Writing for Wellbeing: Honouring the Heart of Winter
Reflections from our second winter writing session - 20 July 2025
This past Sunday, Romulus Folio welcomed participants into the second session of our Writing for Wellbeing workshop series, a reflective offering led by artist-in-residence and Romulus founder Dr Angelina Mirabito, whose practice spans both creative writing and visual art. This session, held in the heart of winter, invited us to slow down and explore what this season teaches us about endings, stillness, and gentle beginnings.
Rooted in Angelina’s doctoral research on the therapeutic power of creative writing, these workshops create a nurturing, private space for individuals to use creative writing as a tool for self-reflection, resilience, and change.
Writing as a Way Through
At Romulus Folio, celebrate art as offering more than something you look at. It’s power to move, impact, accompany through change, and support inner reflection. As that which can be felt, embodied, and integrated into how we grow, process, and expand.
This series is built on that principle. Writing, in this context, becomes a gentle act of truth, telling, not to others, but to oneself.
This second session focused on the quiet potency of winter. Far from being barren or bleak, winter was honoured as a sacred pause: a time for release, retreat, and the planting of invisible seeds. Participants moved through a sequence of guided exercises designed to support emotional honesty, creative flow, and imaginative visioning.
Through freewriting, visualisation, and prompted reflection, the group considered:
the small joys and kindnesses present in their lives now,
what winter has revealed so far,
and how they might author the final six weeks of the season with more intention and compassion.
A highlight was a powerful visualisation and fictional writing exercise, inviting each person to meet winter’s heart to co-author a way through the season and into spring. This act of co-creating meaning through metaphor provided both grounding and liberation. It asked, what if we could shape the weeks ahead into a version of winter we’d prefer to experience?
A Quiet Collective Energy
What makes this workshop series unique is its commitment to privacy and freedom: nothing is shared. There can be the opportunity to offer voluntarily at the end of the workshop, and participants are encouraged to destroy, keep, or hide what they write. Whatever they need to feel safe enough to express themselves freely on the page. This approach creates a safe space for quiet honesty that feels both individual and shared.
The energy in the gallery was thoughtful and still, a kind of collective pause. In this gently held space, writing became a vessel for allowing everyones truth at that moment to be as it was. Safe on the page for only them to ever read and know and most importantly, no longer carried in the body. To be reminded, that we are always free to destroy what we write if we never want anyone to know what’s written. The point is, it’s important to us to release it on the page to grow beyond it.
What’s Next
We’ll continue offering Writing for Wellbeing Workshops throughout the winter season, with final winter session.
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, 3205 Australia
https://www.romulusfolio.com.au/events/expressing-inner-world
These workshops reflect Romulus Folio’s broader mission to offer not only exhibitions, but experiences that foster creative transformation.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session, and for engaging with your own inner world so openly and bravely.
Until Next Time
Honour the endings. Trust the seeds. Let winter show you what’s quietly growing.