Writing As Coalition Building: a feminist writing group for clinicians
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. –
Joan Didion
Through writing prompts, discussing writing on writing and presenting works in progress, this writing group welcomes clinicians looking to develop their writing on the relationship between feminisms and psychotherapeutic practice.
There is no hierarchy of writing experience – you may be a published writer or you may be writing for the first time. Perhaps you are working on blog pieces, online articles, translating a master’s thesis into an academic publication, or writing a book chapter or book. Whatever you are working on, you will have opportunity to share your work with each other for feedback and loving critique.
The group will be rooted in a feminist ethic of care and reciprocity. A regular writing group supports a consistent writing practice and places the work in dialogue with others. Through both offering up your work for critique and through engaging with others’ work, we will collectively deepen our understandings of, and engagement with, feminisms and therapeutic praxis, as well as considering the audience of the writing and where to locate it.
To express interest in joining the group, email: feministtherapynetwork@protonmail.com providing brief details of your hopes for the group and the writing you plan to be working on. Please also include your preferred day/time for the group to run (see below).
Details:
A monthly online group via Zoom for 2-hour sessions over six months. Cost: £110.00 for the six-month block. Day/time: TBC. Please indicate a preference for: Mondays 1-3pm | Fridays 3-5pm | Sundays 2-4pm
Facilitator:
Rebecca Esho Greenslade (she/her) is an existential-feminist psychotherapist, Zen Buddhist chaplain and writer who is still learning how to write. Her publications include: The Clinician as Killjoy (Without Killing Joy) (2025), The Other of a Feminist Praxis of Empathy (2020) and Existential Psychotherapy and the Therapeutics of Activism (2018). She also writes for the Feminist Therapy Network blog. Her research and writing practice explores the interstices between embodied philosophy, psychotherapy, spirituality and liberatory feminisms; she is currently undertaking a PhD project that considers how a spiritualized feminist psychotherapeutics can intervene in contemporary modes of alienation.