Everything I’ve learnt, everything I’ve taught.
I’ve been a creative/craft volunteer at Inkwell since around Easter time. I was prompted to start as I wanted to gain skills in leading workshops and explore it as a possible career area as part of the Live Projects module. I had been working with Loren on this, but with her off home for the … Continue reading
Just like last summer, I went to Beacons Festival as part of the Loosely Bound Zining Collective and offered zining workshops to festival goers each of the three days. I took on the co-ordinator role this year, which meant I: submitted out application (which I counted towards my Live Projects module in second year); was … Continue reading
Over the summer I’ve completed an online training course for a NCFE Level 2 certificate in Mental Health Awareness. I was able to do it for free as part of staff development at my job at the University of Leeds. I wanted to do the course as I volunteer with Leeds Mind at Inkwell, I … Continue reading
On the second day of the three day workshop we continued on from learning about the forming stage and moved into storming. As you can imagine of a session entitled ‘storming’ it was challenging. I had to facilitate a group where someone had to role play having such low self-esteem and lack of confidence that … Continue reading
This was day one of three for the Group Facilitation course run by Yorkshire Counselling Training. As a volunteer for Leeds Mind (Inkwell) I was offered the opportunity to attend this short course at a very discounted rate, so I signed up! I was a little concerned that the course would be very counselling heavy … Continue reading
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming, is an inspiring book that inspires creative processes. Trying out different ideas and recording them is a weakness of mine, but all the ideas in this book are common sense, quick, and straightforward and therefore very do-able. Continue reading
I did a short workshop on writing for the web today. I like making content for the web and designing websites, although I don’t have the skills to make them myself. I’ve managed a few websites in my time, but I’d like to learn more. Here are some top tips and notes from the session… … Continue reading
It was Worldwide Pinhole Camera Day on Sunday 27 April, so on the Friday before the big day I went to Vernon Street to make a pinhole camera and buy some photo paper. The camera was really easy to make. It was a bit of black mount board, laser cut to shape, that you folded … Continue reading
Nope, I would not. I came to that conclusion after running a workshop at Alwoodley Primary School, the biggest primary school Leeds. It was just too much for me – all the different people, the constant moving around, and the noise – it was stimulation overload. I was pooped at the end of the day. Plus, … Continue reading
I’ve been helping the Arthouse in Wakefield get ready for the 20:20 Print Exchange exhibition, which is launching on Wednesday. It’s been a busy day of sanding, painting, and doing it again. We are getting lots of boards ready to hang the prints from. The exhibition space is in an old office space that hasn’t … Continue reading
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