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    Writing for Wellness in Community Settings: How to Facilitate a Writing for Wellness Class
    Writing for Wellness in Community Settings: How to Facilitate a Writing for Wellness Class
    Writing for Wellness in Community Settings: How to Facilitate a Writing for Wellness Class
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    Writing for Wellness in Community Settings: How to Facilitate a Writing for Wellness Class

    By Kathy Vayder and Sandy Gonzales

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    This easy-to-follow guide is designed to assist community services professionals, teachers, and other volunteers as they establish and lead Writing for Wellness classes in community settings.

    Writing for Wellness classes provide community, caring, and sharing for people with emotional and physical health issues, their loved ones, and their caretakers. Participants in the classes learn writing techniques to help them relieve grief, learn to forgive, address anger and frustrations, and examine their spiritual lives.

    Participants focus on specific themes. Anger, frustration, and fear are expressed in prose and poetry. There will also be laughter, healing tears, and new understandings about life.

    The class leader will need to have a copy of the Writing for Wellness book. Each topic in that book provides Healing Words from more than 60 participants who were in Julie Davey’s original classes. These are followed by prompts so members of the group can express their own feelings in the It’s Your Turn section. Suggestions for leading a series of classes give program support so that volunteers unfamiliar with Writing for Wellness will succeed from their first class.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIdyll Arbor
    Release dateMar 30, 2017
    ISBN9781611580600
    Writing for Wellness in Community Settings: How to Facilitate a Writing for Wellness Class
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    Kathy Vayder

    In 2008, Kathy Vayder met with Julie Davey to create a class for Christian church settings by adding a spiritual theme to the course. The course has been taught at Cornerstone Fellowship in Livermore, California, since March 2009. Writing for Wellness in Christian Settings is an outgrowth of Kathy's class to help others start Writing for Wellness classes in their churches.

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      Book preview

      Writing for Wellness in Community Settings - Kathy Vayder

      Writing for Wellness

      in Community Settings

      How to Facilitate a

      Writing for Wellness Class

      Sandy Gonzales

      Kathy Vayder

      A Leader's Guide for Groups Using

      Writing for Wellness: A Prescription for Healing

      By Julie Davey

      Idyll Arbor, Inc.

      39129 264th Ave SE

      Enumclaw, WA 98022

      (360) 825-7797

      © Copyright 2017, Idyll Arbor, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. This book and any information in it may be reproduced for use in Writing for Wellness classes. For other purposes, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Cover: Thomas M. Blaschko

      Writing for Wellness book cover: Vincent Williams

      ISBN: 978-1-61158-060-0

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      Contact information:

      Idyll Arbor

      39129 264th Ave SE

      Enumclaw, WA 98022

      360-825-7797

      Julie Davey

      JDavey@fullcoll.edu

      Contents

      OVERVIEW

      Beginnings of Writing for Wellness

      About The Book

      WRITING FOR WELLNESS

      What Happens in Class

      Where to Begin

      Basic Considerations

      Running a Class

      Step-by-Step Procedures

      CLASS SESSIONS

      Appendix A — Class Syllabus

      Appendix B — Class Syllabus

      CLASS FEEDBACK

      Endorsements

      For more information

      OVERVIEW

      Many people struggling with serious illness or emotional trauma feel broken-hearted, confused, frustrated, angry, unforgiving, alone. They need a way to express what they are experiencing as they try to make sense of a loss of health, financial worries, relationship problems, or sometimes a combination of such crises. Many are looking for a kindred community, hoping to find someone who can understand their pain as they work through their situation.

      Often the necessary help can be

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