Write Yourself - Writing for Wellbeing Workshop (2nd date)

In these sessions we will read poems together and, if you feel to, make responses, not on literary value, but on how they make you feel. The poems we read are there for us to explore how we feel about their contents, then through writing prompts we will dive a little deeper. This workshop is not about honing writing craft, instead it is about getting to know ourselves through creative responses.

The session is gently held and you will not be expected to share anything private or go anywhere you would rather not, yet as the Irish poet David Whyte said...

"Poetry is the act of overhearing yourself saying something you didn't know you knew."

Responding to creative stimuli and engaging in free writing helps to gently reveal ourselves to ourselves, peeling back layers of understanding.

There is never any pressure to share, but you might like to hear your…