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Turning Experience Into 
Creative Understanding

Guided courses and mentorship offering 
space for reflection and insight.
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

When you're looking for meaning not answers

Over time, personal narratives can fragment or drift from what once mattered. What restores coherence is not correction, but reflective space: slowing the process, listening carefully, and allowing meaning to be re-formed in its own time.

This is a place to slow down

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Lucy Windridge-Floris

founder of Writing Sense

You’re in the Right Place

If you are curious about writing as a way to listen, reflect, and make sense of your experience, this is for you.

 

The stories we live by influence how we see ourselves and how we act; learning to notice and work with them can create room for choice, responsibility, and change.

I am especially attentive to how relationships, institutions, and early settings shape identity, voice, and belonging. This is warm, considered work, rooted in the belief that writing can be a quiet force for connection, wellbeing, and repair.

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Thoughtful Structure

Explore your personal story through writing and narrative

Writing Sense Methodology

Steady
Guidance

Focused 
Prompt

Room to
Explore

Explore Our Pathways

The pathways below reflect different ways of entering and sustaining a writing practice, from short guided sessions to long term work.

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Start date: Wednesday 16 September 2026

A six month creative writing journey 

For women exploring the emotional legacy of boarding school

A gentle, reflective course for women.

No previous writing experience required.

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Taster Sessions

A supportive introduction to reflective writing for women shaped by boarding-school experience.

 

No previous writing experience required

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Start date: Tuesday 18 March / Tuesday 10 June

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Start date: Saturday 23 May 2026

Truth and Trickery

A one-day reflective creative writing series exploring truth, deception, and power in personal experience and the wider world. Guided writing, conversation, and optional sharing in a supportive space.

No prior writing experience needed. Just bring curiosity, a pen, and a willingness to explore.

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Making Sense in
Uncertain Times

A gentle, small-group introduction to writing and narrative as practices for exploring experience, making sense of uncertainty, and finding your bearings in a changing world.

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Start date: Wednesday 22 April 2026

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One-To-One Mentoring

A gentle, reflective space for personal or professional exploration.

For those who benefit from an ongoing, responsive working relationship.

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Why Walk This Path

Not coaching. Not quick wins.
 

Time. Attention. Relationship.

 

A reflective space supporting creative language, insight, and new forms of understanding.

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Emily M.
Living with Uncertainty

The wellbeing writing sessions led by Lucy were transformative for me. Having thought I would be completely out of my depth, the supportive, positive sessions enabled me to write and share my writing with others in the group. 

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Sharha
Living with Uncertainty

The wellbeing writing sessions led by Lucy gave me a sense of freedom to express myself. I felt secure in both groups and, while writing, I was able to reflect on myself through the words. Each session provided me with a new approach to developing my understanding of the world in a creative way. It was a magical, joyful experience for me.

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Craig
Living with Uncertainty

My mood definitely improved because it felt like I had achieved something I didn’t know I could do.
The sessions were so positive and inclusive. A sense of connectedness was there at every session.

 

For me, the sharing of the work, and hearing the contribution of the other participants made a huge impact. 

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Explore Your Creative Story

If you are ready to work with personal experience using this approach, start here.

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