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Transforming World With Word: Transformative Language Arts
TLA is an emerging field, profession and calling focused on community building, culture shift, health and healing, liberation and celebration through the spoken, written, and sung word.
Category Archives: Writing
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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Check Out “A Wing and a Page”
For more on the writing life, visit A Wing and a Page, a blog put out by a group of writers in Lawrence, Kansas, including novelist Lucia Orth, free-lance writer Susan Kraus, travel writer Beth Reiber, poets and writers Denise … Continue reading
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Mary Oliver-isms
Thanks to Caryn Miriam-Goldberg who offers us this piece from her own blog. A few weeks ago, I had the joy of hearing Mary Oliver read, talk about poetry and life, and simply just visit with some of us. I … Continue reading
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Kairos and Narrative Facilitation
We're always looking to find innovative and gripping examples of TLA in action, and Stephanie Sandmeyer in Portland, OR is doing exactly that. Working with families to create audio snapshots and oral histories, Stephanie works to make sure wisdom isn't … Continue reading
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Cascadia Arts and Healing Center
We recently heard from Brian Moore, who shared about the Cascadia Arts and Healing Center which he is developing to explore the connections between the expressive arts and deep ecology. Brian also facilitates Poetic Pathways and Journal to Wholeness at the … Continue reading
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