Spring Depth Writing Workshop
Explore the seasons & cycles of your self-experience through the symbolism of Spring - online & in person - March 2025
The snow drops and catkins that seem to have magically appeared everywhere in my West Yorkshire valley are a sure sign that Spring is well on its way.
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If you’re interested in exploring the seasons and cycles of your self experience through the primal energy of Spring and its associations with renewal, you can join me for a Spring Depth Writing Workshop this coming March.
Dates & times
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire - Sunday March 9th 1.30 - 4.30pm
Find out more about the Hebden workshop & book here
Online - Wednesday March 19th, 6.30pm - 8.30pm GMT
Find out more about the online workshop & book here
What to expect
Depth writing is a transformational tool aimed at facilitating creativity, supporting self-discovery and expanding possibility. It’s a process-focussed approach to writing rather than a product-focussed one, which means there’s no need to worry about spelling and grammar and there will be no pressure to read anything out.
The in person and online Spring Depth Writing Workshops will be a chance to press pause on the busyness of life in order to explore what aspects of your life might be due a ‘spring clean’ alongside an opportunity to reflect on new beginnings & projects and what we can learn from the wisdom of nature about blossoming and renewal.
The workshops will include guided timed writing exercises of between approximately five and fifteen minutes alongside small group discussions where you will have a chance to connect with others and share your experience of the process & any insights arising from it.
Who is it for?
Those interested in exploring writing & imagination as tools for transformational growth
Writers and creative practitioners interested in deepening their practice
Professionals in the transformational growth, psychology, education, social care, health care, arts, culture & creative industries sectors interested in expanding their range.
A note about care
Although Depth Writing is transformational, it’s not therapy so you are encouraged to:
Be responsible for your own experience, go at your own pace & engage with the material at a level that feels right for you
Avoid over-disclosing any matter that is particularly painful or private
Seek therapeutic support should anything particularly difficult come up
Practice CARE - confidentiality, attention, respect & empathy - with others.
The Psychology of Carl Jung Online Summit
Sunday February 23rd
Carl Jung’s ideas about the role of creativity and imagination in relation to transformational growth are very much an influence on the practice of depth writing, as it’s evolved from my PhD in applying Jungian psychoanalysis to creative writing. So, I’m really looking forward to giving a talk on Creativity & Imagination in the Psychology of Carl Jung as part of a Seed Talks online summit dedicated to exploring what Jung has to teach us this coming Sunday February 23rd .
If you’d like to come along, you can find out more and book here
The latest from Depth Writing With Dr Rachel
In my monthly dispatch on travels between worlds, I’ve written about the visionary film maker David Lynch, who died last month, and what his films can teach us about noticing the mystery. At the end of the post, you can find Lynch-inspired depth writing prompts, which you can do in your own time.
Read or listen to the audio here
About me
I’m a writer and creative guide with a PhD in applying Jungian psychoanalysis to creative writing. I have over twenty years teaching experience from my time as a lecturer in Higher Education. I’ve since gone rogue from academia to become an independent writer and to deliver depth writing workshops, courses & retreats aimed at facilitating transformational growth. I’m an HEA Associate, an Editorial Team Member at the London Arts-Based Research Centre and Co-Editor of forthcoming Routledge publication The Creative Psyche: Between Spirit and Matter. And, as you’ve probably guessed, I love to dive deep.
Its illuminating to find you and read about your work Dr Rachel. I have tacked waters adjacent to yours with my forays into depth psychology, contemporary mysticisms and the creative process. I've been chiseling out my 'Divinatory Poetics' workshops in a way that true to the terrain, often have me feeling like a blindfolded dust mote dropped into a page of Dante's inferno, (not violence, only strange, uncannily beautiful and sometimes frightening disorientation). It's exciting to begin to finally locate others who wander in these fields I have long loved. Your workshop sounds compelling! Perhaps sometime I will join you, but I have just committed myself to Madelyn Kent's Sense Writing course, (hers is of a kin...leaning somatic). Yay girls! smart stuff!