Writing about your work: turning your professional experience into compelling non-fiction Facilitated by Bev Thomas

Writing about your work: turning your professional experience into compelling non-fiction

Facilitated by Bev Thomas

Two consecutive three- hour workshops

Friday 16th and Friday 23rd October

13:00 hrs. to 16:00 hrs. UK Time

By Zoom

Using the craft of storytelling, this workshop will help you develop your idea into an engaging narrative.

Now, more than ever, there is a hunger for learning about work that explores the human condition, but if you’re immersed in a specialist field, it can be hard to translate these ideas and concepts to a universal audience. Whether it’s an article in a newspaper or magazine, or starting a Substack or a blog, the ability to write about complex ideas in an accessible and interesting way is a skill – and this workshop will show you how.

Two consecutive three-hour workshops will cover the following:

• What do you want to write about? Clarity about your focus

• Who do you want to write for? Knowing your audience

• What’s the story? - key fundamentals of storytelling and their role in writing non-fiction articles

• Procrastination, and the conscious and unconscious blocks to creativity

• Confidentiality and anonymising your work

• Finishing a first draft - now what?

The workshops will include teaching, writing exercises, group discussion and feedback and will be facilitated by Bev Thomas. It will be a small group, so limited places available.

It can be helpful (but not essential) to come to the workshop with something in mind that you would like to write about.

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Bev Thomas was selected as one of the Guardian’s ten best debut novelists in 2019. Her two novels, A Good Enough Mother and The Family Retreat in 2022 were published by Faber to critical acclaim and were translated into numerous other languages. An experienced workshop facilitator, she has also done radio interviews, spoken at numerous book festivals, and has written articles for national newspapers, journals and magazines and is passionate about finding ways to make complex psychological ideas more accessible to a wider audience. She is currently completing her third novel, as well as working on a non-fiction project.

After many years working as a clinical psychologist in the NHS, she went on to do further training in systems-psychoanalytic theory and for the last twenty-five years, alongside her writing, her career has focused on consultation, coaching and on the dynamics of life in the workplace.