Workshop Proposals
Deadline for Submission: February 1, 2010
Submit your proposals online by clicking here.
The Power of Words conference will be held Sept. 23–26, 2010 at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT and is seeking workshop proposals! The 8th Annual Power of Words conference brings together writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, educators, activists, healers, health professionals, community leaders, and more. All participants are united in the common exploration of how the written, spoken, and sung word can catalyze individual and communal liberation, celebration, and transformation.
We invite your proposals for experiential, didactic, and/or performance-based workshops that focus on writing, storytelling, drama, film, narrative medicine, songwriting, and other forms of Transformative Language Arts (TLA). We support proposals that focus on social change, the spoken or sung word, and how to make a living using transformative language arts in service to our communities. Because we are strongly committed to including individuals from diverse backgrounds, we encourage proposals from people of color and from presenters of many ages.
The 2010 conference features keynote speakers: Greg Greenway is a rare combination of instrumental expertise, a soulful and moving singer, powerful poet, andsparkling entertainer, drawing from gospel,
rock, blues, Jazz, and world music and especially music as a force for waking up and changing the world. 
S. Pearl Sharp is a writer, actress, filmmaker, spoken word artist and broadcast journalist whose work focuses on cultural arts, health and history. She is the author of Black Women for Beginners, four volumes of poetry, two poetry with jazz CDs, theater pieces and commentaries. She’s created many documentary and art films, including Picking Tribes and The Healing Passage/Voices from the Water. Her many film credits include starring in Gordon Park’s The Giving Tree.
- Katherine Towler (Poet, author, teacher – writes lyrical novels of family and place).
The 2010 conference will feature four thematic tracks. Particular consideration will be given to workshop proposals that forward one or more themes:
- Right Livelihood A work life that is an expression of your gifts and makes a contribution to the world.
- Social Transformation, the power of word to deepen engagement with social issues and transform self and society.
- Engaged Spirituality, writing / employing spiritual pathways challenging deeply-embedded structures of injustice to cultivate a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.
- Narrative Medicine, using the power of narrative to help patients discover their own stories of illness and create ones of healing that pull them forward toward recovery.
To submit a workshop proposal, visit the online submission form. For further information, please contact the TLAN Coordinators.
Callid & Kristina Keefe-Perry TLA Network Coordinators coordinator@tlanetwork.org 877-303-TLAN (8526)
[Please note that (a) presenters are not paid for their presentations and must register for, pay for, and attend the conference, (b) conference fees begin at $200 with reasonable room and board available, (c) a limited number of partial scholarships are also available, and (d) no individual should submit more than three proposals.]
