Online Writing Retreat with Claire Bowers

Friday 24th October 2025
10 am – 5 pm
Online via Zoom

This is a gentle, structured online space to help you shift from writing paralysis to writing
purpose. Whether you're facing an upcoming assignment, exploring the shape of a future
article, or simply want to deepen your connection with writing as part of your therapeutic
development—this retreat invites you to bring all of you: the anxious parts, the curious parts,
and the parts with something to say - this retreat invites you to bring all of you: the anxious parts, the curious parts, and the parts with something to say.

Aims:

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By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:

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• Reflect on their personal and professional relationship with writing.

• Build confidence in psychotherapy academic writing.

• Understand the differences between writing for assignments, reflective journaling, research papers, and articles for publication.

• Apply script theory, including personal and education scripts, to writing blocks, internal criticism, creative flow, deadline difficulties.

• Create a personalised writing map they can return to in future projects.

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Activities:

• Writing and the Self
• Writing for Assignments: Structure, Voice & Integrity
• Beyond the Assignment: Writing as Thinking,
• Research and Contribution
• Writing Lab
• Integration and Writing Map
• Experiential exploration of writing anxiety, inner critics, and writing as process
• Structure, referencing, planning, and integrating theory
• Developing research questions, reflexivity, and publication pathways
• Guided live writing and peer feedback
• Commitments, future ideas