- Event Date: 07/09/2024
Read Write Express: Happiness
Event Details
- 09:45
- Online via Zoom
- From £31
Event Description
Read Write Express offers workshops for adults who wish to explore writing as a means of improving wellbeing, gaining confidence and moving forward with life.
The workshops provide a nurturing and supportive space to experience different writing and other fun, releasing and relaxing exercises to help participants stimulate their creativity and encourage self-awareness. Writing experience is not essential, just a willingness to join in and give it a go.
Writing is optionally shared with the group and participants are encouraged to respond from their own experience of hearing it as opposed to offering a critique. This is the difference between writing for self-development and creative writing for literary development. Writing and voicing writing in this way can be therapeutic but these workshops are not group therapy and participants need to be aware of this when choosing what to write or share.
Through visualisation, reading and discussing written resource/s, writing and sharing, participants will connect with the theme of “happiness” in imagination and recollection. For this workshop you will need a notebook and pen.
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Sessions include breathwork, embodied visualisation, mindfulness and meditation; gentle reflective writing prompts; and closing mindful moments to set our creative intention for the week and/or our current creative projects.
Writing time can be used to follow the reflective writing prompts or to dive into your own writing projects with an enhanced feeling of focus and intention.
Please note that all microphones will be muted for the entire session for the mutual benefit of all participants.
The sessions are open to all, whatever the level writer you believe yourself to be. (Sharing our writing will not be part of the sessions.)
All you need is a private space where you will not be disturbed for the hour, a pen and paper – and a beginner’s mind.
Sessions are run on a pay-what-you-can basis to make them as accessible as possible. (Session minimum is currently set at £4 but please email Kate if this is unaffordable. For those who are able to afford more, please consider doing so as your money will help to support those who find it harder to pay. Thank you!)
Cancellation policy: non-refundable.
Forthcoming sessions (drop in):
Monday 9th September
Monday 16th September
Monday 23rd September
Monday 30th September
Monday 7th October
Monday 14th October
PLEASE NOTE BOOKING CLOSES AT 7PM UK ON THE DAY OF EACH SESSION – Zoom links may not be able to be sent out after that time of the evening of the session.
Join us for a gentle but inspiring Monday evening hour to help bring you a sense of connection with your authentic voice, your self, your body, your own stories, and your creative intention for the week ahead.
Sessions include breathwork, embodied visualisation, mindfulness and meditation; gentle reflective writing prompts; and closing mindful moments to set our creative intention for the week and/or our current creative projects.
Writing time can be used to follow the reflective writing prompts or to dive into your own writing projects with an enhanced feeling of focus and intention.
Please note that all microphones will be muted for the entire session for the mutual benefit of all participants.
The sessions are open to all, whatever the level writer you believe yourself to be. (Sharing our writing will not be part of the sessions.)
All you need is a private space where you will not be disturbed for the hour, a pen and paper – and a beginner’s mind.
Sessions are run on a pay-what-you-can basis to make them as accessible as possible. (Session minimum is currently set at £4 but please email Kate if this is unaffordable. For those who are able to afford more, please consider doing so as your money will help to support those who find it harder to pay. Thank you!)
Cancellation policy: non-refundable.
Forthcoming sessions (drop in):
Monday 9th September
Monday 16th September
Monday 23rd September
Monday 30th September
Monday 7th October
Monday 14th October
PLEASE NOTE BOOKING CLOSES AT 7PM UK ON THE DAY OF EACH SESSION – Zoom links may not be able to be sent out after that time of the evening of the session.