“Pick up your pencil and let’s turn lead into gold”.
Jon is a psychodynamic coach and journaling facilitator. He draws on a range of psychological models in his work, with a particular interest in Carl Jung’s ideas – as well as his emphasis on warmth, playfulness, creativity and humour.
He teaches for the Therapeutic Writing Institute and has devised journaling workshops for a wide range of populations, including teens transitioning out of the care system, older women caregivers and inmates of His Majesty’s Prisons. His poetry has been widely published and he is a contributor to Writing for Wellbeing: Theory, Research, and Practice (Routledge 2023).