Transforming World With Word: Transformative Language Arts
The Transformative Language Arts (TLA) Network supports individuals and organizations that promote forms of the spoken, written, and sung word as a tool for personal and communal transformation. We offer an annual conference, The Power of Words,; online classes; a global community-building project, One City One Prompt; membership and ample resources.
TLA is an emerging field, profession, and calling that acknowledges and supports the power of the spoken, written, and sung word to encourage community-building, cultural shifts, health and healing, liberation, and celebration .
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Category Archives: Health
The Healing Power of Positive Language
ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE By Jane Feinmann Producer, Metaphor For Healing When Jan Alcoe was diagnosed with a difficult-to-treat cancer three years ago, she was shocked by the frightening metaphors that doctors and nurses would use to describe the treatment she … Continue reading
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Transforming the Stories of Adolescent Girls — Suzanne Adams
Suzanne Adams, founder of Write to the Center, as well as "It's All About You" workshops for girls offered through Artreach, just had her article "Transforming the Stories of Adolescent Girls," printed in Radical Psychology (vol. 9, issue 1). Take … Continue reading
The Examined Life: Call for Submissions
There's a new journal starting, The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Here's the first call for submissions: The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of … Continue reading
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Call for Papers: Mindfulness and Creative Arts Therapies
Just received this call for papers. Please consider sending in your own! We are seeking submissions on the clinical application of mindfulness and the expressive arts for a NEW BOOK on Mindfulness and the Creative Arts Therapies. We have been … Continue reading
Revived by Meeting You
TLA Member Sherry Reiter shares this reflection on her recent travel and work in South Korea: “My life was revived by meeting you and inspired to send out a joyful fragrance” _______________________________________________________________ These words from Korean … Continue reading
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