A narrative that cannot be reconciled on a personal level is per definition a story that cannot contribute to reconciliation. Our book chapter “Writing the self for reconciliation and global citizenship: The inner dialogue and creative voices for cultural healing” by Reinekke Lengelle, Charity Jardine, and Charlene Bonnar was accepted by Springer this week. I …
Month: February 2017
Is writing the self speaking our vulnerability in order to become empowered? In reflecting on the book “A vulnerable teacher” (1974) by composition teacher Ken Macrorie (1918-2009), I realized I perceive and sense vulnerability to be something different than he does. After explaining that vulnerable comes from “vuln” the Latin word for “wound”, he writes that “To become …
Join us at “The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge” March 18th, 2017 – 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Expressive Career Writing is writing for personal development aimed at the development of a career identity to meet the challenges of the 21st century labour market. Career identity is another way of saying, ‘the story …
Career self-portrait, inspired by Agatha Christie a writing exercise to try “The name of Lucy Eyelesbarrow had already made itself felt in certain circles…” (A. Christie, 1957) In fiction we sometimes come across a character who is wildly interesting, confident, and in full possession of themselves. Something in us gets excited because secretly …
We ran day 1 of our career writing workshop last Saturday and the participants worked steadily from 10 to 5:30. They were very focused and all took active part in responding to each other’s work. They wrote to Baroque music, made collages and talked about them, and they listed 20 careers they could imagine doing …
“To write poetry a person must be interested in something in the world and allow that to resonate with something within.” I wrote these instructions for my students. It’s advice I apply to my own writing. I thought you might enjoy it too. Poetry is a dialogue with “other” and “outside” as well as with …
Frans and I have been invited to the university of Eastern Finland to speak about career writing and career learning processes and share our know-how with colleagues there. We’re delighted to be going. We met some of our Scandanavian colleagues at the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance conference in Madrid in 2016. There …
What Maggie says in Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, is just as applicable to a poorly written paper as it is to the annoying children she describes as no-neck monsters “…they’ve got no necks. None visible. Their fat little heads are stuck on their fat little bodies without a bit of …
In early 2017 a Norwegian career magazine asked for articles on career writing for their career professionals who are seeking new ways to work with students and clients. Find those articles by Reinekke here: http://veilederforum.no/content/kreativ-karriereskriving-en-narrativ-metode-som-svarer-på-endringer-i-livet and http://veilederforum.no/content/kreativ-karriereskriving-kreativ-og-reflekterende-skriving-karrierelæring These are also available in English so get in touch with Reinekke if you’re interested.
Reinekke will be giving a workshop in Canterbury to career professionals and writing enthusiasts. Who wants to come to write their own career tale? Details on this page.