Activity | 29th June 2024 | Solar Plexus Chakra

The chakras and their themes are the springboard for a series of Saturday workshops through 2024. Each workshop is stand-alone.

This workshop’s chakra is associated with identity, and the establishment of a sense of personal power and confidence.

We’ll write about the emotions, colour, element, and part of the body connected with the chakra. We’ll investigate ‘sticking points’ and what might be the remedies. We’ll consider levels of awareness, and how they might affect our own unique approach to creativity.

The emphasis across the day will be on exploration – and fun! Using a variety of prompts, games and devices, there’ll be lots of inspiration and opportunity to birth brand new writing.

The day is both for those who have experience in writing as well as for those who would love to see what tumbles out when their pen meets paper.

Remember your pen and notebook!

Katie Griffiths

Katie is the recent winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition. Her
full-length poetry collection, The Attitudes, was published in 2021 by Nine Arches Press. She
was awarded second prize in 2019 in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Do not indulge
indigo’, and in the same year was the prize-winner in the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition
with My Shrink is Pregnant.

With long experience in the delivery of creative writing workshops, Katie has been a teacher
of English at a college of further education, a freelance journalist, and a volunteers’
coordinator for refugees of the war in the former Yugoslavia. A member of the London-based
Red Door Poets, she also enjoys singing and has popped up at gigs and open mic nights with
the harmony combo Fells and Such.

She is a regular volunteer at the Healing Sanctuary.

Her passion is encouraging a joyful encounter with words and all their mischief and magic.