Our Mission is to Inspire the Lapidus Community in the following ways:
Writing For Wellbeing: Exploring various themes and writing forms to promote wellbeing. We welcome member submissions to illustrate each theme.
Practitioner Showcase: Highlighting practitioners’ work across diverse fields and communities.
Creative Prompts: Receiving inspiration for personal writing, facilitation, or therapeutic work through our creative prompts.
Field Challenges: Discussing the challenges in our field and strategies to make this work sustainable.
Community Spotlight: Learning about regional groups and their impactful community work, with tips on establishing and growing local groups.
Psychotherapeutic Insights: Discovering how key psychotherapeutic and arts-based therapies can enhance facilitation work and inspire creativity, research, and field advancements.
Research Highlights: Bringing the latest research developments from LIRIC (our peer-reviewed sister publication) to showcase their relevance to your practice.
Promoting Diversity: Supporting diverse voices, promoting inclusion, and showcasing best practices to inspire our community.
Expert Support: Guidance from field leaders, led by Dr. Jeannie Wright, in our ASK column.
Member Contributions: We invite you to share your stories and experiences in writing for wellbeing, through open submissions, articles, and our Letters & Readers Shorts page.
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Lapidus Magazine
Lapidus Magazine invites you to contribute to our upcoming issue, with a focus on Music and Nature.
Do you have a story to tell, insights to share, or techniques to explore?
We are thrilled to announce that Issue 4 of our magazine is here, brimming with inspiring, empowering, and supportive content. This edition celebrates the diverse voices within our community and the broader creative writing for wellbeing field.
Inside you’ll find contributions covering self-disclosure, Australian Story Fragments, social prescribing, decolonisation, ekphrasis and much more!
With thanks to the contributors: Annie Barrett, Alison Cable, Miriam Dawson-Reilly, Roz Doe, Emma Drew, Poppy Drew, Sarah Featherstone, Victoria Field, Carolyn Grisold, Sabrin Hasbun, Poonam Madar, Leigh Manley, Sophie Poll-Hulshoff, Steve Richards, Denise Saul, Jonathan Totman, and Val Watson. And thank you to editors Alison Cable and Kate Poll.
We hope this issue will inspire you and encourage you to contribute to our upcoming Issue Five. Submissions are open until 15th November 2024. Find out more and submit your work.
Issue Three of the Lapidus Magazine is now here!
Find below the long-awaited third issue of the Lapidus Magazine – by the writing for wellbeing community for the writing for wellbeing community.
This issue has been curated by co-editors Barbara Bloomfield in Bristol, UK and Catrice Greer in the USA, with sub-editing by Helen iles. Design and formatting by Richard Axtell.
Thank you to all our contributors for this issue: Toni Hurford, Dr Phil Isherwood, Mary Lunnen, Lina Mookerjee, Amanda Pitt, Monica Suswin, Claire Williamson and Dr Jeannie Wright.
Read all of this in the online flipbook below (best read in full-screen mode):
Issue Two of the Lapidus Magazine is now here!
We are happy to announce the publication of the second issue of our Lapidus Magazine – by the writing for wellbeing community for the writing for wellbeing community.
This issue has been curated by co-editors Barbara Bloomfield in Bristol, UK and Catrice Greer in the USA, with sub-editing by Roger Livingston.
Thank you to all our contributors for this issue: Lina Mookerjee, Melinda Schwakhofer, Eva Roshan, Susanna Suchak, Stephanie Dale and Mary Lunnen.
Read all of this in the online flipbook below (best read in full-screen mode):
Presenting – the first issue of our brand new Lapidus Magazine!
This re-vamped version of the old Lapidus journal is a cornucopia of voices from our community, beautifully put together by editor, Helen Foster, aided by Richard Axtell and Kerry Coburn. The new magazine collects lively news and views about practice issues, personalities, reflective space, therapeutic arts and writing and developing your writing for wellbeing practice.
Alongside full colour photos, you can enjoy work by the following contributors:
Gillian Gilman Culff, Kate Pawsey, Toni Hurford, Patricia Peacock, Hilary Wilce, Eva Melissa Roshan, Chiara Santin, Poonam Madar, Kerry Coburn, Jan Kaneen, Dr Elizabeth Sarkany and Barbara Bloomfield. The lead article is Gillian Culff’s moving exploration of the time she spent mentoring Afghan women writers.
Read all of this in the online flipbook below (best read in full screen mode):
