Writing for Wellbeing – Loughborough

– a project for carers –

Are you an older carer living in Leicestershire?

Join writer Katie Sone at four relaxed and enjoyable ‘Writing for Wellbeing’ sessions

Explore how writing can be good for you, slow busy minds and

stimulate ideas and precious memories.

Who is running the project?

Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland and Beauty and Utility Arts

Where?

Charnwood Museum, Granby St, Loughborough, LE11 3DU

When?

2nd May, 10:30 – 12:30

How much?

FREE

How do I book a place?

Limited spaces. Please contact: Jeanette Silver, Development Worker –

Charnwood Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland

on 01509 260327 or at jeanette.silver@ageukleics.org.uk

What is involved?

This kind of creative writing can be good for your wellbeing and relaxation. It is for anyone

of any writing ability. It is not about creating a finished product but using the process of

writing, in a supported environment, as a way to calm the mind.

This writing can:

· Help to reduce stress & anxiety.

· Be relaxing & calming – by taking us out of our racing thoughts and focussing

on something else.

Help to free up the mind, dump mental clutter, clarify, untangle and organise our thoughts

and ultimately, be a release.

What others have said about this Course:

“I was taken out of my busy thoughts, and transported right into a memory, I feel relaxed

and it hardly took a minute!”

“Writing today has reminded me of all the things I have done…Feeling nostalgic”

“Memory is a funny thing…one word can set you off remembering”

“I was reminded that my mind is a powerful thing and when I use it creatively, it can help to

heal my life….. if I let it!”