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Transforming World With Word: Transformative Language Arts
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 .
Category Archives: Academics
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
The Poetry of Well Being
TLAN Member Jan Stanley is leading an effort to cull together the best poems for the support of a positive psychology. Jan recently completed her Masters of Applied Positive Psychology degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now inviting … Continue reading
Poetry Therapy International
In an exciting piece of news from the poetry therapy front, TLA Network Council Member Sherry Reiter shares that she has been invited to the 2010 "Conference on Humanities Therapy," sponsored by Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do province, … Continue reading
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Justice, Language, and Social Work
I recently came across this fascinating article by Colleen Vojak about how the language social workers use has clear impact on "helper and recepient" relationships, particularly on how marginalized folks develop their own sense of self. From the article's abstract is this key … Continue reading
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