Julia (Jay)
Woodman is a professional poet
working in schools and festivals in the UK and
abroad.
Poet in schools, international
performer, workshop leader, publisher,
editor, creative writing tutor, festival organizer.....
07707-200494
/ 01306-500425
46A MARLBOROUGH HILL, DORKING,
SURREY, RH4 2DD, ENGLAND
julia@radiance-solutions.co.uk
Jay has
completed a course for workers in schools
obtaining top level results (equivalent to NVQ 3)
and has worked as a Special Needs
Assistant,
a Young Person's
Consultation/Participation Officer,
and as as a
Personal Adviser and User Involvement
Officer for Young Care Leavers..
She has a
diploma in advanced counselling skills
which includes working with families and
young people.
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Books include:
Following Father" (Ure Group Press) £3.95 + 45p
p&p,
HEAR DEMOS
"Terra Affirmative" & "Riding the
Escalator"
(published as one fat book) £5.99,
"SPAN" (Prose Poems and Drawings) - £5
"Fantasmapsychosis" (sold out),
HEAR DEMOS
"TREES" (Ure Group Press) sold out,
"COUNT" (prose-poetry) Oasis Books, London
£3.50,
"In Touch With Water" (sold out),
"Blue Bridge" (sold out).
Succulent Sisters (with 2 USA & 1 Australian - sold
out)
and in 2004 these new 5 ones were published:
Spanish Poems (sold out) HEAR DEMO,
Liquid Gold (sold out) HEAR DEMO,
Spirit Journeys & Guided Dreams,
Spirit Songs (sold out),
DEMOS - Raindrop
/ Road / Shine / Praise to the
Source
and Sacred Selves (sold out),
There is one forthcoming
called MERMAID
(Written in Rhodes, 2006)
Books listed as available above can be obtained
directly from Jay - (cheques to J. Woodman please).
OR USE PAYPAL TO ORDER
fill in the total price of what you want
but please add a min of £1.50 for post and packing
She also has TAPES and CDs - £6 each.
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Jay's performances are unique and powerfully
engaging.
She performs many poems from memory.
"Talented!"
Response to readings of her new prose-poetry has
been remarkably positive.
"Rich", "Innovative",
"Assured",
Universal", "Inspired".
Her workshops are very effective whether with adults
or children, and she brings elements of drama, art,
music, and storytelling, into her work in schools.
"A generous teacher."
Jay has completed a
course for workers in schools
obtaining top level results (equivalent to NVQ 3)
She has a diploma in
advanced counselling skills
which includes working with families and young
people.
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Jay grew up in the Drakensberg mountain region of
Natal,
South Africa, apart from short spells in England and
Ireland.
She worked & studied in Cape Town,
then travelled for several years on a yacht which her
family built in their back yard.
Her book, Following Father (Ure Group Press,
still available - £3.95 plus 45p p&p),
draws on these experiences.
HEAR
DEMOS
She published & edited the poetry & art
magazine
"Rustic Rub" for many years,
& before that published & edited an
environmental mag
called "And What Of Tomorrow?"
Her work has been widely published in magazines
in the UK and abroad, including: America, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Britain, Finland, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, and South Africa. Some has been published in
translation
(Afrikaans, German, Japanese).
Jay has worked as a Poet in Schools, Libraries,
Art Centres, Theatres, Festivals, pubs, prisons,
restaurants, coffee shops, and on Radio and TV.
HEAR HER LIVE WITH THE GROUP "TONGUE
TRADE"
She has also worked with
children in educational
outdoor environments.
In spring 1996 she performed in America,
and returned there again in 1998 and again in
2004.
She also choreographed & performed in a group piece
there and improvised with musicians.
Jay founded and
organized the Yorkshire Rainbow
Festival in September 1996.
Jay tutored adult
writers in Leeds in 1997,
and worked with special needs children
(1997-Yorks) & (1998-Hants).
She then went on to
work as a Young Person's Consultation/Participation
Officer in Hants,
then as a
User Involvement Officer
and Personal Advisor
to Young People leaving care in Surrey.
In 2002 she founded the non-profit
organization
Winchester Wonders to promote creativity in the area.
She also does storytelling, talks, articles, reviews,
interviews, typesetting &
design, website design,
sings, is an artist,
and a healer, and life coach.
Jay also has long
standing experience of working
as a therapist with people of all ages
from the elderly to the very young,
and with animals.
She is
writing personal development GUIDES
for adults and young people,
and runs a variety
of WORKSHOPS
including Stress Busting, and Meditation.
Jay is also
a qualified Life Coach, Counsellor,
and Stress Consultant.
SHE IS NOW
INVOLVED WITH DRAGON STUDIOS
IN DORKING,
PLAYING THE SAX, AND WRITING SONGS
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