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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: Health
A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience
The 2010 Quandaries in Health Care Conference (hosted by the University of Colorado as Aspen's Center for Bioethics and Humanities) is titled "A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience,” and it seems like it may very well … Continue reading
One of the Most Powerful Pieces of Writing About Parenting, and Living with Courage & Heart: “Finding Your Voice” Blog
Just wanted to recommend Jennifer Lawler's great blog, Particularly amazing is her essay, "For Jessica," which is simply the most powerful thing I've ever read about being a parent, loving another person, cultivating courage in the face of the impossible, … Continue reading
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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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Creative Arts Therapies Week
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 … Continue reading
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Job Posting – National Association for Poetry Therapy
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 … Continue reading