Writing for Wellbeing: Tides & Transformations
Reflections on the first winter session 29 June 2025
At the end of June, I hosted the first of my Writing for Wellbeing workshops at Romulus Folio Gallery, a quiet, reflective gathering titled Tides & Transformations. Set within the stillness of winter and the soft glow of the gallery, this 90-minute session invited us to explore the cycles of change in our lives through the simple but powerful act of writing.
As both artist and facilitator, I came to this space not as an expert offering answers, but as someone who knows the way writing can hold us through life’s messier transitions. I’ve leaned on creative writing as a tool of self-reflection, release, and reimagining for years, and I created this series to return to that practice and to hold space for others to do the same.
How We Meet Change
The theme of this first session was Tides and Transformations, a nod to the inner shifts we all experience: cycles of grief and growth, resistance and surrender, ending and becoming.
We wrote freely and privately, with no pressure to perform. We simply showed up for ourselves. The prompts invited us to reflect on:
the rhythms we notice in our lives,
something we deeply wish would change,
what might need to be let go of to make space,
and a time when change came, welcome or not, and how we moved through it.
One of the most moving parts of the workshop was imagining our future selves, ten years from now, writing a letter of kindness and wisdom to the versions of us sitting there in the room. It was tender. Personal. Quietly profound.
Why I’m Doing This
This was more than just a writing session. For me, it was a return.
Writing used to be the centre of my life. It shaped how I thought, how I processed, how I made decisions. Over the years, life pulled me away from that daily practice. But I’ve never stopped believing in its power.
I’ve used writing to survive transitions; to grieve, to grow, to leave things behind that needed to be left. The life I live now isn’t perfect, but it’s more mine, and writing helped me make that happen. These workshops are a way of reintroducing that practice with care, not just for myself, but for others.
Words That Stayed With Us
As the workshop ended, these quotes were offered as quiet companions to take with them in their continued journaling practice:
“Writing is medicine… It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.” - Julia Cameron
“No feeling is final.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Viktor Frankl
In a world that so often demands resolution and clarity, this session was an invitation to pause, to honour the truth of where we are, not where we should be.
Thank you to those who came with open hearts and pens ready. Your presence made the space what it was.
I’ll be continuing this series across winter, with each session following the energy of the season: honest, inward, creative, and kind.
Until then, may your tides bring clarity, and your transformations be kind.
Expressing Inner World - Writing For Wellbeing Workshop
Sunday 17 August 2025
3:00 pm 4:30 pm
ROMULUS Gallery @ The Gladstone15-85 Gladstone StreetSouth Melbourne, VIC, 3205Australia
https://www.angelinamirabito.art/events/winter-writing-for-wellbeing-workshop-ylnym