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INTRODUCTION TO WRITING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
November 22-27 Victoria Field
and Graham Hartill
Guest: David Hart

Residential: £525 (single); £450 (shared)

This course is intended as an introduction to the theory and practice of using the literary arts as an integral part of healthcare.  Participants will experience the different ways writing can be used with patients, clients and in educational or community settings.  This course will be of interest to writers and poets, medical and healthcare professionals, counsellors, therapists, social workers, librarians, academics, teachers, service users and service providers in a variety of therapeutic environments – and anyone with an interest in any of these fields.

For anyone using literature therapeutically or working towards accreditation, certificates of attendance for CPD purposes can be provided.


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VICTORIA FIELD works as writer and a poetry therapist in a variety of health, education and community settings. She is a former Director of Survivors Poetry and had two periods chairing Lapidus, the UK’s organisation for reading and writing for health and well-being. She has co-edited two books on therapeutic writing, Writing Works and Prompted to Write and published two collections of poetry: the second Many Waters was based on a residency at Truro Cathedral. She is an Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall who have produced two of her plays.

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GRAHAM HARTILL poet, workshop facilitator, lecturer. He studied at the Universities of Wales and Massachusetts, and has since given countless workshops and classes in the UK, USA and China. Co–founder of LAPIDUS, the UK–wide association for the promotion of creative writing in therapeutic context. A Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellow 1990-92 and an Arts Council of Wales Writer’s Bursary recipient 1993, 1999 and 2006, Graham has worked in settings as varied as hospitals, prisons and mental health centres.  His selected poems, Cennau’s Bell was published in 2005 and his latest book A Winged Head by Parthian Books in 2006.

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