Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities

by Gillie Bolton (editor), Kate Thompson (Editor), Victoria Field (Editor)

The use of creative writing as a route to personal development is a powerful therapeutic tool - a fact that is recognized in the growing numbers of workshops and writing groups within professional contexts, including clinical, health and criminal justice settings.


Writing Works is a guide for writers or therapists working with groups or individuals and is full of practical advice on everything from the equipment needed to run a session to ideas for themes, all backed up by the theory that underpins the methods explained. Experienced practitioners in the field contribute detailed illuminating accounts of organizing writing workshops for a wide range of different clients, together with examples of their outcomes.


This book will be an invaluable start-up reference for arts therapists and professionals working across the health, social care and caring professions, and one that will be referred to again and again.

Genres: Nonfiction, Writing

256 pages, ebook

First published August 15, 2006

About the author

Dr Gillie Bolton is an international authority on writing and author of a long publication list including nine books (one in 4th Edition), academic papers (many in top-ranking journals), as well as professional articles, poetry, and for a lay readership.

Early years in an Epping Forest village near London, in a seventeenth-century farmhouse and 2 years in Singapore, were augmented by school in Southwold, Suffolk. Social Anthropology (MA Cantab) at Cambridge University was a firm foundation on which to build work with people. Her PhD, from the University of East Anglia Medical School, is based on some of her many academic publications. Retired, she now lives in Central London and Derbyshire’s Hope Valley with her emeritus professor husband.

Reviews

[Elliot A · Rating 4 out of 5]

A resourceful book that provides the reader with guidance and ideas to overcome writer's block and/or begin and facilitate writing groups.

It acts more like a handbook and reference guide to various writing techniques, which can be consulted over and over again rather than just read once through.

Greater emphasis on the practice and application of the various writing techniques would have been more helpful and would have made this book overall the perfect resource.

Unfortunately, I found myself making mental notes to research a certain practice here and there throughout the book.

In general, though, I will certainly use the practices and ideas from this book for future writing sessions and as resource material for term papers.

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[Fen Hadrian · Rating 4 out of 5]

creative writting is in other way of Zen, which gives a great way to know and express self.
everyone should learn ,but my country builted the GFW so that many have no chance.what a pity.