Twelve easy ways to use writing therapeutically ( sorry fully booked see now May 8th for repeat)
Wed, 13 Mar
|Zoom webinar 9.30am - 1.00pm
Writing is a key therapeutic resource and therapies such as CAT have led in finding innovative uses, side-by-side, in session and between sessions. This workshop offers twelve writing exercises to try out and enrich your therapeutic work. They help build reflective capacity and narrative freedom.
Time of Event
13 Mar 2024, 09:30 – 13:00 GMT
Zoom webinar 9.30am - 1.00pm
About the Event
This half-day workshop is for anyone whose work involves individual or group psychotherapy, counselling or reflective practice and would like to explore the use of writing. The workshop is led by Steve Potter who is a Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor and has been using a variety of creative and therapeutic ways of writing for many years. Â All you need for the workshop is pen and paper and we will work through the following series of writing exercises with reference to our therapeutic work and our own personal and professional resources. Â
Twelve exercises in writing therapeutically:Â
1. Â Stopping to write draft notes together: Â helps develop a shared reflective capacity and shape the therapy mutually
2. Â Dear therapy letter mid session: helps take stock and connect with different views about progress in therapyÂ
3. Â Writing out a pattern from a map: as a focus for reflective and relational awareness and homework
4. Â Writing to a part of the map: to open it up or connect with a moment in the conversation:Â
5. Â Â Letter to a bit of help: giving attention to the smallest acts of hope and progress towards a future narrativeÂ
6. Â Correspondence back and forth between contrasting feelings: to make links and find gaps.Â
7. Â Â Writing to find my voice: reading out and revising and seeking authorship and agency Â
8. Â Â Writing between reciprocal positions: Â between authoring and being authored is narrative freedom Â
9. Â Â Writing from the outside in and the inside out: helps develop perspective and empathyÂ
10. Writing dear homeland letter: to connect indirectly with a context and part of childhood
11. Â Writing a review letter as part of the ending of therapy: revisiting and reworking the idea of the goodbye letterÂ
12. Â Revisiting the idea of writing a Therapy (reformulation) Letter: as as an aid to shaping and holding a therapy Â
Tickets
Booking fee
The fee covers attendance for one person and pre reading and teaching materials.
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