Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops And Activities (Writing for Therapy or Personal Development)

Writing Works:\rA Resource Handbook for Therapeutic\rWriting Workshops and Activities......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
FOREWORD\r......Page 9
SOMEONE SAYS\r......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\r......Page 12
What this Book Offers and Why\r......Page 13
Running Groups......Page 18
Writing Therapeutically and Writing in Therapy......Page 26
Part One:\rWriting from Without......Page 33
1.\rWarming Up and\rWorking Together......Page 35
Where are you Today?\r......Page 37
Hobnobs\r......Page 39
The Magician’s Assistant\r......Page 40
Acrostics......Page 45
AlphaPoems\r......Page 46
Group Poem: The Making of a Group\r......Page 51
Telling Tales: Script Conference and Storytelling Exercise......Page 53
2.\rWriting about Place......Page 56
I Know\rMy Place......Page 59
A Workshop with the Theme of the Sea\r......Page 62
Riverlines\r......Page 65
Inspiration and Serenity: A Workshop in the Outdoors\r......Page 67
A Corridor with Many Doors\r......Page 69
Image Explorations\r......Page 70
3.\rWriting from Objects......Page 74
Singing Baked Bean Tins and Other Talismanic Objects......Page 75
Two Creative Writing Activities: Using Plasticine\rand Personal Objects......Page 79
Empty Box......Page 82
Roman Story; Feather and Stone......Page 84
Writing Self and Place......Page 87
Feeling, Smelling, Hearing, Tasting Perhaps,\rBut Not Seeing......Page 91
Pictures, Coloured Paper and Pens, Buttons and Skulls......Page 95
4.\rWriting from Published Poems......Page 97
The Dot of the I......Page 99
Ways of Looking, Ways of Seeing......Page 102
In the Guest House of the Heart......Page 105
How the ‘Hang-Out Poets’ Came to Be......Page 108
A Poem as a Beginning......Page 110
The Great Zoo......Page 113
On ‘Educating the Imagination’......Page 116
Edges, Risks and Connections: Reflections on a Workshop Led by John Fox\r......Page 118
5.\rWriting in Form......Page 123
Haiku......Page 126
Pantoums......Page 128
Why Sonnets?......Page 131
Ghazal: A Poem of Love and Loss......Page 134
Genre......Page 138
Part Two:\rWriting from Within......Page 139
6.\rWhat People Need to Write......Page 141
Series of Three......Page 142
‘This is a Story of My Birth…’......Page 145
Voices from the Streets: The Brighton Big Issue\rWriting Group......Page 147
Configurations of Self......Page 150
Lindy’s Story......Page 152
One-to-One Creative Writing Session: Writing Emerging\rfrom Personal Spoken Experience......Page 155
7.\rDifferent Masks......Page 158
I am True, I am False, I am Impossible......Page 161
Character Creation from Self and Opposite......Page 162
Head and Heart......Page 164
Writing the Shadow: An Exercise for Exorcising\rthe Demons Within......Page 167
Two Colour Vignettes......Page 171
Contours of the Self: Dialogues with the Multifaceted\r‘I’ Voices......Page 172
Critic Tango: A Workshop on the Inner Critic......Page 176
8.\rWho am I?......Page 181
Structured Diaries for Depressed Women’s\rSelf-Help Groups......Page 182
Bursting Free: Writing and ME......Page 184
Motivating for Success......Page 188
Two Vignettes......Page 190
Creating Your Mission Statement for Life and Work......Page 192
Personal Heraldic Coat of Arms......Page 194
9.\rLife’s Journey......Page 198
First Thing......Page 199
Who Wrote This?......Page 201
Memory Books......Page 204
One-to-One Creative Writing Therapy Sessions......Page 206
The Journey of Life: A Workshop with Teenage\rCancer Patients......Page 208
10.\rLoss and Change......Page 212
Mending the Lives of Children: The Humfylumph......Page 214
Writing in Spite of Physical Barriers......Page 217
Exploring Childhood: Lacan and Kristeva......Page 219
Dear Ray…Love Jean......Page 224
Writing as Evolution......Page 226
11.\rConclusion: Writing Works......Page 230
APPENDIX 1. MAP OF THE BOOK\r......Page 236
APPENDIX 2. CLASSIC EXERCISES\r......Page 239
APPENDIX 3. USEFUL RESOURCES\r......Page 240
REFERENCES\r......Page 242
CONTRIBUTORS\r......Page 245
SUBJECT INDEX\r......Page 252
AUTHOR INDEX\r......Page 255