Write, Grow, and Reflect
Let This Poem Be A Hand upon Your Shoulder – Online Workshops
If you’ve ever written your own poetry, kept a journal or written creatively, you already know how writing can open you up to reflection and personal exploration. This series of monthly workshops is inspired by that idea.
You may vividly remember the Covid pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. Like me, you may recall it as a time of uncertainty, isolation and fear. We were alone. Some of us were scared to meet with our family or our friends.
I wanted to find a way to help people connect. To talk about those feelings of anxiety, isolation and fear and find ways to cope. Which is how my workshops began.
Let This Poem be a Hand Upon Your Shoulder is now a monthly workshop, attended by people from all over the world. It's become a community of people who share, write and explore.
We use selected poems as our starting point for writing, reflection and conversation. In that way we explore feelings, build our resilience and connect with other participants.
Contact me if you would like to have a chat.
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is for you if you would like additional personal resources. Which I feel we all do, in these challenging times. It’s for you if you enjoy creativity, journalling and writing for personal or professional development.
Even if you haven’t put pen to paper before, this workshop is still for you. All you need to do is be open to sharing. Open to reflecting on, and experimenting with, words, in our supportive environment. And you don't need to worry about spelling grammar or style.
And, if you’re wondering about the title of the workshop, it was inspired by a poem written by Deborah Cooper.
Fees and Booking
- £25 plus booking fee
- Bookings via Eventbrite click on the dates below
- 11am - 12.30pm
Dates
City Lit College Courses – In Person
Working with Therapeutic Writing – 1 Day Course
- Date: Sun 1 Mar 2026, 10am - 5pm
- Location: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre, London
Are you ready to explore poetry and expressive writing? Are you open to using writing as a tool for self-discovery, creativity and personal development? Then this one day course is exactly right for you.
For this course, you don’t need to have any previous experience of writing poetry or expressive writing.
After the course, if you want to go further, to continue building your confidence and facilitate groups, you can progress to the advanced level course: Working with Therapeutic Writing – Advanced.
Working with Therapeutic Writing – Advanced 1-Day Course
- Date: Sun 10 May 2026, 10am - 5pm
- Location: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre, London
Building on the teachings of the initial course, this one day experiential course deepens your understanding of therapeutic writing and shows you how to integrate it into your personal practice or professional work.
The aim of the course is to support you in beginning to create a framework to facilitate courses and workshops yourself.
Podcast – Poetry Can Open Doors
You can listen to my interview with Maxine Bell from the Association for Coaching at the link below. You’ll hear how poetry can open doors and allow you to be the best version of yourself.
Get in Touch
Please get in touch here if you have any questions. Or you want to find out more about how my writing for wellbeing workshops and courses can help you.