Workshops

My method of teaching addresses all levels of experience and wide ranges of professional backgrounds, and each workshop is adapted to the particular objectives of the group with whom I work – from three-year-old children to thesis writers and researchers – on how to bring creative practices to thesis and technical writing as a mode of inquiry.

In all my workshops I invite play – play is the place where originality and creativity begin.

And stuff gets people playing!

Working with assorted, carefully collected objects, I am essentially a bag lady, in that I never go teaching empty handed. My biggest problems teaching internationally are my objects – getting through customs with so many things that must be explained. Sometimes I show customs officers  how I use them…

Workshops I have taught include:

• Winning with Words — for trial lawyers on how to reach a jury more effectively

• Poets & PhDs & Tech Writers — exploring parallels between thesis writing and poetry
• Beyond Academia — the use of creative practices from other disciplines to find new dimensions, to use as a mode of inquiry, to enliven writing in order to reach wider audiences
• Writing to Reflect — for healthcare and other service providers on how to use writing as reflection
• From Memos to Monologues — clear and concise business writing – in notes, proposals, presentations, and reports
• Interaction — to facilitate better communication in the workplace, generate new approaches to work, reduce hierarchy through the shared challenge of creative expression
• Teaching Teachers — how to teach writing and thinking skills
• Keys to Writing — how to make image and use the arc of story
• Selling Your Self — the art of listening, never taking no, and winning people over
• Inside and Out — how to explore personal issues and examine one’s inside world through writing
• Writing Together — a shared experience in risk taking for families, parents and kids, and siblings of all ages