Groups & workshops

While 1:1 work can be powerful, group events and workshops offer something unique: a sense of connection, shared growth, and collective wisdom. In a group, you realise you’re not alone. You gain multiple perspectives, build community, and experience breakthroughs through both your own work and witnessing others’. Growth happens faster, deeper, and with more support.

I facilitate group spaces where language becomes a site of reflection, integration and shared exploration. These workshops are grounded in trauma-informed, culturally sensitive and neuroinclusive practice, and are open to anyone willing to engage with writing as a tool for personal and relational insight.

Whether recurring or one-off gatherings, each space is designed to foster safety, curiosity and meaningful dialogue.

What these spaces offer

I create facilitated writing experiences centred around identity, transitions, grief, belonging, voice or narrative reconstruction.

The process includes guided prompts, individual writing time, structured reflection, and optional sharing within a clearly held, confidential container.

The outcomes include increased emotional clarity, deeper narrative coherence, expanded linguistic agency and a renewed relationship with one’s own voice.

No prior writing experience is required.

Current & Upcoming workshops

April 18
2pm – 4pm (GMT)
HUMMING HOME
A therapeutic writing workshop exploring belonging, homeland and the journey home.
(Online)
More info + registration

April 25
6pm – 8pm (GMT)
THE EARTH IN ME
A poetry therapy workshop exploring inner landscapes, the wild within and reclaiming our nature. 
(Online)
Email me to register

May 14
7pm – 9pm
THE POETRY OF BELONGING
Poetry therapy workshop part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival.
(Online)
More info + registration

May 28
5pm – 7pm
FOLLOW THE BREADCRUMBS
Poetry therapy workshop about the pull of home for Poetry Day Ireland.
(Online)
More info + registration

May 9 – June 6
7pm – 9pm
INSIGHT THROUGH IMAGERY
Discover how poetry can become a powerful tool for healing, insight, and self-expression
(Online)
More info + registration

I loved the way it was interactive and everyone was invited to participate It was all helpful I would describe it as a warm inviting experience with lots of valuable information and references. It was experiential too which gave me great joy in practicing the poetry
Emer K.Ireland
I enjoyed the method of using poetry as a prompt to write further poetry and explore emotions. It is not something I had ever thought to do, so I will definitely use that tool in the future. I also liked that the workshop was a small group, and that felt very personalised. It was a warm, non-judgmental space to explore their thoughts and feelings through journaling.
Cathy C.Saudi Arabia

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I attended a session on the theme of Belonging, proposed and led by Maria Ortega Garcia, and it was a life-changing experience. I was in my car, in the most uncomfortable conditions to listen and participate in a meeting, but I felt that I "had to" join. Maria is an extremely professional and generous facilitator who intuits "the difficult path" and gently guides you back home. So, perhaps for the first time, I was truly myself. I spoke about my trauma, my sense of non-belonging, and the relationship between my native language and English and French. Maria later shared the slides shown during the session and suggested a valuable book, Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul by Najwa Zebian, which I have already started reading. I would like to conclude by saying that the session had a transformative impact on me.
Francesca MItaly

If you are unsure about participating in a workshop and have some questions, get in touch. 

Email me at [email protected] or fill out the contact form.