Gillie Bolton

Write Yourself (eBook, ePUB)

Creative Writing and Personal Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Write Yourself is the ideal introduction to how to facilitate groups and individuals in finding inspiration for their creative personal writing voices. This book explains how and why writing is such an illuminative, healing, and cathartic process, and provides many practical exercises that encourage the exploration of emotions, memories and experiences. Chapters cover the use of writing with a variety of client groups, including those made up of people suffering from depression, anxiety or health problems, and advice is given both on running and participating in successful writing groups.

This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working across the health, social care and caring professions, arts therapists and for everyone interested in the therapeutic qualities of creative writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857003089
• Artikelnr.: 38239270

Autorenporträt

Gillie Bolton has worked in reflective and therapeutic writing for personal and professional development for twenty-five years, and has written and edited five books, one of which is now in its third edition. A grandmother of three, she lives in Bloomsbury, London, and Hope Valley, Derbyshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Nicholas F. Mazza, Ph.D. Acknowledgements. Preface. Part 1:
Creative Personal Writing - What, Why, How, Who When, Where. 1. Becoming
Our Own Shaman: Introduction to Therapeutic Creative Writing. 2. 'A Story
of Gaining Understanding and Insight': How to Begin. 3. 'I Got in Touch
with Myself': Values, Principles, Practice. Part 2:Writing with Specific
Groups. 4. 'Secrets Kept Safe and Sound': Children Writing. 5. 'Writing is
a Way of Saying Things I Can't Say': Writing with the Very Sick. 6. 'Keep
Taking the Words': Writing to Help with Anxiety, Depression and Mental
Health. 7. 'Follow the Wings of the Imagination': Writing and Therapy or
Counselling. 8. 'Writing Gives us Wings so We Can Fly': Writing in
Substance and Alcohol Abuse Treatment. 9. 'Ideas Hunt Me, Catch Me, Make Me
Write': Writing for Victims of Torture and Asylum Seekers. 10. A Craft to
Take You Through Storms, and Keep You Still': Writing in Prison. 11.
Understanding Misunderstanding: Reflective Writing for Professional
Development. Part 3: How to Run Groups; Conclusion. 12. Mystery and
Mastery: Running Therapeutic Creative Writing Groups. 13. 'It Helped Me Get
Involved with Myself': Running Residential Writing Groups. 14. 'Tread
Softly Because You Tread on My Dreams': Conclusion, a Conversation Between
Juhani Ihanus and Gillie Bolton. Appendix: Writing Exercises by Theme.
Bibliography. Index.