Please contact me for any further information.

A new year. A new start.
At our first Lapidus London meeting of 2025, we’ll offer some writing prompts to help kickstart your imagination about individual or group creative projects you might want to begin, develop, or finish in 2025.

We’ll then introduce some journaling tools and exercises to help you turn your plans into reality, along with the opportunity to ask for feedback from a ready-made focus group of your peers.

As the date is Robert Burns’s 266th birthday, we will have some Scottish breakfast tea and themed snacks from north of the border to celebrate.

Our warm-up writing prompts will also be drawn from some of the Ploughman Poet’s poems.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

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

An invitation to women who would like to step out of the busy noise of modern life for 5 weekly sessions and take a hint from winter in the northern hemisphere and to root down into stillness and rest.

Join us as we set out on a creative and reflective ‘journey’ to the self and to new stories, through reflective writing and shared reading of carefully chosen poems.

These courses (see also the Flourish programme) have helped many women rescue and revive a sense of self as they negotiate so many common experiences: hormonal change, changes in independence and dependence, loss, grief, isolation, empty nests, divorce, retirement, loss of income – to name but a few.

Nourish will help us to claim new stories of fulfilment and self-expression, in a supportive small community, through challenging times, to help us heal and move on, to nuture our own needs and desire, and to find a restorative centre of calm.

In this 5-week programme of 2.5-hour workshops, we will look at our stories through the lenses of the seasons and of the cycles of life. We will share readings and discussions and have plenty of time to write in response to these. Sessions will take place on Fridays 31st Jan–7th March, 10am–12.30pm GMT. No session on 21st February.

Come and share and reclaim your own story in these safe and inspirational workshops.

Facilitated by Pam Winter and Kate Oldfield.

From Rumi to Rami: Bibliotherapy Practices in Türkiye

Presenter: Güssün Güneş

Saturday 1st February, 10:00am-11:15am.

Session Outline Coming Soon!

About the Presenter

Güssün Güneş is an academician at the national and international levels in the fields of information and document management, medical librarianship, health informatics, and bibliotherapy. Güneş, who took her first step into the world of information with her undergraduate education at Istanbul University, completed her academic journey with a doctoral study at Marmara University. She began her professional career as a librarian and lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, Koç University, where she contributed to the development of health sciences libraries. Since 2012, she has been successfully continuing both her academic career and administrative duties at Marmara University. Specializing in areas such as health literacy, digital libraries, metadata systems, and bibliotherapy, Güneş works on the effective use of information systems for medical and health sciences publishing. Through her academic publications, conference papers, and projects, she contributes to the development of information services in the health field.

Güneş is also prominent as an educator. She teaches courses on information organization, research methods in health sciences, museum studies, digital librarianship, at various universities. With both her academic and professional work, she leads projects that emphasize the impact of information management on public health, adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Offering a broad range of knowledge and experience from information management and the history of culture, and medical and academic publishing, Güneş continues her solution-oriented work in the fields of health, librarianship, preservation, and information and document management at both national and international levels.

Zoom Link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81659278607

Passcode: TBC

 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. FREE AND NO TICKETS REQUIRED. Use the Zoom link above to access the event.

We all believe in the capacity of expressive writing to help people heal, grow and change. But how do we connect our work to the people who could benefit from it? How do we define our target audiences, bring our services to their attention, and persuade them to sign up for our courses?

This online creative workshop on ‘Marketing with Soul’ for Lapidus London members and guests will offer some thought-provoking writing games and exercises to help stimulate your imagination and broaden and sharpen your marketing techniques and strategies, so you can reach more people with greater impact.

It will be led by Lapidus London’s co-coordinator, Jon Sayers, a former brand writer and advertising creative director. Jon has taught creative advertising workshops internationally, and is on the faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Institute for whom he teaches the annual marketing module.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

A series of monthly workshops that can help you explore feelings, and build your resilience as you connect with others in these challenging times.
The title theme for the workshops was inspired by a poem written by Deborah Cooper.
We will use carefully selected poems as a springboard for writing, reflection and conversations.

The workshops are for anyone who wants additional resources, in these unsettling times. It is for those who enjoy creativity, journalling, writing for personal or professional development.

No prior knowledge of poetry or expressive writing is required; you simply need to be willing to share, reflect and experiment with words in a supportive environment.

Learn how to introduce therapeutic writing into your work, to help people improve their health and wellbeing.
What will we cover?

This course offers insights into poetry therapy and therapeutic writing at an introductory level. The course will explore the use of poems and expressive writing as a tool for self-discovery, creativity and personal development.
Using our own experiences, we will reflect upon this process, and be introduced to some basic knowledge of poetry therapy.
Who is the course for?

This course will be of interest to writers of all kinds, medical and healthcare professionals, counsellors, therapists, social workers, librarians, academics, teachers, and service providers in a variety of health and therapeutic environments.

FEES:
Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00

A series of monthly workshops that can help you explore feelings, and build your resilience as you connect with others in these challenging times.
The title theme for the workshops was inspired by a poem written by Deborah Cooper.

We will use carefully selected poems as a springboard for writing, reflection and conversations.

The workshops are for anyone who wants additional resources, in these unsettling times. It is for those who enjoy creativity, journalling, writing for personal or professional development.
No prior knowledge of poetry or expressive writing is required; you simply need to be willing to share, reflect and experiment with words in a supportive environment.

Most people think of the tarot as just a tool for divination, but this ancient symbols system is much more than that; it’s a complete pictorial exploration of what it is to be human.
Stories are about people – their hopes and dreams, their problems and challenges, their relationships with themselves, other people and their environments. In these workshops, we’ll be using the tarot cards as a starting point for developing characters and discovering their stories.

A course of 6 workshops, total cost £96. 

A series of monthly workshops that can help you explore feelings, and build your resilience as you connect with others in these challenging times.
The title theme for the workshops was inspired by a poem written by Deborah Cooper.
We will use carefully selected poems as a springboard for writing, reflection and conversations.

The workshops are for anyone who wants additional resources, in these unsettling times. It is for those who enjoy creativity, journalling, writing for personal or professional development.

No prior knowledge of poetry or expressive writing is required; you simply need to be willing to share, reflect and experiment with words in a supportive environment.