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WRITING IN HEALTHCARE
Creative writing and reading can promote health and well-being. In the UK, the literary arts are now used in hospital, social care, hospices, prison, psychotherapy and primary care settings. This course is intended as an introduction to the theory and practice of using the literary arts as an integral part of healthcare. Participants will experience the different ways writing can be used with patients, clients and in educational or community settings. There will be practical examples of different kinds of intervention, discussion of the ethical and theoretical background and a chance to reflect on the process. For anyone using literature therapeutically or working towards accreditation, certificates of attendance for CPD purposes can be provided. VICTORIA FIELD is a writer and publisher and qualified as a Certified Poetry Therapist in 2005. She has co-edited two books on therapeutic writing, Writing Works with Gillie Bolton and Kate Thompson (Jessica Kingsley Press, 2006) and Prompted to Write with Zeeba Ansari (fal, 2007). She presents widely on the subject, including regularly in the US where she was given a Pioneer Award by the National Association for Poetry Therapy in 2006. She is a former Director of Survivors Poetry an organisation promoting poetry by survivors of mental distress and had two periods chairing Lapidus, the UK's organisation for reading and writing for health and well-being. In 2006, she was writer-in-residence at Truro Cathedral. She has published two poetry collections, a children's book and has had two plays produced by Hall for Cornwall. More details are on her page on fal publications and also on www.poetrypf.co.uk GRAHAM HARTILL studied art and performance in the United States in the before returning to Wales to devote himself to writing. He helped found Lapidus, and has worked in extensively in settings as varied as hospitals and mental health centres. For nine years Graham worked with elderly people as Lifelines facilitator for the Ledbury Poetry Festival and is now the permanent Writer in Residence at HMP & YOI Parc, Bridgend. His selected poems, Cennau's Bell, was published in 2005 and his latest book, A Winged Head by Parthian Books in 2006. He teaches on Bristol University's Diploma in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. More details on Cennau's Bell is available at http://www.blackmountainpoet.co.uk/graham_hartill.htm Guest: Larry Butler, poet, dramatherapist, tai-chi facilitator and convenor of Lapidus Scotland. Fee: £480 (single room), £420 (shared room)
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