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 […]
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AGM 2022 & Postcards Launch

The next Lapidus Scotland Annual General Meeting will take place online, on Thursday 16 June 2022 at 5pm. From 6.30pm, again online, we launch our new postcards, and present a reading by Valerie Gillies. You can book for either or both events at Eventbrite. Book a place for the AGM. Book a place for […]
Crossing Thresholds: online facilitator training
Schedule This Lapidus Scotland online programme for facilitators of reading, writing and storytelling for wellbeing consists of 12 hours of training, taking place as follows: Saturday 24th April 2021 from 2 to 6pm Wednesday 5th May from 2:30 to 4:30pm Wednesday 19th May from 2:30 to 4:30pm Saturday 5th June from 2 to 6pm Priority […]
Giving Sorrow Words: the podcast
This podcast was made following the Giving Sorrow Words sessions led by Larry Butler and Valerie Gillies in autumn 2020. With thanks to Rob McGuire for producing. […]
Crossing Thresholds residential weekend, March 2021

Crossing Thresholds is a weekend residential workshop for facilitators and organisers of reading, writing and storytelling for wellbeing. It will take place from 19-21 March 2021 (Friday from 5pm till Sunday 5pm) at Whatton Lodge, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Sessions will be led by Larry Butler, Valerie Gillies and Penny Stone. Further details, including course […]
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 […]