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Escaping the cobra den with a stretch and a doodle
Last Wednesday, between the carers’ course and the write-together, I had an hour to myself.
 • Kate Poll
Three Year Dream To See Wild Ponies
A three-year pilgrimage, the highest hill on Exmoor (a mountain to me), and what happens when your healing metaphor proves more nuanced than you…
 • Kate Poll
The Compassion Circle is coming to Self-Centred
A spacious, creative circle for deepening the compassionate voice through writing.
 • Kate Poll
Wednesday Write Togethers in July
Art-Inspired Writing for Wellbeing – free to attend throughout July and August
 • Kate Poll
From scrabbling to scribbling: how expressive writing can help us stay centred
A found poem reclaimed from my first Weekly Wednesday Write Together scribbles. Join us next Wednesday to write your own.
 • Kate Poll

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Summer at Self-Centred
Something I hoped for is beginning to happen and it makes my heart glad.
 • Kate Poll
Three Emotional Systems That Drive Me – and You
Fuelled by threat, running on drive – and the soothing I found when I identified the pattern
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I find myself rejoicing and free
The power of the pantoum to create poetry & community
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June at The Self-Centred Community
Six months in, and something is beginning to grow
 • Kate Poll
A weekly space to turn toward yourself and write creatively in community.
Weekly · Wednesdays 5:30–6:30 pm UK · Free ·
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Do you find it easier to be kind to others than to yourself?
Compassion Journalling works from the inside out. Using two-pen dialogue, visual mapping, poetry and mindfulness, you’ll develop your own compassionate…
 • Kate Poll
There's a question I ask almost every therapeutic writing client and participant
Not necessarily at the outset – but when they're struggling to find clarity, or lacing their self-disclosures with criticism and contempt.
 • Kate Poll
Self-Centred: Consider This a Beginning
my grubby but indispensable journal
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Passing the Baton
We're looking for the next editor(s) of Lapidus International Magazine. It might be you.
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AM I A CHANCER
Expressive art – that prioritises authentic feeling over technical polish – is the heart of my therapeutic writing practice. Which made my own response…
 • Kate Poll
Embodied Lovingkindness & Compassionate Body Dialogue Workshop
1st May – a free gift for subscribers
 • Kate Poll and Alice Bramhill
Leaving Big Tech (or trying to): an in-progress dispatch
I promised to report back. So here I am, a little wide-eyed from frontal cortex overload and only partially victorious.
 • Kate Poll
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