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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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