Writing Works

by Bolton, Gillie; Field, Victoria; Thompson, Kate; Morrison, Blake

• ISBN13: 9781843104681
• ISBN10: 1843104687
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-25
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub

Summary

Guide for therapists working with groups or individuals, offering advice and theory on using creative writing as a route to personal development. Topics include writing from without, writing about place, writing from objects, what people need to write, life's journey, loss and change, and more. For therapists. Softcover. DNLM: Writing.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
Blake Morrison	9	(2)
SOMEONE SAYS
David Hart	11	(1)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	12	(1)
Introduction	13	(20)
What this Book Offers and Why
Gillie Bolton	13	(5)
Running Groups
Victoria Field	18	(8)
Writing Therapeutically and Writing in Therapy
Kate Thompson	26	(7)
Part One: Writing from Without	33	(106)
1. Warming Up and Working Together
Edited by Kate Thompson	35	(21)
Where are you Today?
Victoria Field	37	(2)
Hobnobs
Angie Butler	39	(1)
The Magician's Assistant
Zeeba Ansari	40	(5)
Acrostics
Larry Butler	45	(1)
AlphaPoems
Kathleen Adams	46	(5)
Group Poem: The Making of a Group
Cheryl Moskowitz	51	(2)
Telling Tales: Script Conference and Storytelling Exercise
Kate D'lima	53	(3)
2. Writing about Place
Edited by Victoria Field	56	(18)
I Know My Place
Victoria Field	59	(3)
A Workshop with the Theme of the Sea
Judy Clinton	62	(3)
Riverlines
Linda Goodwin	65	(2)
Inspiration and Serenity: A Workshop in the Outdoors
Miriam Halahmy	67	(2)
A Corridor with Many Doors
Susan Kersley	69	(1)
Image Explorations
Myra Schneider	70	(4)
3. Writing from Objects
Edited by Gillie Bolton	74	(23)
Singing Baked Bean Tins and Other Talismanic Objects
Angela Stoner	75	(4)
Two Creative Writing Activities: Using Plasticine and Personal Objects
Fiona Hamilton	79	(3)
Empty Box
Glynis Charlton	82	(2)
Roman Story; Feather and Stone
Geraldine Green	84	(3)
Writing Self and Place
Helen Boden	87	(4)
Feeling, Smelling, Hearing, Tasting Perhaps, But Not Seeing
Gillie Bolton with Catherine Byron and Robert Hamberger	91	(4)
Pictures, coloured paper and pens, buttons and skulls
Gillie Bolton	95	(2)
4. Writing from Published Poems
Edited by Victoria Field	97	(26)
The Dot of the I
Roselle Angwin	99	(3)
Ways of Looking, Ways of Seeing
Miriam Halahmy	102	(3)
In the Guest House of the Heart
Sherry Reiter	105	(3)
How the 'Hang-Out Poets' Came to Be
Patricia L. Grant	108	(3)
A Poem as a Beginning
Fiona Hamilton	111	(2)
The Great Zoo
Elaine Trevitt	113	(3)
On 'Educating the Imagination'
Dominic McLoughlin	116	(2)
Edges, Risks and Connections: Reflections on a Workshop Led by John Fox
Leone Ridsdale	118	(5)
5. Writing in Form
Edited by Victoria Field	123	(18)
Haiku
Gillie Bolton	126	(2)
Pantoums
Kate Thompson	128	(3)
Why Sonnets?
Robert Hamberger	131	(3)
Ghazal: A Poem of Love and Loss
Jane Tozer	134	(4)
Genre
Gillie Bolton	138	(1)
Part Two: Writing from Within	139	(97)
6. What People Need to Write
Edited by Kate Thompson	141	(17)
Series of Three
Kathleen Adams	142	(3)
'This is the Story of My Birth...'
Maria Antoniou	145	(2)
Voices from the Streets: The Brighton Big Issue Writing Group
Dominique De-Light	147	(3)
Configurations of Self
Jeannie Wright	150	(2)
Lindy's Story
Kate Evans	152	(3)
One-to-One Creative Writing Session: Writing Emerging from Personal Spoken Experience
Fiona Hamilton	155	(3)
7. Different Masks
Edited by Victoria Field	158	(23)
I am True, I am False, I am Impossible
Graham Hartill	161	(1)
Character Creation from Self and Opposite
Alison Clayburn	162	(2)
Head and Heart
Alison Clayburn	164	(3)
Writing the Shadow: An Exercise for Exorcising the Demons Within
Reinekke Lengelle	167	(4)
Two Colour Vignettes
Geri Giebel Chavis	171	(1)
Contours of the Self: Dialogues with the Multifaceted 'I' Voices
Monica Suswin	172	(4)
Meet Your Writer Exercise
Claire Williamson	176	(1)
Critic Tango: A Workshop on the Inner Critic
River Wolton	176	(5)
8. Who am I?
Edited by Gillie Bolton	181	(17)
Structured Diaries for Depressed Women's Self-Help Groups
Irmeli Laitinen	182	(2)
Bursting Free: Writing and ME
River Wolton	184	(4)
Motivating for Success
Steven Weir	188	(2)
Two Vignettes
Geri Giebel Chavis	190	(2)
Creating Your Mission Statement for Life and Work
Debbie McCulliss	192	(2)
Personal Heraldic Coat of Arms
Annette Ecuyeré Lee	194	(4)
9. Life's Journey
Edited by Gillie Bolton	198	(14)
First Thing
Rose Flint	199	(2)
Who Wrote This?
John Hilsdon	201	(3)
Memory Books
Angie Butler	204	(2)
One-to-One Creative Writing Therapy Sessions
Jo Monks	206	(2)
The Journey of Life: A Workshop with Teenage Cancer Patients
Gillie Bolton	208	(4)
10. Loss and Change
Edited by Kate Thompson	212	(18)
Mending the Lives of Children: The Humfylumph
Carry Gorney	214	(3)
Writing in Spite of Physical Barriers
Judy Clinton	217	(2)
Exploring Childhood: Lacan and Kristeva
Christine Bousfield	219	(5)
Dear Ray...Love Jean
Kate Thompson	224	(2)
Writing as Evolution
Briony Goffin	226
11. Conclusion: Writing Works
Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson	230	(6)
APPENDIX 1. MAP OF THE BOOK	236	(3)
APPENDIX 2. CLASSIC EXERCISES	239	(1)
APPENDIX 3. USEFUL RESOURCES	240	(2)
REFERENCES	242	(3)
CONTRIBUTORS	245	(8)
SUBJECT INDEX	253	(2)
AUTHOR INDEX	255