Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare
Introduction to Creative Writing for Empathy | CPD Workshop (online)
Creative Empathy Hour: free lunchtime workshops (online and in person)
These workshops are ideal for healthcare professionals, students, educators, social workers, community practitioners and anyone interested in exploring the potential of creative writing to enrich their practice and perspective.
About the workshop
Explore how stories shape empathy. In these lunchtime taster sessions, we’ll invite you to explore how creative writing can spark empathy, understanding, and emotional growth in every part of life.
With gentle guidance, reflective writing prompts, shared conversations, and talking circles, you’ll discover how writing can become a meaningful practice for cultivating compassion, reflection and insight, and authentic connection.
Preparation
These workshops can be taken singly or as a series. No previous experience of creative writing is necessary. Just bring paper, pen and curiosity.
Assessment
There is no assessment for this course. The course is for your continuing professional development, and is not designed to provide a formal qualification.
This course provides 1 hour of CPD.
Upcoming dates
- 13 January 2026 | 9.30am - 12.30pm (online)
- 17 February 2026 | 9.30am – 12.30pm (in person at University of Leicester campus)
- 17 March 2026 | 9.30am – 12.30pm (online)
Introduction to Creative Writing for Empathy | CPD Workshop (online)
Ideal for healthcare professionals, educators, social workers, community practitioners and anyone interested in exploring the potential of creative writing to enrich their practice and perspective.
About the workshop
Unlock the power of words and stories to build deeper understanding, connection and emotional intelligence. Join us for a half-day workshop to explore how creative writing can be a transformative tool for developing empathy in both personal and professional contexts.
Through guided writing activities, reflective prompts and collaborative discussion, participants will discover how using writing as a creative, reflective and expressive practice can help us to foster compassion and insight across all aspects of life and better understand the perspectives of others.
- We’ll consider concepts such as the beginner’s mind, the inner critic, self-compassion and point of view.
- We’ll explore the imagination to gain fresh insights into understanding and feeling empathy.
- Our approach will be playful, mindful and fun.
- We’ll consider some of the evidence base which supports this approach to empathy and wellbeing.
- There will be opportunities to develop tools and skills for journaling and writing beyond the workshops.
Preparation
No previous writing experience is necessary and we’ll be working in a safe, non-judgemental space.
Assessment
There is no assessment for this course. The course is for your continuing professional development, and is not designed to provide a formal qualification. A certificate of completion will be provided at the end of the course.
This course provides 3 hours of CPD.
Upcoming dates
- 13 January 2026 | 9.30 am - 12.30 pm
- 17 February 2026 | 9.30 am – 12.30 pm
- 17 March 2026 | 9.30 am – 12.30 pm
Cost
- £50 (this special introductory rate provides a 60% discount on the standard cost of £125)
- Block booking: 10 places for £400
Location
Online (MS Teams).