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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: Social Change
Eco-TLA
Moving Toward Authenticity: Connecting with Self, Others, and Nature Through Transformative Language Arts Within and around the earth, Within and around the hills, Within and around the mountains, Your authority returns to you. –A Tewa Pueblo Prayer The poem, … Continue reading
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Valerie Harris Wins
Valerie Harris Wins Transformation Award from Leeway Foundation! TLA member, Valerie Harris is a recipient of the 2008 Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation. The award is given to 13 women in Philadelphia, PA and the surrounding area whose art … Continue reading
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Memorial Day
Although the study of Transformative Language Arts is still emerging and defining itself, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances have been writing down their stories in order to find peace for hundreds of years. As a result, we have hundreds of … Continue reading
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Creative Written Expressive for Children
Creative Written Expression for Children: Heather Mandell “The limons [sic] are my babys [sic]. If you hurt them, I will hunt you down and kill you.” Alex* read his surprising response out loud to the group. His rotund face raised … Continue reading
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Writing Myself Into Life — Suzanne Montz Adams
I distinctly remember in fifth grade, my teacher, Mrs. Walkow, asking our class to draw a representation of what we wanted to be when we grew up by creatively using the word for our chosen profession. I used different colored … Continue reading
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