Karen Forbes – Jersey Festival of Words

WELLBEING JOURNALLING WORKSHOP

Did you know that we experience up to 60,000 thoughts per day? So how can we offload?

Karen Forbes will be leading a fun and interactive Creative Journaling workshop at HMC La Moye. The session will focus on ‘writing to express, not impress’ and includes an introduction to the practice of journal writing for well-being. This is a fantastic skill which allows us to explore our own feelings and emotions through spontaneous expressive writing. Whilst facilitating writing through a series of prompts and themes, Karen will explore the importance of maintaining good mental health through writing, giving tips and ideas for practice beyond this session, and allowing time for wild writing and reflection. No experience necessary, just an interest in the power of words and an open mind to ‘have a go’.

Karen is a former English and Drama teacher who studied the MA Scriptwriting & Screenplay at the University of East Anglia. Her credits include: Rebellious Sisterhood (Jersey Opera House, as part of UK tour); Edith- In the Beginning ( the story of Edith Pretty at Sutton Hoo); All Mouth No Trousers (song writer and script consultant); Barbed Wire & Teddy Bears performed at Jersey Arts Centre in Liberation Week, 2022. She is a member of Lapidus International, (therapeutic writing organisation) and currently working on a song commission in collaboration with UEA/ Norwich Writers’ Centre/ The Common Lot theatre company Songs of Protest & Hope research project.

 

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Condor Ferries
Jersey Heritage
Freedom Holidays
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St Brelades College in Jersey

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