This workshop is designed for 8-12 early career writers and scholars who answer yes to the following questions:

• Do you want to start the year with positive & creative energy around your writing projects?

• Do you need inertia to get that thesis, dissertation, or article out for review?

• Do you crave a moment to pause and reflect on next whole-hearted career steps?

In this workshop we will:

• Explore your writing and career questions through two 1:1 writing and career coaching sessions with Dr. Janeta Tansey (MD, Loyala University; PhD, University of Iowa) and Dr. Elizabeth S. Parks (PhD, University of Washington).

• Gain clarity for a pressing writing and career question or pinch-point through two small group clearness committee sessions.

• Co-create a supportive writing community to meet your writing goals.

Registration Fees:

• $600: Workshop Registration, with access to shared writing spaces, two meals and snacks. Find your own housing (Mixed dorm room reservations may be available at Inn the Clouds Hostel and Inn for ~$45/night).

• $850: Workshop Registration, with access to shared writing spaces, two meals and snacks. Reserve a double occupancy room (2 queen beds). Register with a buddy to lower costs by sharing a room!

• $1,100: Workshop Registration, with access to shared writing spaces, two meals and snacks. Reserve a single occupancy room (1 king bed).

Have questions? Contact us for more information here.

Registration deadline: April 1, 2025

Ready to register? Please fill out a brief application form here.

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Listening and Communication

• 10 habits of spacious listeners

• Active listening skills

• Communication across cultural difference

• Ethical listening

• Listening across racial divides

• Listening and intergenerational dialogue in face-to-face contexts and digital platforms

• Listening as invitation to dialogue

• Dialogue among diverse community voices in community projects

workplace culture and collaboration

• Ableism and access in the workplace

• Bimodal multilingual education: Recognizing the linguistic resources of a diverse deaf world

• Building effective listening cultures in higher education

• Creating space for sustainable collaboration

• ‘Model minorities’ and a privileged professionalism

• Scholar collaborations in long distance and in-person research teams

• Self-care advice for the nonprofessional caregiver

• Success for ADHD professionals in higher education

identity and ethical engagement

• Communication ethics and disability

• Deaf cultures and American Sign Language in international engagement

• Disability, diversity and difference: Listening to what we say and saying what we mean

• Perpetuating gender inequality through listening expectations and relational roles

• Racial hybridity: When is enough, enough?

• Sustaining a radical listening ethic through liminal times

Resilience for Health Care Professionals Mini-Bootcamp

For all Health Care Providers: To meet needs in our current public health crisis, a 2.5-day Resilience Bootcamp has been pared down to SIX tightly-focused 90-minute modules, offered over six weeks so that health care providers and leadership can stop, breathe, and take care of themselves. This course is first aid in the form of Resilience Training for all of us who are directly involved in health care – AND to any who are working hard behind the scenes caring for us in our missions.

In partnership with Virtue Medicine, this Mini-Bootcamp helps each of us quickly understand and immediately practice what is critical to building RESILIENCE in this time, for both survival and healing. As we put it into practice for ourselves, we can efficiently help our teams and patients do the same in the way we talk, listen, and map out our meaningful paths in each moment, even in suffering. Cost: $375/person. To register click here.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, access and Social Justice (IDEAS) Workshops

Through synchronous online or in-person workshops, I can facilitate workshops with your teams and organizations to discuss inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and social justice (IDEAS) in general or with specific focus related to:

• Culture and Identity

• Race and Ethnicity

• Disability and Access

• Gender and Sexuality

• Intersectionality and Hybridity

• Deaf Culture and Signed Languages

• Communication Ethics

I’m happy to set up a call to discuss what may work best with your needs, context and budget.