About Let's Do Words
Facilitator
Bethan Rees
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Bio
Bethan Rees is part-time Writing for Wellbeing facilitator. She has a strong passion for creative writing, especially when applied to wellbeing and mindfulness. She grew up in Neath, South Wales and has lived in Cardiff, Pontypridd, South Dakota, Somerset, Bristol and now resides in Swindon.
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She has led writing workshops online and in person for creative writing groups, Alzheimer's patients and their carers, wellbeing workshops within the local community and for a 'wellbeing focus' in businesses.
She has always been drawn to wellbeing writing as she has suffered with mental health issues in the past. She has experienced loss and uses writing as a way of processing this, still to this day. Writing has helped her recognise and work through many different feelings and experiences. She really hopes that by doing this, she can replicate the help writing has given her for other people.
Her personal writing focuses on nature, mental health, family relationships and intertwining these with, at times, dark humour.
Publications
Heartland Women Writers - Weathering her Storm
The Bitchin' Kitsch - My Eleanor (Page 28)
Glitchwords - Shower you with stars
The Confessionalist Zine - His Thunder
Revolt Magazine - Look Around
The Daily Drunk - Animal Crossing
Fresh Air Poetry – The Mouth Where Water Meets
Domestic Cherry 7 – Sheep in Wolfs Clothing
It was a Dark and Stormy Night – ‘Dear Journal’ – $10.
Fly on the Wall Web-zine – ‘Pole Opposite’
Persephone’s Daughters – ‘River Relative’
Domestic Cherry 6 – ‘A Bucket of Hearts’, ‘Part One in a Series of Letters Addressed to my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Granddaughter At Age Eighteen’ – £12.95
Atrium Poetry – ‘Fire and Bees’
I am not a silent poet – ‘When poetry is beautiful’
Please Hear What I’m Not Saying – Fly On The Wall Publishing – MIND Charity Anthology. – ‘Dogs’ – £9.99 with donation to MIND included.
Amaryllis Poetry – ‘In Response to Everything’
Three Drops Press – Midwinter Special Online and in Print (Page 40) – ‘Sin Eater’
Lonesome October Lit – ‘Distance’
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Qualifications
BA (Hons) English with Drama
MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (Ongoing - Final year)
Train the Trainer
Introduction to Counselling Skills
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