Kenton Wellness Festival 2026: Free-Write Your Way To Better Health

Workshop Title: Free-Write Your Way To Better Health

Practitioner Name: Carol Leff

Time: Sunday, 7 June 2026

Time/Duration: 14:30 (3 hrs)

Venue: Bushmans Town Hall

Price: R250

What to bring: please bring a pen, pencil and notebook. Writing will be done by hand, no laptops!

Contact: 083 673 7393 / [email protected]

Workshop info:

This creative workshop will equip you with freewriting techniques for health and well-being. Quite simply, freewriting is the uninterrupted, continuous pen-to-paper action for a set time, allowing the hand to write without stopping. While freewriting, you enter a trance-like, meditative state where you learn to trust yourself and your inner wisdom. Using a stream of consciousness method, you can ignore sentence structure, perfect grammar, spelling and censorship, and just write freely. We will bypass that inner critic and allow subconscious thoughts to surface naturally.

Through a series of creative freewriting exercises and specific writing prompts, this workshop will have you flexing your creative muscles, becoming more mindful and trusting yourself. The benefits of freewriting are numerous and include stress reduction, self-reflection, emotional release and enhanced creativity. You will come away from this 2.5 hour workshop feeling inspired, ready to keep on writing and continue along your own creative, healing journey.

Bio:

Carol Leff spent decades working in the field of wellbeing, and her background includes training in aromatherapy, shiatsu, reflexology, and reiki. She is also a freelance editor with a PhD in literary studies, is the author of The Afropolitan Flâneur in Literature (2022) and a collection of poetry titled flashes (2009). The creative arts have been a vital part of Carol’s own healing journey, and today her work weaves together therapeutic practices with creativity and nature.

As a writer, editor, and visual artist, Carol offers creative writing and printmaking workshops that invite reflection, expression, and play. She believes that healing can be gentle, imaginative, and deeply nourishing.