The next Taster Day
* 6th October 2010*
- Time: 10am-4pm
- Venue: Rooms 5 and 6, MEA House,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8XS. - Cost: £50 including buffet lunch
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About Taster & Writing for Fun Days
Taster Days provide an introduction to Writing for Health and its potential as a tool for enhancing wellbeing. Suitable for anyone who is interested in how writing can improve physical and mental wellbeing for themselves or for people they support in their work. Of particular interest to community and health workers who facilitate groups and/or provide support services for individuals.
Writing for Fun Days offer the opportunity to learn some basic fun exercises you can use for yourself or in your group work.
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What people say
"I have lots of ideas and much more confidence to use creative writing as a means to unlock and empower people that use our projects. Thank you."
Participant from Taster Day
"Writing for Health makes happier people."
Community Worker, SHINE - Sexual Health in the North East
"I know I talk too much but this writing makes me still and I can really get into it"
Member of Wallsend Women’s Shipyards Project
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
The general aim of these is to:
- Support individuals and groups to find their voice.
- Reduce stress levels.
- Build confidence and self-esteem.
- Amaze people at what they can achieve through writing and storytelling whatever their literacy skills or experience.
- Help people to gain insights into a problem or life event.
Pen and Tonic can provide workshops flexible to your needs. For example:
- You might want to explore a particular theme - for example how to increase staff wellbeing at work.
- Campaign to get a point of view across about issues affecting your community.
- Host a course or workshop as part of your organisation’s staff development.
- Create a story album with friends and family for a special birthday.
SUPERVISION AND MENTORING
Pen and Tonic provides supervisory support for anyone who would like to use expressive writing as a method of exploring their work.
For more information on how Pen and Tonic could work for you or your organisation
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