Description
How To Start Writing: Developing Your Internal Editor
Workshop Series
Learn From British Gestalt Journal Editors, Christine Stevens & Dora Durvasi
Session 1: An Introductory Workshop For Aspiring And Novice Writers
Participants will be supported to explore their writing process, discover themes close to their heart and begin to find their writing voice. There will be an introduction and theoretical framing for writing, which will be followed by experiential small group work. We`ll look at the process of writing by touching on themes such as figure formation, experimentation, drafts, emergent themes and cross-writing synergy.
Sessions 2: A Follow-Up Workshop For Writers Wanting To Take Their Writing Further
Participants will be supported to discover and explore their internal editor. There will be an introduction and theoretical framing for editing your work. We will look at the process of developing your argumentation style, tone and appropriate structures for your writing. We will touch on themes such as contact and support, intentionality, creative indifference, tight writing sequences and dissemination.
Facilitators
Christine Stevens, PhD is an editor of British Gestalt Journal. She is an international Gestalt therapist, supervisor, trainer, writer and for 16 years member of faculty for the Doctoral psychotherapy programmes at Metanoia Institute. She is Chair of the EAGT Research Committee. Christine is the Co-ordinator of the International Gestalt Practitioner Case Study Project. She is particularly interested in practitioner research and specialises in the integration of theory and practice with creative methods in gestalt psychotherapy.
Dora Darvasi (She/her), MA is deputy Editor British Gestalt Journal. She is a Gestalt therapist and intersectional supervisor with a private practice in London. She is Visiting Tutor on GSRD and Gestalt Therapy Theory and the Gestalt Centre, London and other therapy institutes. Several of her paper have been published, one of which, In and out of the Gender Pail (2023) has been translated to German, Outside of therapy engagements, she writes creatively.
