(NWI) Healing Power of Story

The hardest times in life can make you “voiceless,” but also offer the greatest opportunity for stories. At these times the invitation to “tell me your story” can be a critical encouragement in the healing process.

As caregivers, teachers, counselors, parents, nurses, doctors, and patients, we will look at our own stories and those of others to practice strength and healing. Through writing, we will explore the uses of journals, fiction, essays, and poetry in the telling and receiving of stories.

This course is part of the Documentary Studies Certificate Program.

Date: Saturday-Sunday, May 19-20, 2012

Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Location: Lewis & Clark Graduate Campus, Conference Center Room 101

Instructor: Joanne Mulcahy, Ph.D.

Degree-applicable credit: WCM 548, 1 semester hour, $773

Continuing education credit: CELA 848, 1 semester hour, $350

Noncredit/CEU: 15 hours, $250

This class is currently full. Please contact CCE at 503-768-6040 to be placed on the waitlist, or register for the July 14-15 session. 

About the Instructor

Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches creative nonfiction, ethnographic writing and humanities CORE classes at the NW Writing Institute. Her academic credentials include degrees in Comparative Literature, Folklore and Folklife, and Cultural Anthropology. Mulcahy has taught workshops that combine creative nonfiction and ethnographic writing for the Association of Western States Folklorists, the New York Folklore Society, and the American Folklore Society. For over a decade, she taught courses in anthropology and gender studies in Lewis and Clark’s College of Arts and Sciences.

In addition, she has facilitated workshops in numerous other settings, including The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, Oregon public libraries, The Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, N. Ireland, and Alaska and Oregon Corrections facilities. She is an Associate of the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking and adjunct faculty for the Ph.D. program of The Union Institute.

Mulcahy’s essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her awards include fellowships from The Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, the New Letters nonfiction prize, and grants from The British Council, the Alaska Humanities Forum, and the Oregon Council for the Humanities.

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