The Power of Words

Liberation, Transformation & Celebration

Through the Spoken, Written & Sung Word

Each year the TLA Network offers a conference called "The Power of Words," in which TLA practitioners, teachers, and those interested in exploring, all gather to connect, share ideas, and explore new ways of thinking and working.

The conference allows us to explore how we can use our words — written,  spoken or sung — to make community, deepen healing, witness one another, wake ourselv es up, and foster empowerment and transformation.  This conference features experiential workshops on a wide range of the expressive language arts and right livelihood, performances, open readings, and celebrations.  It encourages participants to make community with others who share similar passions.

Every year the conference features different focus tracks, with workshops provided in a variety of areas, some of which are:

Narrative Medicine/Healing Stories: The stories we tell ourselves, and our culture tells us about how health and illness can be examined and revised to bring us greater meaning and richer lives.

Right Livelihood: Learn innovate ways to use your gifts for making a living, listening to callings, creating effective business plans, self-care, and related topics — all to be presented by experts in the field.

Social Activism: Explore how our words can transform our communities and culture.

Engaged Spirituality: Finding ways that our religious and faith traditions can expressed in ways that are more grounded in the beauty of the natural world and in the realities of the people and places to which we connect.

To learn more about the upcoming conference see Current Info.

To submit a workshop that you'd like to have considered for the conference, see the 2010 Call for Proposals.