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	<title>Transformative Language Arts Network &#187; Health</title>
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	<description>Transformation, Liberation &#38; Celebration Through the Spoken, Written &#38; Sung Word</description>
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		<title>Revived by Meeting You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLA Member Sherry Reiter shares this reflection on her recent travel and work in South Korea:
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&#8220;My life was revived by meeting you and
inspired to send out a joyful fragrance&#8221;

	
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These words from Korean poet Lee Hae-In are still reverberating for me. I have just returned from South Korea, where John Fox, myself and nine other speakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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The 2010 Quandaries in Health Care Conference (hosted by the University of Colorado as Aspen&#39;s Center for Bioethics and Humanities) is titled &#34;A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience,&#8221; and it seems like it may very well be of interest to TLA folk. &#160;It happens&#160;Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010 in Aspen, &#160;so if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of the Most Powerful Pieces of Writing About Parenting, and Living with Courage &amp; Heart: &#8220;Finding Your Voice&#8221; Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to recommend Jennifer Lawler&#39;s great blog, Particularly amazing is her essay, &#34;For Jessica,&#34; which is simply the most powerful thing I&#39;ve ever read about being a parent, loving another person, cultivating courage in the face of the impossible, and what love is truly about.
For Jessica
July 19th, 2010 
A couple of weeks ago, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Therapy International</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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 &#34;Conference on Humanities Therapy,&#34; sponsored by Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do province, South Korea.&#160;
The conference organizers there are affiliated with&#160;The Humanities Therapy Research Institute, which &#34;aims to study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Arts Therapies Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just finished national national Creative Arts Therapy Week, it seems like it might be well worth while to remind folks of the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations (NCCATA), which has some great resources regarding upcoming conferences, professional associations, and some occasional job and grant postings.
It was there that I found out about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Posting &#8211; National Association for Poetry Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sherry Reiter we receive this, of possible interest for TLAN folk:
Now Taking Applcations: Part-time Manager/Administrator for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR POETRY THERAPY (NAPT)
This position requires a minimum of three years business experience in managing/operating a small business or nonprofit organization. &#160;This person should be flexible, open to learning new aspects of a business, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-TLA</title>
		<link>http://www.tlanetwork.org/2009/04/moving-toward-authenticity-connecting-with-self-others-and-nature-through-transformative-language-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Moving Toward Authenticity: Connecting with Self, Others, and Nature Through Transformative Language Arts
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Within and around the earth, Within and around the hills, Within and around the mountains, Your authority returns to you.
&#8211;A Tewa Pueblo Prayer
The poem, above, has great significance, for it is in the context of the earth, hills, and mountains&#8211;indeed, the landscapes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>StoryCorps &amp; TLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caryn</dc:creator>
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StoryCorps, TLA and the Power of Healing Stories
Barbara Esrig tells the story of surviving a car accident that nearly took her life and finding meaning through the power of words &#8212; and her story is now featured on the StoryCorps site. Barbara is writer-in-residence in the Shands Arts-in-Medicine program in Gainesville, FL. where she does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Ourselves Home</title>
		<link>http://www.tlanetwork.org/2008/12/writing-ourselves-home-while-living-with-cancer-by-kirsten-andersen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Writing Ourselves Home While Living with Cancer: Kirsten Andersen
The Callanish Society is a small, grassroots non-profit organization based in Vancouver, Canada.  Dedicated to improving the emotional and spiritual health of its community, Callanish assists those with an experience of cancer in their lives to explore illness and/or death openly and consciously.
Week-long retreats and ongoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor, Heal Thyself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctor, Heal Thyself
Along with the reminders for doctor appointments, meetings, and family events I&#8217;ve begun placing special stickers on my family calendar. These stickers are reminders to spend some time taking care of myself. It could be as simple as sitting quietly with a cup of tea, reading a book I really love, or, if [...]]]></description>
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