workshop: My Beautiful Memoir - Writing For Mental Health
Saturday 24th September
in the shop - 2pm -workshop - by donation
Please register via Eventbrite if you wish to attend so we know how many people to expect.
edit 23/08/22 - Tanya Frank will no longer be present at this workshop
Join Emma Goude and Tanya Frank for a workshop sharing the benefits of writing for mental health.
Author of My Beautiful Psychosis, Emma Goude, and fellow writer Tanya Frank, (Zig-Zag Boy: Motherhood, Madness and the Letting Go) will be facilitating this hands on inclusive workshop aimed at experienced and first time writers alike.
Be guided through exercises to explore your own story, to the level that is most comfortable for you.
These exercises will be tailor made for people with experience of mental health, from all perspectives: from those with lived experience; to their family or friends; as well as mental health professionals.
The writing itself will provide the therapeutic value, as will the safe space created by the facilitators, while the exercises will help focus the words on the page.
Emma Goude is an international award winning documentary filmmaker and author of My Beautiful Psychosis, a memoir published in 2020 by Aeon Books. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Psychology and developed her filmmaking skills at the BBC before setting up Green Lane Films, an award winning production company. Green Lane Films is currently making a documentary about Open Dialogue, to help the NHS introduce mental health professionals to this new way of working. It is this same dialogical approach that Emma introduces at the end of My Beautiful Psychosis. After accessing the mental health services on many occasions, once under a section, Emma is advocating for more democratic and effective healing pathways. Through her professional shiatsu practice, meditation experience and knowledge of cross cultural perspectives, she has come to understand psychosis in a new light. Emma is currently writing her second book Tango, Camino, Romeo, whilst living and loving in Buenos Aires.
Register via Eventbrite to attend. Donations are gratefully received (in advance or on the day!) and will go to the facilitators
My Beautiful Psychosis is a gritty tale of transformation, depicting from the inside some of the most powerful experiences a human mind can endure. The story takes place over a series of seven so-called psychotic episodes, spanning two decades. Through the framework of these episodes we join the author on a journey not only through the harsh landscapes of the psychiatric wards but also on her own pilgrimage, from troubled twenty-something to a respected documentary filmmaker and campaigner for a new perspective on mental health and wellbeing.
If you would like to reserve a copy of ‘My Beautiful Psychosis’ to collect from the shop please email us at info@octoberbooks.org
If you would like a copy delivered directly to your door, you can here.
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Photo credit: Melanie Eclare
