Embodied Creative Writing Workshop

OVERVIEW:

This 3-hour workshop offers you an exciting opportunity to explore your creativity and imagination through warm-up games, mindfulness-based practices, and short spontaneous bursts of writing (flash fiction and non-fiction), which you will be invited to share with the group (optional).

Active listening to each reading in turn will be followed by an embodied group response using our physicality to reflect what touched us, as well as a brief feedback discussion. This is to help each person to feel seen, supported and inspired.

The overall workshop focus is on unleashing our creativity, using play and inquiry to get into flow state through creativity, experimentation and collaboration.

There will be a variety of prompts to stimulate our writing ‘bursts’ through short stories, poems and discussions.

Any adults (18+) who want to explore their creative side are welcome, whatever your background of experience.

YOUR FACILITATORS:

Kerry is a Totnes-based mindfulness teacher and nature-connection guide who weaves creativity, play, and deep listening into her work. A lifelong theatre performer drawn to Improv and Physical Theatre, she’s also training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to foster empathy, connection, and repair.

Julie lives in Teignmouth and has been an English teacher/tutor over many years, mostly in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tunisia and the UK. She has run creative writing retreats in Zimbabwe, Cambridge and now runs regular creative writing courses in Teignmouth, and has delivered many courses at the Pavilions.

LOCATION & PARKING:

The workshop will take place in the Summer House at the beautiful Cliffden Hotel in Teignmouth. There is free parking available at the hotel, but if you are able to get public transport or walk/cycle, that would be ideal!