Completed commissions and projects

• July 2025: created creative writing prompts for Imperial Health Charity resource for patients across Imperial NHS Trusts on orthopaedic surgery waiting lists, Waiting Well

• 4th June 2025  ‘Beyond the Stethoscope-connecting to ourselves and others through writing,’  90 minute workshops designed for two cohorts of  Year 3 MBBS medical students, University of Birmingham as part of their Personal and Professional Development (PPD) Module. LinkedIn post with Student Feedback 

• 14th May 2025 : A writing workshop on ‘Imposter syndrome’ for all students at the Institute of Neurology, London. LinkedIn post with Group feedback

• 7th and 14th August 2024: Creative Lives (https://www.creative-lives.org/)and BBC Radio Berkshire commission-facilitated two Nature writing for wellbeing workshops, in Whitley Grow Allot allotment, Reading; the commission aim was to engage residents of this more deprived part of Reading, to engage in creativity, meet others and access the allotment community. A radio broadcast from the groups was aired on 3rd October 2024, BBC Radio Berkshire, Kirsten O’Brien show. Some of the poems and my prompts are  displayed in Reading Green station as metal artwork created by artists in Reading. Creative Lives press release

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• 3rd August 2024: Two in person writing workshops (morning and repeated in the afternoon), ‘My Storied Self: a writing for wellbeing & personal development workshop’ for the public, in Gibberd Gallery, Harlow , Essex,  inspired by the South Asian Heritage Month theme ‘Free to be me,’ commissioned by Suman Gujral as part of the Third Space project. Radio interview on BBC Radio Essex on 31st July 2024 to promote the workshops and gallery

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• May 2024: The Write Trail, led by Dr Poonam Madar, delivered an in person workshop for the public at Ealing Central Library, ‘Engaging the senses using Nature.’ 

• 14th July 2022: Kings’ College London Faculty of Adult Nursing, online writing workshop on the theme of transitions for Faculty and department staff

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• May 2022: The Ealing Write Trail,led by Dr Poonam Madar, commissioned to design and facilitate and online workshop for the public online Nature inspired writing workshop

• 10th December 2021:HEE East of England Foundation School  three hour online Writing for wellbeing & Personal Development workshop for Foundation Year 1 and Foundation Year 2 medical trainees, as part of the Hub educational programme provided by the School, on the theme of “Celebrating who we are, as individuals and professionals”

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• 19th May 2021: Writing for Wellbeing workshop for Staff Wellbeing Week, The Royal Marsden Hospital

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• 13th May 2021: NHS Bromley and Greenwich GP VTS Hub,  workshop for 11 International GP trainees on the principles and applications of reflective practice and reflective writing

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• 20th April 2021:  Guys & St Thomas's GP VTS scheme Writing for Wellbeing workshop on Diversity and health inequalities- related issues, on the GP Training Scheme 'away day', for 65 GP trainees and their Programme Leads.

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• 18th March 2021: Creative Writing Workshop for GP practice staff, Bromley;commissioned via Daniel Regan, Arts and Health Hub www.artsandhealthhub.org.uk

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• November 2020: East of Sussex GP VTS online writing for Wellbeing & Personal Development workshop for 50 GP trainees, on the theme of Isolation: professional and personal isolation, community and connection

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• July 2019: First workshop for the public, Writing in Nature, Keats House Museum and gardens, London with 16 members of the public, as part of the Bluestocking Society events at Keats House, pro bono

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• April 2017 and June 2019: Writing activities with Enfield Women’s Mental Health drop- in community group, as a volunteer, using poetry and objects as a stimulus for writing; I created a simple anthology of the group's writing for the participants to keep.

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• September 2016: Volunteer with the Ponders End Community Development Trust and helped at the Health awareness Day, Enfield, London

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• 2017: Volunteer on the ‘Forgotten Untold History of Ponders End’ project, London Borough of Enfield; trained in oral history skills, research and archiving as well as public engagement skills at London Metropolitan Archives UK; interviewed  two local older members of the area

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• 2005 :MA Creative Writing & Personal Development, University of Sussex, dissertation project: 3 week writing workshops for inpatient on chronic pain management programme, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK

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