MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes Open Event

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Metanoia’s MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP) is a unique non-clinical course. It offers a distinctive learning experience through writing and discussion, provides comprehensive theoretical content, and equips students with practical skills and resources for the field of CWTP.

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Metanoia’s MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP) is a unique non-clinical course. It offers a distinctive learning experience through writing and discussion, provides comprehensive theoretical content, and equips students with practical skills and resources for the field of CWTP. The course’s core values are deeply humanistic and person-centred, placing a strong emphasis on individuals’ potential for growth, change, and positive movement in their lives.

Our MSc appeals to people with a dual interest in creative writing and therapeutic work. Our students include counsellors, creative arts practitioners, writers in various genres, including journalism, health and social care workers, literary and psychology graduates, professionals with an interest in narrative practice, people in IT businesses, human resources, and entrepreneurs. Congratulations on taking this next step in your career. We’re looking forward to meeting you.

 

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Fiona Hamilton

Head of Programme, MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes

Fiona Hamilton specialises in creative, expressive and reflective writing and devising projects with creative and therapeutic aims. She is a mentor and has extensive group and one-to-one experience of facilitating in the NHS and complementary healthcare, with community groups devising projects to raise awareness and challenge stigma, with young people in schools, and on experimental poetry and drama projects. She is Arts Lead for the National Centre for Integrative Medicine and at the University of Bristol teaches students who wish to complement clinical studies by exploring concepts of health and their own lives using poetry, movement, humour, conversation and reflective writing. Fiona has published drama scripts, poetry collections, radio pieces, and public art, and a play for live online audiences during the pandemic exploring the power of music and dance for healing. Particularly relevant to her CWTP role are published work for the book ‘Medicine, Health, and the Arts’, ‘Words and Thresholds’ in Scriptum Creative Writing Journal, and the books ‘Writing Routes’ and ‘Writing Works’.