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Workshops and Classes
Talking Pictures
Where: Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
480.730.0205
When: Saturday, June 14, 2008
1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Fee: $30.00
Terry Ratner, RN, MFA, presents Talking Pictures, a unique writing workshop which explores who we are through words and images. It's an art of remembering in an age of forgetting. So dig out your favorite pictures, black and white, sepia toned, or color, and join Terry for an informal gathering where you can share ideas about memories, photos, and how to put the two together in prose and poetry.
Past Events and Workshops
Writing About Loss
March 3, 2008 - April 21, 2008
Recommended text (optional) is as follows:
Title: The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Author: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Edition: 2000
ISBN: 0374528586
The Art of Storytelling: Nursing Narratives
Career Fair, Phoenix, Arizona
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Location: Glendale Civic Center
5750 West Glenn Drive, Glendale, AZ 85301
Nursing Narratives, a powerful tool, is a way to process our encounters and emotional reactions to human illness, health, and healing in ordinary language. Writing narratives allows nurses to share their stories, enhance their self awareness, provide a higher quality of nursing care, and to move easily amidst the uncertainty, ambiguity, and sadness they encounter. The Art of Storytelling discusses the benefits of nursing narratives and provides writing strategies necessary to capture the true essence of nursing.
Writing the Unspeakable
March 28-30, 2008
Pima Writers' Conference
Tucson, Arizona
Writing About Loss Workshop
Where: Changing Hands Bookstore (6428 S McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283, 480-730-0205)
When: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Fee: $20.00
Writing About Loss provides students an opportunity to tell their stories and transform their lives. If you've experienced the death of a loved one, a medical crisis, or a traumatic event—this is the class for you. You will learn how to identify and eliminate clichés, avoid the overuse of emotion, and explore techniques that provide readers with restrained and lucid details. Through instructor guidance, small group workshops, writing exercises, drafting, revising, analysis and class interaction, students will capture the immediacy of their loss, establish candor and intimacy with their reader, and begin to heal.
Innovative Nursing Positions
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
8PM - 10PM Eastern (ET)
http://chat.nurse.com/index_chat.html
Hospital "think tanks" are working overtime expanding their repertoire of creative jobs as a way to retain nurses. A large number of unique nursing positions are flooding the advertising markets — whisking nurses away from the bedside, but not necessarily away from the hospital. Join Terry Ratner, RN, MFA, for the Wednesday, April 16, guest chat to talk about creative jobs available in and out of medical facilities, adjustments made during the transition, and the experience gained along the way.
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reative work helps us deal with hurt and sorrow and in many ways it mimics the work of mourning. Engaging in writing after a loss permits us to pass from numbness to feeling, from denial to acceptance, from chaos to order, and from rage to profound personal growth. 
