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| What this book offers and why | |
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| Running groups | |
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| Writing therapeutically and writing in therapy | |
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| Warming up and working together | |
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| Where are you today? | |
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| Hobnobs | |
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| The magician's assistant | |
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| Acrostics | |
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| AlphaPoems | |
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| Group poem : the making of a group | |
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| Telling tales : script conference and storytelling exercise | |
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| Writing about place | |
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| I know my place | |
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| A workshop with the theme of the sea | |
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| Riverlines | |
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| Inspiration and serenity : a workshop in the outdoors | |
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| A corridor with many doors | |
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| Image explorations | |
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| Writing from objects | |
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| Singing baked bean tins and other talismanic objects | |
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| Two creative writing activities : using plasticine and personal objects | |
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| Empty box | |
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| Roman story; feather and stone | |
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| Writing self and place | |
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| Feeling, smelling, hearing, tasting perhaps, but not seeing | |
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| Pictures, coloured paper and pens, buttons and skulls | |
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| Writing from published poems | |
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| The dot of the I | |
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| Ways of looking, ways of seeing | |
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| In the guest house of the heart | |
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| How the 'hang-out poets' came to be | |
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| A poem as a beginning | |
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| The great zoo | |
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| On 'educating the imagination' | |
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| Edges, risks and connections : reflections on a workshop led by John Fox | |
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| Writing in form | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Pantoums | |
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| Why sonnets? | |
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| Ghazal : a poem of love and loss | |
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| Genre | |
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| What people need to write | |
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| Series of three | |
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| 'This is the story of my birth ...' | |
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| Voices from the streets : the Brighton big issue writing group | |
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| Configurations of self | |
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| Lindy's story | |
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| One-to-one creative writing session : writing emerging from personal spoken experience | |
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| Different masks | |
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| I am true, I am false, I am impossible | |
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| Character creation from self and opposite | |
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| Head and heart | |
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| Writing the shadow : an exercise for exorcising the demons within | |
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| Two colour vignettes | |
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| Contours of the self : dialogues with the multifaceted 'I' voices | |
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| Meet your writer exercise | |
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| Critic tango : a workshop on the inner critic | |
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| Who am I? | |
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| Structured diaries for depressed women's self-help groups | |
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| Bursting free : writing and ME | |
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| Motivating for success | |
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| Two vignettes | |
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| Creating your mission statement for life and work | |
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| Personal heraldic coat of arms | |
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| Life's journey | |
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| First thing | |
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| Who wrote this? | |
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| Memory books | |
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| One-to-one creative writing therapy sessions | |
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| The journey of life : a workshop with teenage cancer patients | |
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| Loss and change | |
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| Mending the lives of children : the Humfylumph | |
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| Writing in spite of physical barriers | |
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| Exploring childhood : Lacan and Kristeva | |
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| Dear Ray ... Love Jean | |
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| Writing as evolution | |
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| Conclusion : writing works | |
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