Embroidery
| Time: | 10:00-12:30 |
| Location: | Online |
| Tutor: | Renata Minoldo |
In this online workshop, we will freehand embroidery together and use this practice as a way of grounding,connecting with each other and slowing down while learning some basic embroidery stitches and gathering in conversation.
Fully booked
Ikigai - The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
| Time: | 10:30-12:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Tutor: | Hilary Lyons |
The people of Japan believe that everyone has an Ikigai or a reason for being. Finding it can lead to a happier, more fulfilled life. Explore your existing talents and future potential within a framework of purpose, vocation and passion.
Fully booked
Connect through acting
| Time: | 11:00-12:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Deirdre Strath Clyde |
Learn to use acting techniques to make deeper and more playful connections with others.
Fully booked
Connect through singing
| Time: | 11:00-12:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Trish Shaw |
Explore how we connect with others through singing together.
Fully booked
Frazzled Cafe Meeting
| Time: | 11:30-12:30 |
| Location: | Online |
| Speaker: | Damian (Frazzled Cafe) |
Join us for an online version of our Frazzled Cafe facilitated peer support meetings. Frazzled Cafe meetings are designed to provide confidential and non-judgmental peer support, where people who are feeling overwhelmed by the stresses of life can talk openly, connect and feel heard. If this is your first time attending one we encourage you to have a look at the website which will tell you a bit more about what to expect: https://www.frazzledcafe.org/about/
‘Please come flying’: how poetry can help us make connections
| Time: | 14:00-16:00 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Laurie Smith |
Many of us sometimes feel we don’t connect enough with other people. We will look at how poetry can help us in this situation by seeing how some fine poets have responded to feeling a lack of connection by writing some great poems.
Fully booked
Haiku for wellbeing at the National Gallery
| Time: | 15:00-17:00 |
| Location: | National Gallery |
| Speaker: | Pearl May |
Writing Haiku poems can provide a peaceful distraction from challenges to wellbeing through focusing on creative writing and bringing awareness to our surroundings. Working in Haiku form can support us to get in touch with ourselves and the world around us, help show our place within it, as well as generate a feeling of achievement.
Fully booked
Metta Meditation
| Time: | 15:15-16:15 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Madlyn Ray-Jones |
Join together in community to practice Metta meditation. We will be directing loving kindness to ourselves and then, in a sequence of expansion, towards others. The practice helps to focus and calm the mind, and cultivate feelings of joy, gratitude, and compassion. Please wear comfortable clothing as we will prepare for meditation with some gentle movements and stretches. All equipment will be provided, and everyone is welcome.
Connect to Silent Self through Yoga Nidra
| Time: | 15:30-17:30 |
| Location: | Online |
| Speaker: | Sarah Scott |
Discover the immediate effects & benefits of using the breath to change ‘the space’ and connect to oneness.
Authenticity Beyond Appearance
| Time: | 18:30-19:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speakers: | Dr Ally Jaffee, Dr Chukwuemeka, James Downs |
Join us for an inspiring evening, hearing from experts who will discuss how society's obsession with appearance, is having a catastrophic impact on mental health and how there is a collective responsibility to conquer eating disorders.
Fully booked