Cover -- Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- SOMEONE SAYS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- What this Book Offers and Why -- Running Groups -- Writing Therapeutically and Writing in Therapy -- Part One: Writing from Without -- 1. Warming Up and Working Together -- Where are you Today? -- Hobnobs -- The Magician's Assistant -- Acrostics -- AlphaPoems -- Group Poem: The Making of a Group -- Telling Tales: Script Conference and Storytelling Exercise -- 2. Writing about Place -- I Know My Place -- A Workshop with the Theme of the Sea -- Riverlines -- Inspiration and Serenity: A Workshop in the Outdoors -- A Corridor with Many Doors -- Image Explorations -- 3. Writing from Objects -- Singing Baked Bean Tins and Other Talismanic Objects -- Two Creative Writing Activities: Using Plasticine and Personal Objects -- Empty Box -- Roman Story -- Feather and Stone -- Writing Self and Place -- Feeling, Smelling, Hearing, Tasting Perhaps, But Not Seeing -- Pictures, Coloured Paper and Pens, Buttons and Skulls -- 4. Writing from Published Poems -- The Dot of the I -- Ways of Looking, Ways of Seeing -- In the Guest House of the Heart -- How the 'Hang-Out Poets' Came to Be -- A Poem as a Beginning -- The Great Zoo -- On 'Educating the Imagination' -- Edges, Risks and Connections: Reflections on a Workshop Led by John Fox -- 5. Writing in Form -- Haiku -- Pantoums -- Why Sonnets? -- Ghazal: A Poem of Love and Loss -- Genre -- Part Two: Writing from Within -- 6. What People Need to Write -- Series of Three -- 'This is a Story of My Birth…' -- Voices from the Streets: The Brighton Big Issue Writing Group -- Configurations of Self -- Lindy's Story -- One-to-One Creative Writing Session: Writing Emerging from Personal Spoken Experience -- 7. Different Masks.

I am True, I am False, I am Impossible -- Character Creation from Self and Opposite -- Head and Heart -- Writing the Shadow: An Exercise for Exorcising the Demons Within -- Two Colour Vignettes -- Contours of the Self: Dialogues with the Multifaceted 'I' Voices -- Meet Your Writer Exercise -- Critic Tango: A Workshop on the Inner Critic -- 8. Who am I? -- Structured Diaries for Depressed Women's Self-Help Groups -- Bursting Free: Writing and ME -- Motivating for Success -- Two Vignettes -- Creating Your Mission Statement for Life and Work -- Personal Heraldic Coat of Arms -- 9. Life's Journey -- First Thing -- Who Wrote This? -- Memory Books -- One-to-One Creative Writing Therapy Sessions -- The Journey of Life: A Workshop with Teenage Cancer Patients -- 10. Loss and Change -- Mending the Lives of Children: The Humfylumph -- Writing in Spite of Physical Barriers -- Exploring Childhood: Lacan and Kristeva -- Dear Ray…Love Jean -- Writing as Evolution -- 11. Conclusion: Writing Works -- APPENDIX 1. MAP OF THE BOOK -- APPENDIX 2. CLASSIC EXERCISES -- APPENDIX 3. USEFUL RESOURCES -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.