Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) training

In July 2006 I attended a one-week summer session at the University of California, Berkeley on “Writing as a Healing Ministry” followed by another week of Workshop Leaders Training. This latter week trained me to lead writing workshops based on Pat Schneider’a Amherst Writers & Artists Method (AWA).
I discovered AWA when I read Pat Schneider’s [...]

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Writing Workshops, Singapore

With a friend we organised two creative writing workshops, one in late 2005 and the other at the beginning of 2006. These workshops were facilitated by a visiting writer, Jane Camens. I got to know Jane through Amherst Writers and Artists. Jane hailed from Australia but at the time of first contacting her, she was [...]

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Know Yourself First | Change the World Second

I like the above motto from Loyola University Chicago. Their website: http://www.luc.edu/
Know yourself first before you try to change the world. How true, I thought. Self-awareness takes me a place where I come to terms with myself – warts and all. Strengths and weaknesses, what makes me tick, what irks me, what is it that [...]

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Pain and suffering – God’s reset button

I was reading an article by Dr. Bernie Siegel. He wrote, “… I sometimes call pain and suffering “God’s reset button”. It is sometimes the only thing that will make people change.” I thought how apt the description is of pain and suffering as God’s reset button.
You know how it is when our computer stalls [...]

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