About Writing Sense
Writing Sense is a creative practice and set of offerings designed to help people find more clarity, steadiness, and trust in their own voice.
Writing was the only way I was able to arrange and rearrange my thoughts to make them more coherent
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I am Lucy Windridge-Floris
I see writing as a way of paying attention rather than producing something impressive. My role is to offer structure, reflection, and a steady presence. I guide, listen, and respond to what is emerging, rather than directing people toward a particular outcome.
My work is shaped by over three decades in higher education, healthcare, and creative wellbeing practice. I am a former senior academic, having taught and supervised writers and practitioners across BA, MA, and PhD programmes, and my approach is grounded in doctoral research alongside postgraduate training in creative writing for therapeutic purposes and dramatherapy.
Why This Work Exists
Writing Sense exists because many people want to explore the complexity of experience in thoughtful and meaningful ways.
Writing offers a powerful tool for reflection, helping people find language, perspective, and agency while creating space for curiosity and trust to reconnect with your own voice without pressure to justify, perfect, or rush it.
How the Work Is Held
Writing Sense is held with care and restraint, with an emphasis on what is actually present in the writing.
• Guidance is offered rather than imposed
• Structure supports focus, not outcome
• Feedback is reflective, not corrective
• Language is used to clarify, not direct
Lucy facilitates the work by listening closely, naming patterns when helpful, and responding to what emerges. Participants remain responsible for their own pace, choices, and relationship to the writing.
This way of working is informed by formal training in creative writing for therapeutic purposes, dramatherapy, and narrative bibliotherapy, alongside long standing experience facilitating writing spaces within universities, wellbeing organisations, and community settings. Clear boundaries, choice, and containment are not stylistic preferences here, they are professional commitments.
Grounded Experience
Writing Sense has evolved through years of close work with writers across different stages of confidence and practice.
• Over 30 years working across higher education, healthcare, secondary treatment, and private practice
• Senior academic leadership including Programme Director and Senior Lecturer roles
• Specialist focus on narrative practice, institutional experience, and boarding school related trauma
• Active contributor to research and professional discourse at the intersection of creativity, ethics, and social change
This work has been shaped through sustained practice, research, and facilitation rather than theory alone.
This work tends to suit people who…
Are drawn to practice rather than performance
Are returning to writing after a pause
Want to build trust in their own voice
Are comfortable moving at a measured pace
This work tends to suit people who…
Are drawn to practice rather than performance
Are returning to writing after a pause
Want to build trust in their own voice
Are comfortable moving at a measured pace
It may not be the right fit if you are looking for…
Fast results or productivity driven outcomes
Prescriptive methods or fixed frameworks
External validation as the primary goal
