Healing words is a series of workshops that I am facilitating looking at the therapeutic worth of creative writing. It is for health professionals who want to bring creative writing into their practice and for writers wanting to work in therapeutic environments.

The next workshops are:
Saturday, 23^rd November 2013, Healing Words (5): Working with resistances. What stops us from writing and how resistances can be tools for insight and understanding.
Saturday, 18^th January 2014, Healing Words (6): Therapeutic creative writing in different contexts, theory and practice.
Saturday, 29^th March, 2014, Healing Words (1): Finding the story, using fairy tales to explore our own and other’s stories.
Saturday, 31^st May 2014, Healing Words (2): Embodied writing, exploring how creative writing can encourage working more holistically.
Saturday, 19^th July 2014, Healing Words (3): The wonder of metaphor in therapeutic creative writing.
Saturday, 20^st September 2014, Healing Words (4): Poetry and therapeutic creative writing.
Saturday, 22nd November 2014, Healing Words (5): Working with resistances. What stops us from writing and how resistances can be tools for insight and understanding.
Saturday, 7^th February 2015, Healing Words (6): Therapeutic creative writing in different contexts, theory and practice.

All workshops are held in Scarborough and receive Continuing Professional Development hours from Scarborough Counselling & Psychotherapy Training Institute. You can come on individual workshops or sign up for the series. For more information contact: mail@scpti.co.uk.