Calligraphy, Mental Health, Wellbeing Laura Edralin Calligraphy, Mental Health, Wellbeing Laura Edralin

How to reduce overwhelm with calligraphy

Overwhelm can creep up on you. And often we’re spinning in it by the end of the day / week. When we’re overwhelmed, we’re often doing things that aren’t actually helping reduce the overwhelm. So what can we do? I list a few ways to help ease overwhelm and share even more in my free calming calligraphy workbook to dip-into and de-stress whenever you need it.

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Calligraphy, Create Mindset, Creativity Laura Edralin Calligraphy, Create Mindset, Creativity Laura Edralin

The difference between calligraphy and handwriting

One of the most common disclaimers I get when people join one of my workshops or course… “My handwriting is awful”, “I’m not going to be very good and I have bad handwriting”. Sound familiar?

Well, I’m here to dispel a few myths! The first being the key differences between calligraphy and handwriting – and why they are two separate (but wonderful) beasts.

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Calligraphy, Workplace Wellbeing Laura Edralin Calligraphy, Workplace Wellbeing Laura Edralin

How to improve your employees’ focus and flow at work

What if employees could take back autonomy over their mindsets? Reframing stressful project deadlines, adapting more positive cultures at work, allowing and progressing in their role with more focus, and flow. In this article I’ll be taking you through the steps to invite more creative and sensorial ways to improve the very thing businesses need to help their employees’ thrive…

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Calligraphy, Workplace Wellbeing Laura Edralin Calligraphy, Workplace Wellbeing Laura Edralin

Five Ways to Boost Creative Thinking in the Workplace

Creativity offers us much more than expression, emotional release and artwork to hang on the wall or fill a notebook with.

When you work with both, the expressive form and the mindset work, we unlock a huge amount of untapped potential – on an individual level, which can ripple out to a team level and into the organisation as a whole.

Here’s how…

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Calligraphy, Mindfulness, Create Mindset, Psychology Laura Edralin Calligraphy, Mindfulness, Create Mindset, Psychology Laura Edralin

The Mindful Psychology of Calligraphy

Following on from part one, we now look at flow state, consistency and vulnerability and three further life lessons calligraphy teaches us. From the mindful psychology of calligraphic practise, to simple tips and tricks to keep us your practise, read on to get your calligraphy journey underway.

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Calligraphy, Psychology, Create Mindset, Creativity Laura Edralin Calligraphy, Psychology, Create Mindset, Creativity Laura Edralin

How calligraphy teaches us more than beautiful writing

The beautiful art of modern brush script allows us to create lovely writing for all sorts of occasions and projects, and I discovered the therapeutic benefits of calligraphy several years ago. But there’s more. From the mindful psychology of calligraphic techniques, to simple mindset tools that correlate between the creative process and our lived experience.

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10 Valentine's Day Calligraphy Card Phrases and Ideas

A romantic gesture isn’t just for valentine’s day and it doesn’t have to be SUPER cheesy. Making your own brush calligraphy card to share or keep can be an extra special touch - but where do you start?

I have listed my favourite brush pens to work with, and shared 10 Valentine’s phrases and designs - for all the lovers out there.

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