Dear All,
One final update before the darkest nights and the bright lights of Christmas!
We are all taking a full break over the Christmas period and none of us will be at our desks after today until the week beginning Monday January 4th.
Here are some of the things to look forward to in the New Year!
After a lovely start to our new series of Recovery Conversations, with John Elsworthy sharing about Nature Connection, our next event is on Sunday January 10th 11.30am - 1pm with our very own Caspar Walsh with a focus on Mindfulness.
We have a new booking system for these through Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/recovery-conversations-tickets-132802183907 or you can join through the normal Zoom link.
These Recovery Conversations will continue every month, alternating on weekday evenings and weekend mornings with speakers on each of our three lenses of Nature Connection, Mindfulness and Creativity.
Following dates: February 10th, March 13th, April 14th
Our next Online Recovery Retreat runs on the weekend of January 22nd-24th. We are already getting bookings in for this!
Please do share the details with anyone you know who is interested to join - https://www.writetofreedom.org.uk/online-retreats
Applications are now open to staff this retreat.
If you are thinking about applying to staff, all of the information is at the beginning of the quick application form which is available here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1q3SASHKXZvFjR9IlzR9Ov6ga_QTx5VjE6V4h1Nnjcq4/edit
The deadline for completing the staff application is Monday January 4th.
Tribe Space runs every two weeks on Zoom, and for now Ben is leading the sessions.
Ben says “Tribespace has become a regular place to connect in with yourself and the W2F community. We get a chance to land, check in, and be led in creativity / nature connection / mindfulness processes and activities. There is also space for folk to grow in their leadership, by finding and developing activities to lead in the group. If you have a piece you’d like to bring, contact me in advance so we can talk it through!"
The next Tribe Space will be Tuesday 26th January, with Tuesday 12th set to be a monthly Round Table - our community consultation space.
Other dates for your diaries!
The first monthly Mentoring Days of 2021 will be January 30th, February 27th and March 27th (Open Experience Day).
We have a new year-long Creative Pathways programme exploring the Archetypes with single days over 5 weekends.
Intro Day - March 20th (in person)
Lover Day - April 10th (in person) / April 11th (online)
Warrior Day - June 12th (in person) / June 13th (online)
Magician Day - October 9th (in person) / October 10th (online)
Sovereign Day - December 11th (in person) / December 12th (online)
This programme will also be open to others who are in established recovery, and more details about the programme will follow in January.
All these upcoming dates will go on our website in the New Year.
Caspar is putting together a guide book for multi addiction recovery. There will be a section covering each addiction.
It will primarily be for people in addiction recovery and also for the wider world to gain insight, empathy and connection into the many different recovery processes. It will include poetry, art and text and will be a work of inspiration and beauty.
This is an open call to the Tribe to see if any one would be happy to write a short piece for the book on your personal journey into recovery. Caspar will send you prompt questions and a guide to the structure of each section and can help in the editing process.
It would need to include a little of your story, your challenges and your reaching a place of relative freedom. It can of course be anonymous.
This will be unpaid. Money generated from sales will support Write to Freedom and its aims.
Decisions on which story will be included will be based on the overall structure (yet to be decided) and flow of the stories as a whole.
Stories need to be complete by end of January 2021.
Please let Jo or Caspar know if you would like to be involved.
Have a read of this new blog post with some lovely reflections from the November Tribe Retreat days - https://www.writetofreedom.org.uk/news-blog/2020/12/17/reflections-from-our-tribe-retreat
All best wishes to you all for a peaceful and healthful 2021,
Jo x