(NWI) Personal Voice in Professional Writing

This workshop explores the power of writing to engage diverse perspectives, ideas, and cultures at the restless boundary between personal insight and professional practice.

In our search for equity, social justice, and inclusion, collaborative writing in professional life may be the most important writing we do. As educators our own writing is our best teacher, as counselors our written reflections will give us our best advice, and as leaders our work will be improved by writing about the challenges we face.

To foster expressive clarity, the class as a writing community examines reading, collaboration, personal voice, critical thinking, and audience.

Class has filled. Please contact our office if you’d like to placed on the waiting list.

Dates: Saturday-Sunday, February 25-26

Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Location: Lewis & Clark Graduate Campus, Conference Center room 107

Instructor: Kim Stafford, Ph.D.

Degree-applicable credit: LA/ED/WCM574, 1 semester hour, $738

Continuing education credit: CEED801, 1 semester hour, $350

Noncredit/CEU: 15 hours, $250

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About the Instructor

Kim Stafford founded the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Muses Among Us. He approaches writing as a chance to set down stories we have carried into poems, essays, radio commentaries, blessings, rants, parables, and other forms of  “tikkun olam,” the healing of the world. “In our time is a great thing not yet done. It is the marriage of Woody Guthrie’s gusto and the Internet. It the composing and wide sharing of generous expression in the voices of many for the needs of all.”