EVENTS

January 2023 kicked off with an appearance on Maidstone Radio in Kent as a guest on the Sunday Brunch Show presented by Cassie Beckley and Elaine Foster-Gandey. I read poems from my series of books, talking about why they are still meaningful to me years after writing and answering questions from listeners about approaches to the kind of personal writing that is my focus.

MEMBERSHIPS

Lapidus International: the Writing for Wellbeing Community

NAWE: the National Association for Writers in Education  

ISN: Interdependent Supervisors Network 

 

ZOOMING workshops & sessions

As with many of us lockdown brought zoom workshops into my working life. And feels very satisfying in a way I could never have imagined before we had to live with social restrictions. My focus is on offering supervision to practitioners who enjoy writing reflectively and imaginatively to bring more understanding to their working practice. These are small workshops online which in fact create a community of those who work with others in the helping professions or teaching. This enables people from all over the UK and beyond to make connections.

My practice of working with individuals in the following areas of interest carries on both online and face-to-face in Forest Row, East Sussex. All my work is underpinned with exploratory and imaginative writing and discussion. Helping others to find writing an important and evolving activity in their own lives is my motivation and passion.

  • personal exploration through creative and therapeutic writing

  • supervision for practitioners working with Writing for Wellbeing

  • supervision for therapists and counsellors

  • those writing chapters or books (non-fiction)

Use the contact form to find out more or arrange a phone / zoom chat if you’d like to consider working with me. My sessions are two hours long with a break because I find that period of time enables meaningful contact and writing time with sharing. Frequency of sessions vary from fortnightly to monthly or six weekly. I always start with an exploratory session so both of us can find out whether we want to take sessions further. Then periodic assessments to gauge how we continue or wind up our work together.

 

 other activities

Open Floor Dancing is a derivative of 5Rythms (Gabriel Roth) and I go to a class once a week in our village hall. This is a movement in meditation and complements my writing practice perfectly.

East Sussex is where I have lived for over 25 years, having moved from North London. I am the mother of a grown-up daughter and son-in-law, grandmother of two little boys.