NAMW Virtual Conference Site

Christina Baldwin

The power of story allows us to interpret experience in ways that potentially transform facts and events into meaningful insights. It is from the stories we make out of experience that we create the lives we lead and the people we are. Using her original model for identifying this pattern–The Spiral of Experience and Story–Christina will talk through the progression of story and integration and note at what points in the spiral people are most likely to write memoir, and how the point one is in the spiral influences memoir writing. The handout for this conversation is available at Christina’s website: www.storycatcher.net on the page: http://storycatcher.net/storycatcher_book.html, download the free PDF of The Spiral of Experience.

• the pattern for integrating experience into story
• when to write your memoir
• getting to healing as the heart of the process.
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Dr. Lucia Capacchione

In this teleconference Dr. Lucia Capacchione will discuss the relevance of art, collage, and non-dominant hand writing and drawing in the context of a journal for memoirists. Tapping into rich stores of memories using right-brain techniques, which she originated, Lucia shares her unique applications of the latest brain research. Opening up emotions and visual/spatial impressions through spontaneous art and writing accesses the Inner Child and all the memories, which it holds. Writing from these areas of the right brain brings words to life and connects us with deeply felt heart re-collections. This healing and integrative process also opens us up to new parts of ourselves, and talents we thought were buried. (more…)

Dr. James Pennebaker

In this virtual conference Dr. Pennebaker, world-famous psychologist who conducts research on how writing heals, will teach us how expressive writing—writing true experiences with emotional content– creates positive change and promotes the healing of trauma.

The topics Dr. Pennebaker will discuss during this teleseminar will include:

• How expressive writing has been used across a wide range of studies to inform physical and medical healing
• What techniques work better than others to heal trauma and emotional upset
• The best time to confront emotional upheaval with writing
• Using writing as a life course correction

We are very lucky to have Dr. Pennebaker with us. Join us live and write down your questions so you can ask him in person.
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Kay Adams

Anxiety is the new pandemic. Our workplaces, families, campuses and communities teem with overload and uncertainty. We’re exhausted by the demands on our personal resources. Money shrinks, conflict swells, and stress shatters our confidence and clarity.

Where can we turn?

We can turn to the page (or the computer screen). Writing thoughts and feelings in a journal is a simple, practical and surprisingly effective way to regain balance in a wobbly world. In this interactive program, a leading theorist and practitioner in therapeutic writing offers creative techniques and practical tips to cope with stress, manage emotions, and restore calm to chaos. We’ll talk about why writing works, and we’ll try some quick practice writes. You’ll leave with hands-on tools that you can put to immediate use. Come to the call prepared with writing tools: pens, notebooks, journals, or computers. An earpiece or headset is recommended for hands-free listening. (more…)

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