Press Play: The Joy of Writing
Event description
Discover the rich, portable joy of writing in this 4-week series of workshops with award-winning novelist and writing mentor Helena Fox. Writing is a timeless practice of creation, release, reflection, curiosity, and play. It can help calm our nervous systems and give us a sense of connection with ourselves and the world around us. When we write, we get to see the world in all its colours, and we get to celebrate our place in that world.
In this series of workshops, we will follow various visual, word, and conceptual prompts to tap into our subconscious selves, connect with our playful selves, and let our unique stories out. We will write together, talk about our writing together, and support each other. These workshops will be relaxed and inclusive—a safe space to explore and honour the storyteller inside us all.
NDIS participants can enrol for this course HERE
Workshop 1: Monday 6th September 6-8pm
Workshop 2: Monday 13th September 6-8pm
Workshop 3: Monday 20th September 6-8pm
Workshop 4: Monday 27th September 6-8pm
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Press Play is a series of creative courses designed to kickstart a playful practice, and also learn how this practice can be a vital and delightful habit of self care, for mental wellbeing.
Press Play facilitators are trained as creative prescribers, with Mental Health First Aid training and tools for self reflection in a creative workshop.
Materials
This course just requires yourself, a writing notebook and a pen/pencil/quill - whatever you love to write with!
ABOUT HELENA FOX
Helena Fox is a writer and creative writing mentor living by the sea in Wollongong, Australia.
Helena’s debut novel, How It Feels To Float, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award and Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Writing for Young Adults. She is published by Dial/Penguin Random House in North America, Pan Macmillan in Australia and New Zealand, and Best of YA in the Netherlands.
Helena has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in the US. She mentors young writers and runs workshops on creative writing and writing to help mental health. Helena has travelled widely, living in Peru, Spain, the U.K, Samoa, and the US. Of all her adventures, she is proudest of her work helping young people find and express their voice.