Writing for Wellbeing

Finding time for yourself can be hard - but crucial - when the demands of family life take up every moment. This event will provide a safe space to explore your journey and connect with your feelings.

This session for parents will empower you to tap into the healing power of writing. In this relaxed, playful session, with gentle guidance from poet Kate Wakeling and educational psychologist Dr Abigail Fisher, you can come and explore writing activities to nurture your creativity and your soul.

Kate's workshops are particularly known for being playful and nurturing, and she is experienced at helping people explore and develop their own creative voice through writing and poetry. Abigail uses imagery and guided exercises to help parents find space for themselves in amongst family life.

Hosted by Abigail Fisher, educational psychologist and Kate Wakeling, poet and author (http://www.katewakeling.co.uk).

Illustration credit: Elena Braslina

Who are we?

Kate Wakeling is a poet and workshop facilitator who writes for both adults and children.

Kate regularly facilitates creative writing workshops for children and adults with a wide range of organisations, including the National Literacy Trust, the Poetry Society, the Sutton Women’s Network and Poetry By Heart. Her workshops are playful and nurturing, and she loves supporting individuals of any age or background to find and explore develop their own creative voice through poetry. (Photo credit: Tom Weller)

Abigail Fisher is an educational psychologist and qualified teacher. She has a particular interest in supporting parents to look after themselves so they can better care for their families.

Feedback from our last webinar

That was an amazing session. I feel like I've had my cup properly filled up - a first in a very long time. Our family has been in crisis for a long time now and I feel like I have completely lost myself to it. Having the well defined container of the workshop was just the support and guidance I needed. I could do with this medicine on a regular basis!

I'm not sure what I expected, but I didn't expect so much impact in such a short period of time. It was genuinely amazing to have space and useful prompts to reflect on my current emotional life and different aspects of my parenting and personal journey. I really think everyone should try the workshop... as someone who has done a fair bit of 'talk therapy', it was refreshing to have a new approach to my feelings and experiences.