Hello, everyone!
This week's workshops - Weds 18th @1pm and Thursday 19th @ 7pm - take 'A Sense of Place' as their theme. Participants are preparing a short piece (poetry, prose, drama) on places that mean something to them. The idea is to evoke the place so vividly that we, the audience, feel we know it and that we know why it means so much to you. A by-product is the craftsman's pleasure in honing and polishing - a different experience from the free-writing we've done so far.
Join us!
Lizzie
Showing posts with label creativity workshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creativity workshops. Show all posts
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Out of the Box Creative Writing Workshops - Future Dates
Over the weekend, I have added a blog entry regarding guidelines on Constructive Criticism which we developed over the past few days at my Out of the Box Creative Writing Coaching Workshops and hope you'll have time to read it. If you have comments and additions, you can leave them at http://lizziegates.blogspot.com And for those who expressed an interest in journalling, I have some articles on the topic published at www.ezinearticles.com and am also in the process of pulling together a report on the theme.
Future meeting dates we've fixed so far are:
Weds 7th October 1 - 3pm
Thurs 8th October 7 - 9pm
Weds 21st October 1- 3pm
Thurs 22nd October 7 - 9pm
Weds 4th November 1 - 3pm
Thurs 5th November 7 - 9pm
Weds 18th November 1 - 3pm
Thurs 19th November 7 - 9pm
There may also be a Christmas meeting for those interested to be discussed at 18th/19th November meetings
For those of you who are still unsure whether you want to join the group or not, why not come along to one of these sessions and see whether it would be helpful to you. I am also planning some one-session themed workshops in the New Year, such as Web Writing or handling rejection etc. If you are interested in this sort of session - on these or any other writing themes - perhaps you'd let me know and we can assess the level of interest in the topic.
We will grow - probably mostly through word of mouth. So if anyone has a friend or meets someone who says 'Oh, I've always wanted to write', please spread the word about these workshops. If this week's examples are anything to go by, the more the merrier, I say!
Future meeting dates we've fixed so far are:
Weds 7th October 1 - 3pm
Thurs 8th October 7 - 9pm
Weds 21st October 1- 3pm
Thurs 22nd October 7 - 9pm
Weds 4th November 1 - 3pm
Thurs 5th November 7 - 9pm
Weds 18th November 1 - 3pm
Thurs 19th November 7 - 9pm
There may also be a Christmas meeting for those interested to be discussed at 18th/19th November meetings
For those of you who are still unsure whether you want to join the group or not, why not come along to one of these sessions and see whether it would be helpful to you. I am also planning some one-session themed workshops in the New Year, such as Web Writing or handling rejection etc. If you are interested in this sort of session - on these or any other writing themes - perhaps you'd let me know and we can assess the level of interest in the topic.
We will grow - probably mostly through word of mouth. So if anyone has a friend or meets someone who says 'Oh, I've always wanted to write', please spread the word about these workshops. If this week's examples are anything to go by, the more the merrier, I say!
Saturday, 13 December 2008
The Role of the Arts in Medical Education
This autumn I’ve been working assiduously on a rather fine development among Lonely Furrow Company activities. Many, many people have expressed keen interest in these co-designed creativity workshops, my so-called Out of the Box Workshops. Targetting specific groups, each Out of the Box Workshop has a clearly-stated and totally-focussed aim.
At the moment, I am particularly excited by the prospect of running these with Tomorrow's Doctors! The medical profession, itself, is greatly concerned about aligning itself with the needs, hopes and expectations of its patients. And, as you read this, the General Medical Council is consulting on the kind of doctors medical education should aim to produce. (To take part in the consultation visit www.gmc-uk.org/tomorrowsdoctors.) The Medical Schools’ Council have also just published their 2008 Conference consensus statement on the role of the 21st Century Doctor (To see the statement, click on http://www.medschools.ac.uk/news.htm ).This impulse appears more Hippocratic than ‘free-market’ and is – in my view as a patient (sometimes) and lay observer (always) – very welcome indeed!
But, as a coach and creative workshop facilitator, you may ask, why am I getting involved?
Well, I've been looking at the work of Robin Downie (University of Glasgow Professor of Moral Philosophy) and Dr Jane Macnaughton (University of Durham Centre for Arts & Humanities in Health and Medicine).
And Robin Downie,in his chapter in Creative Writing in Health & Social Care 2004, indicates that creative writing and reading can help medical practitioners (and ultimately their patients) by developing:
1.Transferable skills such as:
a) an ability to write clear English
b) sensitivity to the nuances, ambiguities etc to be found in normal conversation
c) an ability to see connections between apparently disparate situations
2. Self awareness which has the added benefit of safe-guarding against emotional burn-out.
As it happens, co-incidentally, Lonely Furrow Company creativity programmes also have these outcomes as central to their aims. It's a small world, isn't it?
At the moment, I am particularly excited by the prospect of running these with Tomorrow's Doctors! The medical profession, itself, is greatly concerned about aligning itself with the needs, hopes and expectations of its patients. And, as you read this, the General Medical Council is consulting on the kind of doctors medical education should aim to produce. (To take part in the consultation visit www.gmc-uk.org/tomorrowsdoctors.) The Medical Schools’ Council have also just published their 2008 Conference consensus statement on the role of the 21st Century Doctor (To see the statement, click on http://www.medschools.ac.uk/news.htm ).This impulse appears more Hippocratic than ‘free-market’ and is – in my view as a patient (sometimes) and lay observer (always) – very welcome indeed!
But, as a coach and creative workshop facilitator, you may ask, why am I getting involved?
Well, I've been looking at the work of Robin Downie (University of Glasgow Professor of Moral Philosophy) and Dr Jane Macnaughton (University of Durham Centre for Arts & Humanities in Health and Medicine).
And Robin Downie,in his chapter in Creative Writing in Health & Social Care 2004, indicates that creative writing and reading can help medical practitioners (and ultimately their patients) by developing:
1.Transferable skills such as:
a) an ability to write clear English
b) sensitivity to the nuances, ambiguities etc to be found in normal conversation
c) an ability to see connections between apparently disparate situations
2. Self awareness which has the added benefit of safe-guarding against emotional burn-out.
As it happens, co-incidentally, Lonely Furrow Company creativity programmes also have these outcomes as central to their aims. It's a small world, isn't it?
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