Lapidus Scotland and the Scottish Poetry Library have been supported by the Scottish Library and Information Council to bring together evidence from research and key stakeholders to define the way forward for Creative Words for Wellbeing (CWW) services in Scotland. A summary of their work highlights how the key findings and recommendations from that work […]
AGM & Webinar, 25 June 2020
Lapidus Scotland warmly invites you to their online Annual General Meeting event, followed by a webinar with Ann Wales and Kim Stafford. Both events take place on Thursday 25 June 2020. Book your place for the AGM here. Book your place for the WEBINAR here. The AGM (5.30–6.30pm) will formally present a report on work […]
Annual Report 2018–19
Please follow the link below: Lapidus Scotland 2018-2019 Annual Report […]
New Toolkit Resources
Over the past couple of months, we’ve added a number of resources to our tools page. We set up this page to help facilitators with group work. Now groups can’t meet face-to-face, there are lots of ideas that you can use if you’re meeting online, as well as for writing on your own. The recent […]
Audio From: Great Grief October 12th
On October 12th Lapidus Scotland held two events at the CCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow – with Ted Bowman. Audio from the events: Audio part 1: Audio part 2: 12th October 2019 – 10am to 4pm. A Workshop on Facilitating Groups for people who have led enough groups to know that […]
Phantoms of the Outside and In
A Half Nijuin Renga in an autumnal August at An Inn for the Phantoms of the Outside and In Pull back the curtain see the phantoms dine. Breaded sole, anyone? Marvel at the orange, yellow and faded browns their falling colours rhyme crunching underfoot playing the moon briefly hanging can we see the man […]
Day of Access
Day of Access is a collaborative project considering place-awareness, access to nature, healing, illness and wounded nature. Conceived by Alec Finlay, it has been developed with Lapidus, the Travelling Gallery and a wide range of other partners from the fields of environment, the arts and wellbeing*. It takes place over a two-year period, July 2019–July […]
Launch of Words Work Well for All Anthology
Lapidus Scotland has launched its latest anthology which brings together a rich collection of writing and art from the project ‘Words Work Well for All’ which ran from September 2017 to March 2019. Writing, storytelling and art activities for wellbeing for people living with, or affected by, long-term health conditions took place in a range […]
New Words Work Well for All tools for facilitators
Lapidus Scotland has commissioned seven new tools for facilitators to share the learning from the Words Work Well for All project (2018-2019) which was funded by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership via the Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund. Find out about the challenges and opportunities of delivering words for wellbeing in a […]
Lapidus International Conference Newcastle
Earlier this year, committee members, Mairi Murphy and Catherine Eunson attended the Lapidus conference in Newcastle on ‘The Writing Experience’. […]