- Event Date: 16/12/2025
Make the Most of Your Membership 1:1 Call
Event Details
- 2pm
- Online via Zoom
- From £0
Event Description
Whether you’re new to Lapidus or have been a part of our community for years, we want to help you make the most of your membership.
Members can now book a bespoke, 1:1 Zoom call with our Membership Coordinator, to discuss how we can best support you through our events, networking and other membership offers.
What can you expect from a 1:1 membership call?
Calls last 20-30 minutes and are tailored to your needs. We can cover:
- The best way to find your feet in our friendly, global community
- A personal tour of our member benefits and how you can access them
- Suggested ways for you to share your experience and offerings via our platforms
- Discussing your areas of interest and how we can support your practice
- A fresh pair of eyes to identify new opportunities for you within our community
- Any other questions you may have or ways we can welcome and include you at Lapidus International
Where helpful, Flo will send a follow-up email with relevant links and opportunities for you to peruse in your own time.
How to book
Calls are available generally on Tuesday afternoons, 2-5pm UK time, and Friday mornings, 9am-12 noon UK time.
To book, please send an initial enquiry to membership@lapidus.org.uk. Flo will then reply to arrange a date and time.
Please note that 1:1 calls are a benefit that we offer to Lapidus International members. You must be a member to book a 1:1 call, and you can join our community from as little as £3.50 per month via our Membership Hub.
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- Event Date: 16/12/2025
Other events you may like
Start the weekend off right with a relaxing evening of Indian classical music and reflective writing.
Bring a mat, blanket, pen and paper. There will also be chairs for those who prefer to sit.
There is a lift and wheelchair-accessible toilets downstairs.
There is wheelchair access through the main entrance of the church.
The main entrace is on Alma Vale Road.
Please contact us if you have accessibility needs and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
- Lapidus Member Event Only
Compassion Journalling: Writing as a Practice of Self-Compassion and Resilience
Presenter: Kate Poll
Saturday 4th October 4:00pm.
Developed during an MSc exploring intrapersonal communication and the conditions that support emotional resilience, Compassion Journalling is a reflective writing practice that evolved in response to lived experience of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and a guiding question: if relational dynamics are central to wellbeing, what happens when we apply those insights to our relationship with self? After all, it’s the one we carry for life.
The practice emerged from research reimagining Gottman’s Four Horsemen metaphor through an intrapersonal lens — exploring how patterns of self-talk, nervous system response, and self-defeating storying can lead to internal disconnection. A reference to writing as reflective self-therapy in a paper co-written by Professor Paul Gilbert and Dr Jeannie Wright became unexpectedly foundational, helping shape a creative, sustaining tool that has since evolved into a compassion-focused, neuroinclusive journalling approach.
Now further grounded in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Kristin Neff’s self-compassion research, alongside Internal Family Systems, narrative therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, and somatic awareness, Compassion Journalling supports emotional resilience and self-attunement. This session blends theory, guided writing, and shared reflection to offer a flexible, compassionate practice — one that supports emotional resilience, deepens self-understanding, and helps us stay present to ourselves and our work.
About the Presenter
Kate Poll is a writer, facilitator, and co-editor of the Lapidus Magazine and former Lapidus Board member, with a particular interest in reflective writing for wellbeing and inclusive creative practice. She draws on lived experience of neurodivergence, creative work, and carer experience, alongside involvement in stroke recovery projects, carers’ wellbeing groups, and independent living charities. Kate’s approach is shaped by community insights, health and care settings, and nonprofit work, with a focus on compassionate, relational ways of supporting self-expression and connection. Her work encourages honest reflection, practical tools, and small, sustainable adjustments that help creative and caring work stay both meaningful and doable.
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83983584960
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.
This is a ten week online course, starting on Weds 8th October, 7 – 9.15pm looking at how the process of Focusing can be used alongside writing for wellbeing, runs through till 10th December. Those using poetry or journaling with groups and want to be inspired to use poems in new ways, and gain further insights and perspectives through the process of Focusing, a gentle and spacious process.
This will be a beautiful exploration of direct experience of how poetry and writing can be deepened through the process of Focusing, which brings more compassion and understanding into our lives.
Discounts are available, if financial circumstances are difficult, so please inquire.