Friday 12th December - 13.30 – 17.30
This 4-hour workshop offers you an exciting opportunity to explore your creativity and imagination through warm-up games, mindfulness-based practices, and short spontaneous bursts of writing (flash fiction and non-fiction), which you will be invited to share with the group (optional).
Deep listening to each reading in turn will be followed by an embodied group response using our physicality to reflect what touched us, as well as a brief feedback discussion. This is to help each person to feel seen, supported and inspired.
The overall workshop focus is on unleashing our creativity, using play and inquiry to get into flow state and find your spontaneity, creativity, listening and collaboration.
The type of prompts to stimulate our writing ‘bursts’ will be stories or thoughts around dreaming, reimagining, nature and community. Some reflection on the past year, to lead us into the next, will underlie these themes.
We will have breaks for drinks and snacks but please come having had lunch.
Anyone over 18 welcome whatever your background of experience.
Cost of the workshop: £35
Held by Julie and Kerry Stevenson
Kerry is a Totnes-based mindfulness teacher and nature-connection guide who weaves creativity, play, and deep listening into her work. A lifelong theatre performer drawn to Improv and Physical Theatre, she’s also training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to foster empathy, connection, and repair.
Julie lives in Teignmouth and has been an English teacher/tutor over many years, mostly in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tunisia and the UK. She has run creative writing retreats in Zimbabwe, Cambridge and now runs regular creative writing courses here at the Pavilions.
