Fiona Goodwin M.A.  MBACP

Writing & Publications

On healing, identity & reinvention.

Across two decades Fiona has written candidly for the professional press — on emotional literacy, depth work, and her own journeys through grief and healing.

Selected Writing

In her own words.

Three published pieces — two from her years pioneering emotional-literacy work in schools, and one from a later journey into grief and healing. All are free to read.

The Guardian · 21 Sept 2004

Speak, Listen and Change the World

National coverage of the BT Schools Awards, recognizing the communication and citizenship work — including Fiona's program — that earned the BT Guardian Award.

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CCYP Journal · Summer 2005

Emotional Literacy: the key to being the best you can be

Fiona describes the “Being the best you can be” program — circle time, Socratic inquiry, and a wilderness week — created to help children move into secondary school as an emotionally literate community.

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Therapy Today · February 2015

Healing with Plant Medicine

A candid first-person account of traveling deep into the Peruvian Amazon to drink the plant medicine ayahuasca, in the hope of unlocking a lifetime of repressed grief.

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One-Woman Show

On stage,
on three continents.

A storytelling show distilled from twenty years of inner work and four decades of British comedy. Touring credits include performances in the United States, Australia, London, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — where it received five-star reviews.

Edinburgh Fringe

Five-star reviews. The Fringe run cemented the show's reputation as a tender, funny, and uncommonly honest piece of storytelling.

London

Sold-out performances at intimate venues across the city; word-of-mouth audiences from the queer, recovery, and theatre communities.

United States

Tour stops including Los Angeles, New York, Provincetown, Palm Springs, Marin, and Seattle. The show found particular resonance with audiences navigating identity, family-of-origin, and late-blooming.

Australia

Performances in Sydney and Melbourne, bringing the show to new audiences across the southern hemisphere.

A Very British Lesbian — a memoir by Fiona Goodwin

The Memoir

A Very
British Lesbian

A candid, funny, and quietly devastating account of growing up gay in the England of the post-war decades — and of finding, eventually, a way home to oneself.

The book grew out of Fiona's one-woman show of the same name. More than a memoir, it is the fullest expression of the reinvention she now helps others find — proof that voice, creativity, and joy can be reclaimed at any age.

Available in paperback and as an audiobook narrated by Fiona, on Amazon and Audible.

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Or come work with Fiona.

If you are drawn to this body of work — the writing, the storytelling, the consulting room — and want to explore depth work together, you are warmly invited to write.

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