Festival 2026

Keeping Their Stories Alive – a Journalling Workshop

Organised by the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice

Wednesday 4 November 2026, 10 am – 12 noon

The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, 20 Dumbreck Road, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, G41 5BW

This activity is open to the public. Please register in advance.

This workshop session will introduce people to the benefits of journalling as a way to remember the person they are grieving for, and to reflect on their personal feelings of loss. 

Journalling can provide a gentle way to explore grief, honour memories, and maintain meaningful connections with absent friends. Through guided reflection and writing prompts, we are invited to remember, express, and reflect in a supportive environment.

Privately filling the pages of a notebook, which we will provide, with words, pictures and memories can be a liberating exercise.  The notebook can be a place for people to express the thoughts and feelings they understand around grief, and the ones they don’t.  It will be a place for private memories, conversations with those we grieve, and a way of recording our unique journeys through grief.

The workshop will support people who have never journalled before, providing materials and discussion prompts. 

By attending the workshop, we want to introduce journalling as a coping strategy, help people reflect on their grief journey and memories of absent friends.

Booking is essential, via the QR code, or by at our page on Eventbrite.

This event is being supported through the generosity of a To Absent Friend Small Grant.