NAMW January Member Teleseminar
Kathleen (Kay) Adams
January 26, 2018
11 AM PST | 12pm MST | 1pm CST | 2pm EST
Happy 2018 to you all! I look forward to a creative year at NAMW, and I hope you are enjoying the development of your projects as the year begins.
For our first membership teleseminar, I’m very pleased to welcome back my friend and colleague Kathleen Adams to start the year. Kay has presented for us many times and offers us special moments where we can be with our writing and our thoughts during the presentation. That is so special, that I wanted to begin the year where we are writing and exploring together.
From Kay: The year 2017 will be remembered for many things, one of which is the way that so many people broke so much silence about topics heretofore taboo. In particular, the #MeToo movement brought sexual wrongdoings–everything from obnoxious greedy frat boys, to dominance through intimidation and fear, to perpetrators of sexual assault–into the foreground. Journalists of both genders have told stories of women and sometimes men who have been assaulted in word or deed, whose life experiences have been documented and shared. This uprising of truth and open sharing emboldened more and more people to break their own silences and tell their own stories.
In this conversation and mini-workshop, we’ll look at what we are willing to write and what we keep unwritten. With particular care and respect for your truths that are not yet word-ripe, during this workshop we will help you to unpack one point of your silence in search of the gift that is contained within the wound, setting the stage for further exploration in your journals and memoirs.
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify two or more ways to hold your secrets or traumatic material
- Practice regulation of emotional intensity to keep ourselves safe as we explore
- Understand the famous Pennebaker “Flip-Out Rule”
- Practice breaking silence in writing
- Learn two or more journal writing techniques that support the safe breaking of silence
- Begin crafting a scene that involves breaking your silence
Kathleen Adams LPC, PTR is a psychotherapist and poetry/journal therapist in Denver, Colorado. Since 1985 she has pioneered the field of journal therapy. Kay is the founder/director of the Center for Journal Therapy and its professional training academy, the fully on-line Therapeutic Writing Institute, as well as its membership community, the Journalverse.
Love this. Can’t wait!
This is what I need to write my hidden problems. I was always saying, “Should I or Should I Not?” I hope to find answers in this workshop.
Perfect timing to start the new year! Just waiting for the call-in info.
Hi Paula,
We will send out the call info to all members the week of the event.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
Very excited about this teleseminar with Kay Adams.
Erika, I still haven’t received the call in info for the teleseminar tomorriw. Pls send asap. Thanks, Paula
Hi Paula,
We just sent the information out again to all members this morning. Please let me know if you have not received it.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
I’m a member but also do not understand how to access this teleseminar.
It is not in my spam folder. I’d really like to participate in this. This is not the first time I’ve had difficulty connecting with NAMW, perhaps there is something amiss with my account? Thank you.
Hi Valorie,
I just sent it to you again. Please check.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
I don’t believe I ‘ve received call in information. It is now the night before the seminar.
Hi Valorie,
We sent the access info out to all members a few days ago as well as this morning. If you are not seeing it, please check your Spam and Promotions folders as it sometimes lands there. It will be coming from customersupport@namw.org.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
If I can’t make it live, will it be available on a replay?
Hi Christina,
All members will receive the recording of this event after it occurs.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
Sounds wonderful. Where do we sign up?
Hi Donna,
This event is our monthly member teleseminar. If you are not a member yet, you can learn about the many benefits of NAMW membership here: https://namw.org/become-a-member/namw-benefits-2/
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
I would love to attend this workshop . I am a NAMW member too
Sushma Lata
And, how long is this seminar? I want to pencil it on my calendar .
Thanks!
Sushma
703 609 3669
Hi Sushma,
It will last one hour.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
I am looking forward to this class!
I want to sign up!
Hi Lily,
As a member, you will automatically receive the call information the week of the event. Keep an eye out for it in your email!
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
Hi Lily,
You will automatically receive the information via email since you are a member. Be on the lookout the week of the event!
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
I am trying to log into my account but it will not send me the link for forgot password. Please help!
Looking forward to the session – I need to structured support now and this could be the answer!
I just joined NAMW tonight (1/25). I want to participate in the Breaking Silence mini-seminar tomorrow- how do I get a call in number??
THANKS.
Hi Vici,
Welcome to NAMW!
You should have received an email this morning with the call information for today’s telseminar. If you don’t see it, please check your Spam and Promotions folders. It will be coming from customersupport@namw.org.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
In her presentation, Kay read a quote about memory and the significance of what we remember and what we forget. It was wonderful, but I missed the name of the book. Can you please send me that information. The author, too, would be nice to know. Thank you.
Hi Frances,
Sorry about the delayed response! Kay has provided the information you requested below.
The quote and source is as follows. I particularly appreciate the author’s candid, clear voice on managing the ethics of writing about actual people, e.g. family members, particularly when the story could potentially embarrass or “out” or otherwise shame/anger another. Here’s the quote:
How we remember, what we forget, what preoccupies us, which memories we avoid, which ones we obsessively retell – all of this can be the stuff of memoir writing. In other words, memory itself, in all its richness and in its deceptiveness (including what we don’t remember) …is an important resource for telling the story.
–Jane Taylor McDonnell, Living to Tell the Tale
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
Hi Vici,
Is there a replay of the Jan 26 teleseminar? I wasn’t able to attend.
Thank you,
Evelyn
Hi Evelyn,
The replay went out yesterday. Please check your email in Promotions and Spam if you haven’t seen it come in yet. It would have come from customersupport@namw.org.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW