The Writing Workshop
Date: Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th October
Time: 9.30am–5.00pm
Venue: Tavistock Consulting, 94 Belsize Lane,
London, NW3 5BE
Cost: £280
Apply: Contact Nai Labaca,
Course Administrator,
[email protected]
2-Day Writing Workshop
with David Armstrong and Robert French
The aim of this workshop is to help participants with the
process of exploring or formulating ideas in writing. One goal
is for each participant to leave with a workable draft of a piece
of writing, although this may not be aimed at publication.
Participants may wish to bring an existing draft or to take the
opportunity to develop a new idea, and may choose to work on
a wide range of ‘products’, whether it be:
• academic (a journal article, book or book chapter, conference
paper or doctoral proposal/thesis);
• practical (a brochure, course materials, a website entry or
a training booklet);
• or more broadly creative (a general ‘think piece’, a poem
or a short story).
The workshop may have value for those with little experience
of writing, for those who experience blocks in the process, for
people who wish to develop new approaches, themes or styles,
or for those who are simply looking for a ‘space’ for writing.
The workshop will include time for individual writing and
reflection, and will also involve work in pairs and in smaller
groups and whole group discussion and free association.
Participants will need to arrive intending to write…!
What previous attendees have said:
‘
Attending the two days gave me permission
to see writing possibilities. They helped in such
a simple, yet powerful, way to “give me
permission” to write in a way that felt a better
fit for me than the academic writing I had been
struggling with
.’
What I loved about it was the feeling of being
‘truly
like “classmates” – each of us with work of
our own to do, but cheering each other on and
recognising myself in the experiences that many
others had. Given what I now appreciate as a
deeply sensitive challenge (writing), for me the
workshop was an experience of navigating in
the safe channel between too much constraint
and too little support, so thanks for that!
’
‘
It was Writing, Work and a Gift Shop. …I had
an experience of lots of very generous people,
with talks, associations, emotions, advice, and
knowledge. A containing space/structure, group,
and facilitators. Help with content and process,
but the stuff I wrote was still mine.
’
David Armstrong is an Associate Consultant at
Tavistock Consulting in London. He is a former
board member of ISPSO and has published
extensively. A volume of his collected articles
was published in 2005: Organisation in the
Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations, and
Organisational Consultancy – Occasional Papers
1989–2003, ed. R. French. London: Karnac. With
Michael Rustin he was a co-editor of Social
Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a
Paradigm, published by Karnac in 2014.
Robert French is a writer and independent
coach and organisational consultant, formerly
Reader in Organisation Studies at Bristol
Business School (UWE). In 2015, he published
with Peter Simpson Attention, Cooperation,
Purpose: An Approach to Working in Groups
Using Insights from Wilfred Bion (Karnac); he
also edited Rethinking Management Education
(Sage, 1996), with Professor Chris Grey, and
Group Relations, Management, and
Organisation (Oxford University Press, 1999),
with Professor Russ Vince.