The next Lapidus Scotland Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 6.45pm. From 7.45pm we present readings by Jim Carruth, Naomi Shihab Nye, and members of Lapidus Scotland writing groups. Both events take place in the Clubroom, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD. You are also welcome to join […]
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Sensuous Facilitation Residential Workshop
Sensuous Facilitation: A Residential Workshop for Experienced Facilitators Whatton Lodge, East Lothian Friday 21st to Monday 24th April 2023 with Ted Bowman, Valerie Gillies, Sukhema (aka Larry Butler), Penny Stone Cost £247 – £290 Early Bird discounts for applications received by 15 February To apply please complete and return this form Sensuous Facilitation appl-form Join […]
Living Our Dying: Glasgow workshops (early 2023)
8 weekly workshops for people living in the Glasgow area, partly based on the book Living Our Dying Thursdays 9, 16 & 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 March, 13.30-15.30, at the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens “I love this book – it will not only help you die a good death, it will […]
Slow Ink (Mindfulness and Writing)
Bev Schofield and Adrienne Hannah have been leading online mindfulness and writing sessions since the summer of 2020, offering practices to support people through the pandemic and its aftermath. Sessions have proved popular, and Bev and Adrienne are offering a series of a further six sessions in early 2023, on Saturdays from 10.00 to 12.00 […]
The Burn Flows into the Sea (2022)
The Burn Flows into the Sea was an online writing event for grieving and remembrance, led by artist and writer Jane Walker. It took place in early November, and was part of the To Absent Friends festival. Since 2020, we have all become more aware than ever of absent friends – those who have died, […]
Water Story celebrates 100 sessions
Ahoy from Cap’n Bev here to cheer our 100th session of Water Story as we move into our seventh year. Larry Butler (Sukhema) cast us off in 2016 and our exploration of story, as reflected in water, has happened mostly on the Forth & Clyde Canal (thanks to Navvies’ Barge) and the bonny loch (thanks […]
Walking & Writing i.m. Brian Whittingham
After Sukhema’s Walking Writing Talking events in and around the River Kelvin earlier this year, he leads one last event in an autumnal Kelvingrove Park on 15 October at 10.30am. In summer 2021 the poet Brian Whittingham led a series of Lapidus Scotland Walking and Writing events in Kelvingrove Park. We were saddened to hear […]
Ways into Writing the Climate
Ways into Writing the Climate is an online facilitator training course led by Linda France, taking place on Wednesdays 23 & 30 November and 7 December from 14.00 to 16.00. This short online course of three linked sessions will consider how to approach the subject of climate and ecological change within the context of […]
CommuniTEA Tour in Dumfries & Galloway
Based in Wigtown in south-west Scotland, Renita Boyle combines skills in storytelling, poetry, life writing and community arts to facilitate wellbeing events and workshops. Since 2019, Renita has upcycled 100 used teabags into miniature pieces of nature-themed art. Examples of these can be seen at her Instagram page. Along the way she has been writing […]
Mindfulness and Expressive Writing Retreat, November 2022
A 6 day retreat in the glorious setting of Myres Castle, combining meditation, mindful movement and expressive writing, from Monday 14 to Saturday 19 November. Stop and rest, and appreciate the goodness of life, despite it all. ‣ Honour your feelings in response to your own suffering and the suffering in our world. ‣ Connect […]