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THE COMPOST LIBRARY: WRITING THE SHIFT

£80.00
sold out

We’re delighted to announce the fifth iteration of The Compost Library: WRITING THE SHIFT – Writing Towards Transformation.

Across four gently held sessions, we’ll explore the radical tenderness of Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown; a text rooted in emergent strategy, care-based accountability, and transformative justice. This course invites you to approach writing not just as a creative act, but as a process of ongoing personal and collective change.

Where previous Compost Library programmes began with authors offering creative structures or ecological cosmologies, this iteration centres writing as a relational and restorative practice; one that allows us to compost perfectionism, shame and fear, and nurture new stories through trust, truth, and connection.

With brown’s lens of “loving correction” as our guide, we’ll explore how to meet ourselves and each other with more curiosity and compassion. We’ll ask: what needs to be rewritten? What stories are ready to evolve? How can we practice creative accountability on the page and beyond it?

“Loving correction is the root of transformative justice. We want to call people back in, not out. We want to bring people back into right relationship.” — adrienne maree brown

Each week we’ll read together, write in community, and reflect through prompts, dialogue and gentle somatic practices. This course is about slowing down, listening closely, and allowing what wants to emerge to take shape. It’s for writers, artists, organisers and anyone drawn to the messy, beautiful process of becoming.

LOGISTICS

We are inviting 30 participants to join us for all 4 sessions. By making this commitment, we create a tender and consistent container for shared learning, trust-building and storytelling. Please consider applying with an area of your creative or personal life that you feel ready to examine, reflect on, or shift.

SCHEDULE

  • Week #1: 9 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

  • Week #2: 16 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

  • Week #3: 23 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

  • Week #4: 30 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

Location: Young Space, 85-87 Southgate Rd, London N1 3JS

Each session includes a beautifully printed workbook and a Compost Notebook for your writing, reflection and note-taking throughout the course.

COST

This course is offered on a pay what you can basis, with a minimum of £20 per session. All materials are included.

If you have questions or access needs, please email: compost@worm-s.com

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THE COMPOST LIBRARY: WRITING THE SHIFT

£80.00
sold out

We’re delighted to announce the fifth iteration of The Compost Library: WRITING THE SHIFT – Writing Towards Transformation.

Across four gently held sessions, we’ll explore the radical tenderness of Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown; a text rooted in emergent strategy, care-based accountability, and transformative justice. This course invites you to approach writing not just as a creative act, but as a process of ongoing personal and collective change.

Where previous Compost Library programmes began with authors offering creative structures or ecological cosmologies, this iteration centres writing as a relational and restorative practice; one that allows us to compost perfectionism, shame and fear, and nurture new stories through trust, truth, and connection.

With brown’s lens of “loving correction” as our guide, we’ll explore how to meet ourselves and each other with more curiosity and compassion. We’ll ask: what needs to be rewritten? What stories are ready to evolve? How can we practice creative accountability on the page and beyond it?

“Loving correction is the root of transformative justice. We want to call people back in, not out. We want to bring people back into right relationship.” — adrienne maree brown

Each week we’ll read together, write in community, and reflect through prompts, dialogue and gentle somatic practices. This course is about slowing down, listening closely, and allowing what wants to emerge to take shape. It’s for writers, artists, organisers and anyone drawn to the messy, beautiful process of becoming.

LOGISTICS

We are inviting 30 participants to join us for all 4 sessions. By making this commitment, we create a tender and consistent container for shared learning, trust-building and storytelling. Please consider applying with an area of your creative or personal life that you feel ready to examine, reflect on, or shift.

SCHEDULE

  • Week #1: 9 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

  • Week #2: 16 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

  • Week #3: 23 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

  • Week #4: 30 April, 6:15pm – 8:15pm

Location: Young Space, 85-87 Southgate Rd, London N1 3JS

Each session includes a beautifully printed workbook and a Compost Notebook for your writing, reflection and note-taking throughout the course.

COST

This course is offered on a pay what you can basis, with a minimum of £20 per session. All materials are included.

If you have questions or access needs, please email: compost@worm-s.com

Add To Cart

ABOUT COMPOST LIBRARY

Hey, it’s Clem MacLeod and P. Eldridge here. We’re the co-founders of The Compost Library, an open access learning programme with the aim of helping people to discover how to reap the personal, social, and political benefits of reading and writing for mental wellbeing. With a focus on tender participation and co-creation, we gather, share, listen and collectively imagine literary futures.

Clem’s (@clompch) approach to facilitating is led by a personal history of using reading and writing to overcome mental health challenges. After studying fashion for 5 years, she realised that the most effective way of communicating and coming to terms with her personhood and identity was through therapeutic and creative practices of writing alongside sharing the stories and processes of other writers. She leads workshops with care and gentleness, helping people feel safe to express themselves and the challenges they are facing in their emotional and creative lives. Her literary influences are Chris Kraus, bell hooks, Susan Sontag, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Julia Cameron.

P’s (@pierceeldridge) approach to facilitating is guided by the exchange of stories. Offering everyone a moment to come together and share, her process gives participants the space to pause, reflect and comfortably offer as much or as little of themselves. Deeply interpersonal, the basis of this practice is about listening and gently guiding people to the knowledge they already hold within themselves. Her literary inspirations are McKenzie Wark, Kathy Acker, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks, to name a few.