Are you based in Finland and want to set up or improve your own social writing group? Do you want to meet others who help writers put writing first, together?
Your group could be a regular hour a week on Zoom, or a one-off writing retreat in person.
You might invite people on your corridor, or for anyone who wants to join you in a local library or café.
You might travel miles, hire a venue, plan catering, and offer yoga or workshops as part of the package, for a few days or a few times a year.
You might be in the final phase of your thesis or novel and need some other writers to work with you for a month, every single weekday.
You might be writing your article in 12 weeks at home and glad of the company.
Your boss or supervisor might have told you to do it at work for your colleagues or students.
Whatever you choose, it’s your social writing group.
But do you have any training?
You might have read or written a lot about social writing in English or yhteisöllinen kirjiottaminen in Finnish.
You might have done Rowena Murray’s facilitator course, or you’d like to find out about it.
And do you know any other facilitators?
You might be the only person doing this in your department or institution or town. But in Finland, several of us are running social writing groups already. We are connected to the WRAP Network internationally. We just haven’t had the chance to meet in person yet.
Would you like to join us?
If you are facilitating a social writing group, or thinking about starting one, join us on Tuesday 3 December in Helsinki. This is an informal opportunity to meet, eat together, and share best practice in Finland, just before our next writing retreat. If you can’t make that date, but would like to meet up another time, let me know. More and more people are asking me about facilitating their own social writing groups. So I hope this will become a regular thing. So for ourselves and for others, we can make more time, space, and community to write. Sign up to meet up, here.
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