Congratulations to Elaine Reid on receiving her Poetry Therapy Practitioner credential from IaPOETRY. Well done, Elaine! It has been a richly rewarding experience to work with you as your Mentor. I have so enjoyed sharing your facilitation experiences and having your...

My country was calling out for volunteers during this COVID-19 Corona virus crisis and although I was raring to go, I was labelled either too old to volunteer or my blood too low to donate. They told me to check again when my blood gets high. I don’t know when that...

Over the past few years, I have been offering ‘Writing for Wellbeing’ workshops for staff at my university, and more recently for a group of secondary school teachers. As a PTP in training, I had to think about the best way to frame the workshops, knowing that ‘poetry...

This one-day workshop was a collaboration between myself and artist Fenneke Wolters-Sinke. Participants first learned how to use pages from old books to create new poems – a form of found poetry.  They were then guided on how to add a visual layer to ‘erase’ the...