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The AWA Workshop Leadership Training is a five-day intensive course in the AWA method. This training will prepare you to lead writing workshops for the general population and for traditionally silenced people in places such as public housing, shelters, hospitals or prisons.

The AWA Workshop Leadership Training is a five-day intensive course in the AWA method. The guidelines and practices that shape AWA writing workshops are quite specific, and the leader’s in-depth understanding of them is vitally important to the effectiveness of the group. This training will prepare you to lead workshops for the general population and for traditionally silenced people in places such as public housing, shelters, hospitals or prisons. In addition to the specific AWA practices, skills that will be taught include:

• Creating and maintaining a safe and hospitable writing environment.
• Choosing effective writing exercises and prompts.
• Being a clear, supportive leader.
• Running workshops as a business.
• Understanding the transformative power of the method.
• Structuring the writing workshop to accommodate the needs of diverse people.
• Understanding essential differences between writing for healing and therapy.
• Inviting experimentation and growth in participants’ writing.

AWA Workshop Leadership is taught through writing sessions, talks by experienced leaders, group discussion, role playing, film, and guest speakers, giving participants a full experience of the AWA method in action. Upon completion of the training, participants will have a thorough understanding of the AWA method, our practices and guidelines, and will be able to convey them effectively to their workshop members.

For further information about the trainings and an application, please go to the AWA site or leave a comment in the box below.

When:
September 15th, 2011 9:00 AM through September 19th, 2011 2:00 PM
Location: Roches Point, ON, Canada

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Poetry Manuscript Review

The poet provides a printed copy of the manuscript.
(If a manuscript is sent in a digital format, an extra fee of $30.00 will be charged for Inkslingers to print it.)

Within 30 days:

• James reviews and makes comments/suggestions on the printed manuscript, including line edits and recommended changes (if needed) for each poem.



The focus of his review concentrates on answering these questions:

1. How effective are the poems as individual works of art?

2. Do the line breaks, imagery and other poetic elements combine to create delight and surprise?

3. Are the poems in the order that best expresses the themes and objectives of the book?

4. How close to publication is the manuscript?




• James conducts a follow-up 60 minute discussion (either by telephone or in person) to celebrate the strengths with the poet, answer any questions and discuss his review in detail.

The Cost is $375.00 (+ HST) for the first 25 pages.

A fee of $12.00/page is applied starting at page 26 to a maximum of 64 pages.

The industry definition of a MANUSCRIPT PAGE: 12 point type, 1 inch margins all around, one side of the page, double spaced.

If you have any questions please contact us.

ASK US ABOUT CUSTOMIZING TO FIT YOUR NEEDS:

If you would like support for the completion of your manuscript and you need an alternative approach, please contact us with the details. We would be happy to work with you to customize the best solution.

September 24th, 2011 – Full Day Workshop

Registration at bottom of this page. Please scroll down.

CLICK HERE for location of the workshop.

Time: 10:00a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Place: Trent University,
……….Oshawa Campus
Cost: $110.00
……….(95.00 for WCDR members
……….and associated
……….organizations) plus HST

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If you have a WordPress-based Website (or you’re planning on having one built for you) and you’d like to manage it yourself, this is the workshop that will embed the skills you need to take this important and money-saving step.

Perhaps you currently have a free WordPress blog and you need to upgrade to a site that does not limit your capacity to sell your products or promote yourself as a commercial entity.

Maybe you just want to save the maintenance costs.

Maybe it’s as simple as wanting to be able to update your website whenever you want, or the excitement of developing your skills to the point of true web independence.

This workshop will give you WordPress autonomy and teach you a number of basic as well as more advanced skills on a WordPress-based website.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to:

• create and update pages and posts 24/7
• add pictures, video and audio files
• reposition text and pictures into different arrangements
• generate interactive discussions on site
• create “ads” (from simple text to embedded videos) that stay visible on every page
• install a subscription service to notify clients/friends every time an update is made
• learn how to optimize your site for search engines by yourself
• monitor which pages are being viewed the most, how people are finding the site, and more

 
Please note these prerequisites:

Participants must bring a laptop with wireless capability. We have arranged for Trent University to supply participants with guest wireless access during the workshop, but computers will not be provided.

(Note: If you do not have an existing WordPress website, or websites are completely foreign to you, we offer a workshop just for you. Our last workshop was on March 19th in the same location:

“Create Your First Website in One Day: WordPress for Beginners.”If you would like to be placed on our email list we will notify you of the next one, likely in the early fall, 2011.)
 
 

Instructors:

James Dewar and Sue Reynolds have been building WordPress websites since 2006 – everything from small sites with only a few pages to massive sites that manage client databases, multiple ongoing discussion forums and other sophisticated applications.

They believe in the “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” philosophy when it comes to managing client websites – empower clients to manage their own content.

Of course James and Sue will stay in the background like pleased parents ready to provide support if there are questions.
 
 
To Register:

These workshops have traditionally sold out; we regret that we cannot guarantee your place until your payment has been received. If you do not use Paypal, please contact us and arrange another way to pay for this course.

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