When young writers use their words to reframe a negative experience, they may find themselves better able to process it, learn from it, shape positive solutions, and move beyond it. Inviting kids to use their journals to work through and reframe experiences that cause them anxiety, grief, or pain is important work. As I began [...]
Category Archives: Courage
Using Our Words to Serve Ourselves
November 15, 2011 – 8:04 am
One of the best ways that we can use our words to make a difference is to begin by using them in service to ourselves. On Saturday, some of the writers that I was working with began a bit of guided imagery work relevant to past and current experiences, focusing specifically on those that may [...]
Writers that “Make a Difference”
November 13, 2011 – 9:28 pm
We believe that all people are born writers and that the act of writing enables us to communicate our needs, raise our voices, connect and learn from others, and heal our lives as well as the world. –An excerpt of the WNY Young Writers’ Studio vision The majority of Studio writers have now sustained their [...]
Learning from Young Writers
November 8, 2011 – 6:41 pm
Six year old Luke Toney entered the WNY Young Writers’ Studio as a self-proclaimed resistant writer. His proclamations were always very polite, but still? He really didn’t like to write. So much so that he visibly stiffened each time I invited him to put pen to paper. In the early days, the moment we began [...]
Celebrating and Learning from Writers in Progress
June 16, 2011 – 2:45 pm
Last Saturday, sixty young writers, teachers, administrators, parents and friends of the WNY Young Writers’ Studio gathered at the Kenan Center in Lockport, New York to celebrate a year of learning together. I love this event more than any other that brings us together for one simple reason: it exemplifies all that can be learned [...]
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