Jackee Holder works as a creative writing tutor, speaker, an executive coach, a coach trainer and an intuitive facilitator. She has run personal development workshops and retreats, talks and seminars in the UK and internationally.

She’s the author of four books, 49 Ways To Write Yourself Well, Be Your Own Best Life Coach, The Journal Journey Guidebook and Soul Purpose. She maintains a daily journal writing practice that she attributes to saving her life. The core message of her work is spreading (and making accessible to as many people as possible) knowledge about the therapeutic benefits that can be gained from expressive and journal writing, which she calls the new Paper Therapy.

2 Minute Interview:

How does your workshop relate to being in the NOW?

Writing is a way of slowing down and being in the moment. Writing (particularly by hand) changes the rhythm of the breath. The range of our listening and observational abilities extends and deepens. Writing brings into focus what matters, putting us in touch with both the visible and the invisible. There’s powerful information in the Now which writing taps into.

What are you most looking forward to doing within your slot at NOW?

I love witnessing how writing cracks us open. Many forms of writing are both healing and revealing. There’s a magic that’s created when we come together to write in community.

Any tips on how the audience can most benefit from your workshop? 

Come with a favourite pen or writing instrument (if you have one), plus an open mind and heart.

At Deptford Lounge:

“Writing changes lives and lives are changed by writing.” 

This will be a taster Paper Therapy session, which will be a hands-on session writing in the now and in the moment. Using notebooks, images, scraps of paper, index cards, luggage tags and large sheets of paper, where and what you write on or in will be up to you.

The focus of the workshop will be a series of writing prompts designed to bring to life feelings, emotions, dreams and desires and if you hit that right spot on the page, untold stories or stories you didn’t know existed.

You’ll be invited to awaken mind, body and soul through a series of writing sprints, expressive writing and mindfulness breathing exercises, bringing together the flow that exists in the space between the writing and the breath.

Discover writing prescriptions that will improve your well-being, lower stress and offers a range of physical and emotional benefits.

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