.writing as a tool to learn and heal.

Inpirational Source Nr. 1

James W.Pennebaker -examination of a putative relationship between writing, talking and physical health. He is professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas and Austin and is the author or editor of 8 books and over 200 articles. He has devoted himself to understanding the mysteries of emotional writing. And using schientific research, he has constructed a writing program that has changed people's lives.

New York Times article about Mr. Pennebaker: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14prof.html?_r=1

Inspirational Source Nr.2

Celia Hunt -writer, teacher and founder of the MA programme in creative writing and personal development at the University of Sussex. 

Member of the Lapidus journal (UK-based organisation for the literary arts in personal development)- offers diverse articles exploring areas of writing for wellbeing, from writers reflecting on their own process, to practitioners and researchers involving writing in their work with others.

to find more information about Celia, visit:

http://www.sophienicholls.com/tag/writing-therapy/

Iniprational Source Nr.3

Peter Abbs -has written widely on education, working to join the concept of education to those of ethics and aesthetics. With the distinct sense of being opposed to the dominant trends, he has written on creativity, the arts and of the need for sense of well-being, og eudaimonia, of human flourishing. His most recent book "Against the Flow" (www. routledgefalmer.com) is his most outspoken and most comprehensive. 

A little insight:

From time to time one can be haunted by a paralysing dread-that we are stranded at the beginning of a new millenium in a culture where all spiritual resources have been spent, where shopping is the last world religion, where the latest Tesco is the last cathedral and where the concept of consumerism is the last idea. It is as if one had dreamt of the vast ocean or high paths over the Alps and woken to find oneself confined to a shopping arcade for the rest of ones life..