Write It Down! classes are designed to empower and encourage everyone to write down their lives, thoughts, hopes, fears, ideas and imaginations on paper with a pen, irrespective of education or writing skills.

We believe that this is crucial. Not only to experience the scientifically acknowledged benefits of therapeutic writing, but to leave a record for future generations, to kick-start creativity and to discover our unique writing voice. 

Writing holidays, retreats and workshops might conjure images of grammar lessons and storyline-plotting, but that's not what Write It Down! is about. We want to celebrate the joy of writing in all its forms. In our busy lives we are always promising ourselves that we will stop, slow down, relax. We'll start that novel, or simply 'do something creative'. We'll empty our minds of the chaos we've collected along the way, and find time to follow our thoughts for longer than two minutes, allowing ourselves to escape into our imaginations. Maybe we will learn to meditate, or take a long walk through wild landscapes and peaceful forest paths.

But our ever increasing ‘to do’ lists take priority and our life, and our family's lives fly past; the small wonderments are never recorded.

We live our lives publicly on social media, editing as we go, presenting our ‘brand’ to the world, when what we truly need is to strip away our protective clothing and be honest with ourselves, inviting our subconscious out onto the page and back into our lives.

We need to stop feeling guilty about 'wasting time' day-dreaming, and instead give ourselves permission to sit and think, to nurture the inner being that stays silent and suppressed in our hectic everyday lives. We need to write letters to our lovers, to our mothers, to ourselves. We need to play with words and ideas. We need a hard copy record of our thoughts and feelings, our children’s lives – our world. Our signatures, our handwriting is the visual expression of our individuality that we need to practice, treasure and preserve.