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WHAT CAN FICTION WRITING TEACH THERAPISTS?

Wed 15 Mar

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Moments of writing together in therapy can develop trust, clarity, co-operation and emotional engagement. Author, reader and writer are in the room together. I have learnt how to do this by using skills from novel writing. Find out more and try out a mix of creative and therapeutic writing.

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WHAT CAN FICTION WRITING TEACH THERAPISTS?
WHAT CAN FICTION WRITING TEACH THERAPISTS?

Time of Event

15 Mar 2023, 19:30 – 21:30

Webinar

About the Event

Writing can be a valuable, empowering and co-creative part of therapy.  It can scaffold and shape the therapy for both therapist and client at the beginning, middle and end.  A few minutes of writing to a specific memory, feeling, or moment (or part of the map) which is followed by reading it out loud can bring new, validating and compassionate points of view and voices.  Writing between sessions can help sustain a therapeutic formulation and focus.   

There will be an introduction to the utility of the ideas from fiction writing of plot or structure, points of view, world building, authenticity and a reliable narrator and inhabiting a story and a character  

This introductory evening webinar will involve participants trying out for themselves a series of short micro-writing exercises lasting five minutes each and focused and carefully addressed to: 

  • a place and a moment in time in my career 

  • one…

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