What: This three-hour writing workshop, through the maxim “start fast, start fresh; continue carefully, finish surely,”© provides a well-formulated and extensively practised set of techniques by which to write anything with confidence, clarity and credibility. In this workshop, participants will first be introduced to the benefits of meditation in the writing context and receive the tools to write with a new sense of ease, enabling them to improve the efficiency, impact and clarity of their writing — a skill vital to one’s standing in the world.
If you suffer from writer’s block — what writer Himla Wolitzer poetically refers to as “laryngitis of the soul” — the workshop will equip you with tried techniques to “get writing,” with or without a visit from the muses.
If you wish to write articles, blogs, wine notes or art descriptions, aspire to a greater mastery in writing and presenting speeches, or want to dramatically shift your ability to communicate effectively, this ecologically-conceived workshop will give you the means to steer the process of communication to a credible and desirous end appropriate to the audience being addressed.
If you are planning to write a book, this holistically designed workshop will provide the tools to pin down a specific topic to win audiences from a general area of interest, find clarity on what the work offers readers, craft a table of contents and opening chapter — which is what most publishers want to see — as well as develop a clear vision of what is required to proceed to completion.
Who: The workshop will be presented by S Fuller, who holds a PhD and who worked as a journalist for nine years, mostly as a foreign correspondent for international news agency, Reuters, where clear, memorable and efficient writing combined with clarity of vision and awareness of audiences was a career requirement.
She is now a writing and book coach — helping clients take their books from their minds to the screen and page — as well as an award-winning communication coach, workshop designer and developer and freelance writer. She has been invited to give numerous writing workshops over the last 20 years, within universities, corporations and at writing retreats.
When: July 11, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Solaris Wellness Spa, 2200 West 4th Ave., Kitsilano, Vancouver.
Participation will be limited to eight and the cost will be $65.