Therapeutic Nature Writing

The outdoor workshop in St George’s Gardens will focus on deepening a connection with the environment and sense of history, while enhancing our responses in the present. Areas of the graveyard will serve as prompts for the imagination — like a treasure map where we seek and hope to find inspiration from place and creativity from within. The surrounding nature — trees, flowers, ivy, squirrels, and birds — can heighten the interdependence of life and death, past, present, and future.

Activities will include a word poem (a combined clustering of the group’s responses to the site), writing inscriptions in place of those worn out on the graves, or, as an alternative, finding one of the ancient plane trees and writing what it has seen. We will finish by inviting participants to share their writing or their experiences if they wish to do so.

Please note: In the case of wet weather on the day of the workshop, please head to Holy Cross Church on Cromer Street (WC1H 8JU).