Expressive Creative Writing Courses & Mentoring

Do you dream of writing memoir, poetry and fiction, but wonder how to begin?

Do you buy notebooks and pens for your creative writing, then never find time to use them?

Do you want to put pen to paper, only to hear your inner critic trying to stop you?

Would you like to share your writing with a small group of supportive fellow writers?

Are you ready to take the plunge and get to know your own, unique creative writing voice?

I run a range of Creative Writing for Wellbeing courses to free up your words, feed your soul, connect you to other people, and make you feel better about both your Creative Writing and yourself. I do this by creating a contained and confidential space in which people can write and build relationships with others at depth in a relatively short space of time. I bring to the work my own creativity, my knowledge of and sensitivity to the English language, my love of poetry, prose and playfulness, and my expertise in working with groups of adults.

Read my course / workshop FAQs, including aims and objectives for participants, and my theoretical approach to running Expressive Creative Writing workshops.

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Breathe

Breathe

Tuesdays (Zoom, UK time)
29 April - 24 June 2025
Group 1: 10.00 am-12.00 noon BST; Group 2: 6.30-8.30 pm BST
For this eight-week course, I’ll bring a range of ‘breath’-related prompts to sessions 1, 3, 5 and 7. But for sessions 2, 4, 6 and 8, in the spirit of inhale and exhale / call and response, I’ll devise prompts to invite…

CoursesRachel Godfrey28 January 2025

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

Thursday 15th May 2025
7.00-8.30 pm BST
Interested to find out how ‘live’ expressive writing can help you gently explore and connect with yourself, your boarding school experience, and others?

CoursesRachel Godfrey13 January 2025

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

Thursday 12th June 2025
7.00-8.30 pm BST
Interested to find out how ‘live’ expressive writing can help you gently explore and connect with yourself, your boarding school experience, and others?

CoursesRachel Godfrey10 January 2025

Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds

Thursdays, 24th July-28th Aug 2025
6.30-8.30 pm BST (Zoom)
A series of six Creative Writing for Wellbeing workshops offering ex-boarders inroads towards …

CoursesRachel Godfrey9 October 2023

People, Places, Things

People, Places, Things

Tuesdays (Zoom, UK time)
16 Sept - 9 Dec 2025
Group 1: 10.00 am-12.00 noon
Group 2: 6.30-8.30 pm
The sessions on this twelve-session course will cycle between people (known and unknown), places (rural and urban), and …

CoursesRachel Godfrey10 December 2022

My Dreaming Self: Creative writing from dreams

My Dreaming Self: Creative writing from dreams

Next course dates TBC
Like poetry, our dreams juxtapose images, motifs and metaphors in fresh and surprising ways…

CoursesRachel Godfrey2 December 2022

Mentoring and Editing

Mentoring and Editing

One-to-one sessions to help you develop and build confidence in your Expressive Creative Writing practice.

CoursesAnne Tregoning4 June 2021