Please find below an overview of the programme for the Creative Bridges Conference 2017.
If you would like to view a more comprehensive list of the programme days, including descriptions of each session and biographies of the presenters please follow the below links:
Click here for Saturday’s programme.
Click here for Sunday’s programme.
Click here if you would like to download the below timetable as a pdf document.
Creative Bridges: Working with Words for Wellbeing
Day One: Saturday 29th July
| 10.00am- 10.30 am | Registration | |||
| 10.30am – 11.00 am | Introductions | |||
| Strands | Research | Writing with people affected by trauma | Writing in groups | Good practice and evaluation |
| 11.10am-
12.30 pm |
The Tiger Who Came to Tea: Playing with the potentiality of research impact – by Tony Wall
Chair: Barbara Bloomfield |
CWTP and Acquired Brain Injury: notes on delivery – by Louise Emma Fellows
Chair: Lorna Hill |
The Group As Poem: Writing for Well-being in the contexts of Modernism, Post-modernism and Beyond – by Graham Hartill
Chair: Christina Shewell |
A Fine Balance: Preparing and Supporting the Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP) Practitioner –by Claire Williamson
Chair: Nicola Sinclair |
| 12.30pm – 1.30 pm | Lunch and Poster Presentations | |||
| 1.30pm – 3.00 pm | Creativity and Research – How do they go together?- by Kim Etherington
Chair: Tony Wall |
Poetry as First Port of Call for Newly Arrived Children – by Cheryl Moskowitz
Chair: Louis Emma Fellows |
Group Work in End of Life Care – by Helen Stockton
Chair: Graham Hartill |
Feedback Informed Practice – by Nigel Gibbons
Chair: Victoria Field |
| 3.00pm – 3.30 pm | Break | |||
| 3.30pm – 5.00 pm | Sounds and Words in Brain and Body: Connections to Well-being by Christina Shewell
Chair: Kim Etherington |
Writing With Women – by Lorna Hill
Chair: Cheryl Moskowitz |
Playdough and Understanding Externalising Devices – by
Barbara Bloomfield Chair: Helen Stockton |
Improving client well-being through multidisciplinary team working: Writing for well-being group intervention –by Susan Ferry & Nicola Sinclair
Chair: Nigel Gibbons |
| 5.00pm – 5.30 pm | Plenary: Claire Williamson & Lapidus | |||
| 6.00pm – 7.00 pm | Conference dinner. For tickets go here. | |||
| 7.00pm – 8.00 pm | Open Mic | |||
| 8.00 pm | Close | |||
Day Two: Sunday 30th July
| 10.00am- 10.30 am | Registration | |||
| 10.30am – 11.00 am | Speaker: Charmaine Pollard – Self-Care, Writing and Trauma | |||
| Strands | Research | Writing with people affected by trauma | Writing in groups | Good practice and evaluation |
| 11.10am-
12.30 pm |
Well words: An autoethnographic and heuristic study exploring language inspired by the well archetype and the impact of CWTP at the Chalice Well –by Dawn McHale
Chair: Kate Pawsey |
The paper isn’t judging – by Jeannie Wright and Dr. Ravi Thiara (PANEL)
Chair: Georgie Oldfield |
Memory and metaphor – group work with bereaved adults – by Jane Moss
Chair: Dolly Garland |
The Use of Creative Writing as an adjunct to self-management techniques on an inpatient Chronic Pain Management pilot study – by Roshni Beeharry
Chair: Lily Dunn |
| 12.30pm – 1.30 pm | Lunch and Performance Poet | |||
| 1.30pm – 3.00 pm | Poetry Therapy and the Therapeutic Effects of Metaphor for People Diagnosed with Psychosis – by Karoliina Maanmieli and Elisa Auvinen
Chair: Dawn McHale |
Voice & Witness: Rethinking creative writing pedagogy for mental health- by Carolyn Jess-Cooke Chair : Jeannie Wright |
‘Refugees Writing in Wales’ – 2003-2017 – by Eric Ngale Charles;
Chair: Jane Moss |
Roots and Branches of Good Practice – Into the Woods – by Victoria Field
Chair: Claire Williamson |
| 3.00 – 3.30 pm | Break | |||
| 3.30 – 5.00 pm | Non-Sense? Play, Pointlessness, Pens and Points in Research and Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes by Kate Pawsey & Fiona Hamilton
Chair: Elisa Auvinen |
The benefits of therapeutic journaling in the treatment of PTSD and chronic pain – by Georgie Oldfield
Chair: Carolyn Jess-Cooke |
Meet Your Muse – by
Dolly Garland
Chair: Eric Ngale Charles |
Creative Writing: Is it time to challenge the distinction between writing well and writing to get well? (Panel) – by Lily Dunn
Chair: Roshni Beeharry |
| 5.00 – 5.30 pm | Plenary: Clare Scott & Metanoia | |||
