Do you like to read books about textiles? if so join me for this relaxed textile book group. Share your thoughts on the book of the month and get ideas for new books to read.This month's book is The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn Monday 26th January at 6pm This will be recorded

Do you like to read books about textiles? if so join me for this relaxed textile book group. Share your thoughts on the book of the month and get ideas for new books to read. This month's book is On Mending by Celia Pym. Monday 23rd February 6pm

Do you like to read books about textiles? if so join me for this relaxed textile book group. Share your thoughts on the book of the month and get ideas for new books to read. This month's book is Fabric, A Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay. Monday 23rd March 6pm

Finding Your Focus is a holistic & mindful approach reviewing your year and thinking about your creative life. We cover core values and why you do what you do, review the last year, decide your own criteria for success and only then create your gentle goals or guiding lights which will give you focus over the year. Includes 5 pre-recorded video lessons and workbooks plus a live Q&A on Zoom (20 Jan 6pm).

Three months of prompts and advice for developing your own reflective writing / journalling around a creative practice, business or other creative work. Includes: start up resources, weekly prompts released every 7 days from your start date and a monthly review process. You can also join monthly co-writing sessions with Ruth. This is a repeat of the autumn 2024 course. If you have done that, join course 2 instead

Three months of prompts and advice for developing your own reflective writing / journalling around your creative practice. Includes: start up resources, weekly prompts released every 7 days from your start date and a monthly review process. You can also join monthly co-writing sessions with me. This is a new version with different prompts from course 1. You can do either or both (discount applies if you book both).

12 weeks of two writing prompts per week.

My guide to reflection and reviewing your work or creative practice every month. A free download of 2 A4 pages. You can print and hand write this or write straight into the document

Exploring your creative values and artistic voice. This workbook is designed to help you figure out that really tricky question of 'what kind of artist am I?' I've spent a long time working this out myself and have supported many creatives in doing this too. This exercise is a supported thinking activity for you to understand your own creative practice better. 14 page, print your own copy.

I believe goals should be like guiding lights, reminding you what you want to do and how you want to be during the year. Gentle Goal Setting self-study workbook is 20 pages full of supportive thinking exercises to help you set meaningful goals. We look at reviewing the year, working out your own criteria for success and creating achievable, realistic and inspiring goals and keeping going with them through the year.