Conference Overview

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	From Writing to Research – Lessons learned from poetry, the community and academia – by Christina Thatcher 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	Ready or not, one day I shall die – and so will you! –by Larry Butler 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: Asha Sahni	Meet Your Muse – by Dolly Garland Chair: Larry Butler	Creative Writing: Is it time to challenge the distinction between writing well and writing to get well? (Panel) – by Lily Dunn Chair: Francesca Baker
5.00 – 5.30 pm	Plenary: Clare Scott & Metanoia

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