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Join us at Science Gallery London for a creative workshop specifically for medical practitioners, with poet Wendy French.
This event is a collaboration between Arts & Health Hub and King's Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community (KUMEC), and is a part of a series of events aimed at medical practitioners and medical students focused on practitioner mental health, taking place during the The Art of Care exhibition on at Science Gallery London (22nd June - 31st July). This event is generously funded by the Louise Tebboth Foundation.
About the Workshop.
Stanley Kunitz, the American poet, who has just died, aged 100, wrote, ‘We create a self we can bear to live with’.
We all have to create, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a persona in different situations: firstly as a child in a family, at school, teenager, adult, still maybe a child with parents living, a live-in partner, parent ourselves, work colleague, and you in the medical profession as a trusted human being to your patients.
How do we live with ourselves with all these varying expectations on us from people?
How do we cope with the pressures of everyday?
What do we do take care of ourselves? What do we carry in our heads that there is never enough time to think about? Work through?
In this workshop we will spend time thinking about the different rooms in our head and how we can look after ourselves. We will write!
EM Forster, ‘said ‘How do I know what I feel until I see it written down?’
About Wendy French.
Wendy French was head of a school in a psychiatric hospital. She ran an arts-based curriculum believing in the arts as a way to help young people with chaotic existence. She has worked in the community with Croydon adult services and Surrey libraries. She now co-runs groups with Audrey Arden-Jones at the Maggie’s Cancer Centre, Royal Marsden, and on her own at Macmillan, UCH, for patients and carers. She has worked for a number of years on the Stage 2 Clinical Humanities Course at KUMEC.
She has two pamphlets and four poetry books published and has edited, with a co-editor, three books of young people’s poetry from hospital schools. She believes in the power of the word to help in difficult emotional situations.
More info about this event.
No creative experience is necessary - just a sense of curiosity and willingness to try something new.
This event is specifically for qualified medical professionals to reflect on their own mental health and wellbeing. Please do not sign up if you are not a medical professional.
The event takes place at Science Gallery London. Once registered, you'll receive an email a few days before with specific instructions on the location within the building.
Refreshments (soft drinks / water) are provided.
All materials are provided, although if you'd prefer to bring your own pen and notepad you're welcome to.
If you have any questions about this event please email info@artsandhealthhub.org.