- Event Date: 18/02/2026
Writing Our Health and Care Stories: Writing What’s Within
Event Details
- 14:00
- Online via Zoom
- From £25
Event Description
An introduction to embodied writing. Let’s discover the rich benefits of attuning to what we think and feel, and afford ourselves the space to listen. Express our individual stories, draw from our challenging feelings, and write without shame. It’s your turn to have your voice heard.
We will begin by looking inward, considering our individual experience, and what about it we might hope to express or share. We will consider our experiences of health and care as platforms for storytelling, asking ourselves, ‘what is the story we might wish to write?’ and ‘how might we tell these stories?’ If there are obstacles holding us back, we’ll briefly consider ‘what are they and how might we write about them, or in spite of them?’
Reading samples will provide us with impetus for new writing. We’ll consider works rooted in somatic storytelling, writing from a felt sense of our bodies and what our bodies might be telling us. We will also step back to reflect – ‘why write about health and illness at all?’ Learn the proven benefits to our own health and wellbeing when we write in an expressive or therapeutic way.
Course Outline
Session one of a series of three live zoom workshops with tutor of expressive and therapeutic writing, and coach, Andrew Kauffmann. Including a combination of reading, discussion and writing exercises. Later workshops on writing using metaphor in bringing our health stories to the page, and writing ethically and thoughtfully from challenging life material, will be taking place on March 11th and April 1st, also on Zoom, between 2pm and 3.30pm GMT.
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