- Event Date: 08/03/2026
Working with Therapeutic Writing Advanced
Event Details
- 10:00
- City Lit College: Wellbeing Centre 9 Kean St, London WC2B 4AY
- From £179
Event Description
According to Robert Frost ‘A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.’ Poetry therapy is the intentional use of poetry and literature to support healing, self-awareness, and emotional growth.
This experiential course deepens your understanding of therapeutic writing and equips you to integrate it into your personal practice or professional work. It builds on the teachings and learnings of the introductory course. Its overall aim is to support participants begin to create a framework to facilitate courses and workshops with various populations. Whether you’re a writer, therapist, educator, or healthcare provider, you’ll gain practical tools to help others improve their wellbeing through the written word.
About the Tutor
Charmaine Pollard qualified as a certified poetry therapist with the USA-based International Federation for Biblio-Poetry Therapy. She is also a BACP registered / accredited counsellor and life coach. She has a passion for facilitating therapeutic writing groups and workshops in schools, prisons, libraries, clinical settings and in the community.
She enjoys teaching at City Lit, as it is a diverse and vibrant place to learn. She especially enjoys introducing students to poetry therapy. Her courses are based on reading poetry discussing, and writing in response to promote health and wellbeing.
Charmaine Pollard is author of Writing for Resilience a workbook that harnesses the power of writing to help boost self-awareness and strengthen resilience. It is available to buy on Amazon.
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Each session will look at two poets, and time will be given to feel deeper into the poems with all our senses, and time to write your own response to the poem, and a chance to share it in a supportive community of writers. These writers of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual backgrounds fresh insights and portals into deeper perspectives on ourselves and our lives.
Led by Poet, Poetry Healing Practitioner, Focusing Teacher, Bethany Rivers (M.A.). She is mixed race and neurodivergent. She has two poetry chapbooks published with Indigo Dreams (Off the wall), and Fly on the Wall Press (the sea refuses no river). She is author of Fountain of Creativity: Ways to nourish your writing from Victorina Press, and has been teaching creative writing and writing for wellbeing for 20 years.
Photo is of Lorenzo Quinn’s sculpture Building Bridges.
Come and play with your creativity in this deeply relaxing and inspiring workshop series! This is a three-part series that will run over three Mondays in February (2, 9, 16), and you can buy tickets for one or all three (details below and in link).
We’ll use a guided relaxation practice called yoga nidra to access divergent thinking (the type of thinking that drives new ideas and possibilities). We’ll combine this with writing prompts to access new ideas in your writing (or other creative practice if you wish).
There will also be time to chat and share your writing (all optional of course).
Everyone welcome!
Date, time & location:
Three Mondays in February, 6–7pm (2/2, 9/2, 16/2)
Live online on Zoom
Individual sessions (£16 per session)
or book all three and save (£45)