Bristol Festival of Literature (workshop)

Bristol Festival of Literature: Creativity Circles taster
90-min workshop to deep-dive into your creativity, and unleash what longs to express through you…take-away tools & practises. £5. Discount for Creativity Circles course for those attending: This is a snapshot of my longer form events and courses for creative explorers…

The Two Faces of Inspiration: From Sabotage to Genius

Have you noticed how your desire to create – to put your dreams into action – can inspire a raft of excuses, doubts, distractions and competing priorities?  Not enough time, space, quiet or money. Being needed elsewhere. Looking after other people. There’s always tomorrow, next week, month or end of the school holidays. Right? With […]

Transformational breathing: tools for wellbeing & wholeness

Practise THREE simple breathing techniques – and explore their impact on your state of mind, your inner being and physicality: * 4-4-4 breath * Kundalini breath or ‘breath of fire’ * Accelerated breathing – or “conscious breathwork”   Conscious breathing will empower you to: * manage anxiety * energise a dream, intention or goal * […]

When The Door Jams. A short story by Mags

When The Door Jams. Short story by Mags MacKean Weariness makes her confused – at least that’s how she explains boarding the wrong train.  She is too surprised to feel anything like annoyance. That comes later. For now, she is washed out, spat out, gazing at an unremarkable platform without the promise of anything to […]

BBC RADIO 4 Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne

I was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne (tx: Friday 26th Feb 2016), with veteran columnist Katharine Whitehorn, Author Madeleine Bunting, and shepherdess and mother-of-eight, Amanda Owen. Inevitably we each had a unique take on “Me Time” – what is it and what makes us yearn it? How […]