With insight and clarity, Barbara Turner-Vesselago distils the essentials of ‘How To Talk About Writing’ into six revolutionary discoveries. This book provides invaluable advice for all who long to respond constructively to writers who seek their input, but who don’t know how or where to begin. Seasoned writing mentors and editors will be inspired to abandon old paradigms of editorial criticism. Those new to giving feedback will find straightforward tips—easy to comprehend and instantly rewarding to apply. Barbara Turner-Vesselago is the author of two successful writing books and a mentor to hundreds of published authors worldwide. Informative and user-friendly, this is a vital guide for writers’ groups, university seminars, and even for frank and informal one-on-one discussions between friends.
This is the revised edition of the classic Handbook of Sandplay Therapy, now with color photos embedded in the text and a linkable index. The choice to publish the revised edition as an eBook was determined by the importance of the photos. They appear here in full color in the text where they are discussed, a feature that was not possible in the print edition. Additionally, each case or vignette is available at the end of the book for review of the client biography and for tracking the process of each case. Another wonderful feature of this format is the linking between the Table of Contents, the Index, and client case material. It is all at our fingertips. Used by mental health clinicians around the world, Turner's Handbook is now in six languages.
Barbara Turner-Vesselago's first book, Writing Without a Parachute, showed writers how to fall in love with writing. This new book builds on this experience and encourages writers to pursue their work with intention and without inhibition. Freefall into Fiction: Finding Form is designed to help writers, step-by-step, to create publishable short stories, novels and memoirs by finding their own unique balance between the exploration offered by Freefall Writing and the requirements of each particular genre. This book penetrates deep inside the writing process where that balancing act takes place.
My first point of view is the highlighting of Esthers preparation to become queen of Persia, just what the process entailed. Information pertaining to oil throughout biblical history alone with other ingredient derivatives was used in the preparation process for Esther. What a blessing to discover the benefits of using olive oil; I have never considered the use of oil before. The interest came after reading the book of Esther. Essential oil, such as myrrh, combined with other ingredients has a special effect, and the anointing oil products have spiritual benefits as well. Constantly, we need revelation concerning the wisdom of Yahweh for our lives. We face situations that call for divine wisdom and understanding. The book is a helpful resource concerning things to help our focus in the way women in the kingdom should live, move, and have their being in the Most High these end times. If you ever lost anything, information here will help you recover whatever youve lost.
Ginny Haines, born the middle child in a family of eight to a poor farmer in Southern Illinois attended a one-room school from 1937-1945. Usually finding herself in a grade by herself, she made the best of the situation, enjoying the annual wiener roasts and contests, taking part in plays running in track meets, playing first base--without a glove, and joining the boys' basketball team. But Ginny has this dream...
Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside, so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment. Here for the first time, writing teacher Barbara Turner-Vesselago shares in print the method by which, for almost 30 years, she has helped hundreds of writers to publish fiction, memoir, non-fiction and poetry worldwide. By means of five simple precepts, she leads the writer step by step into real trust in writing through the art of Freefall: invoking the courage to fall without a parachute into the words as they come. This book can be used for inspiration, as a reference, or as a sustained, twelve-month course in writing. It will help all writers to connect with their deepest intention in writing, and to write with greater authority and grace.
Soul Whispers Journal is a companion to the previously published book, Soul Whispers: Listening to the Wisdom Within, and can be used in conjunction with the book or as a stand alone writing tool. The Journal contains inspirational writing prompts to encourage the user to document thier spiritial practice or journey. Its slim size makes it portable, easily fitting into a purse, daypack, or jacket pocket.
(from the Introduction) Renie from Golden Pond is the true life story of Lorene Turner Higgins. Her story begins with her birth, which was in a log cabin in the Fenton Community, located in Trigg County in what was known as "the land between the rivers." It continues to present time, where she now resides in Cadiz, Kentucky. Lorene, whose pet name is "Renie", married at the young age of fifteen to Lawton Higgins, a seventeen year old moonshiner from the neighboring community of Oak Ridge. Needless to say, the continuing saga unfolds many humorous, heart warming and exciting events. The sweet innocence of the youthful lass depicts the overwhelming emotional trauma she experiences as she copes with being married to a moonshiner; living with her mother-in-law, Ma Annie; after a year of marriage, giving birth to her first child, Virgil, who is deaf; and while he is a baby, having her second child, Doris.
Woodbury possesses a rich heritage that reads like the story of America. Established in 1683 by Quakers seeking religious freedom, the community was occupied for three days by British troops under Gen. Charles Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War. In 1787, Woodbury became the county seat of Gloucester County, and it remains so to this day. It was home to Capt. James Lawrence, who coined the phrase "Don't give up the ship" during the War of 1812. Woodbury features views of the lavish homes built by prominent residents, scenes of the 1904 train wreck, and never-before-published images of the Broad Street business district in the mid-1900s.
Mother Barbara, ministers to those with childhood pain, issuers. Some emotional pain take years to be completely eradicated, some scars run deeper then most, they can be healed by God's power. Author, Barbara Sword Turner like many others is no different, as she looks back into the years of emptiness, and suffering, lack of necessities of things other take for granted. She, and her sibling were scarce of the kind of love that products, well balance emotionally strong and capable children. She always heard, you don't miss what you never had, she did. Never having what was vital in growing up, it left a void, neglected, low self-esteem, the tremors, not being able to attend school due to lack. She survived a bumpy ride, God saw her through it all! Her search for love, led her to the wrong people and places, the bitter root grew, infiltrated judgment, and visions of life. This book will cause you to be inspired and motivated, moving memoir will impact lives forever. The readers will find the courage to look into their past and let go, what is not needed receive from Christ what is needed, embrace it! A painful life, it's design to work for your good,
Combining the fields of child psychology and child education, this groundbreaking work explores how engaging children in Jungian sandplay therapy and imaginative storytelling can improve classroom performance and to increase intelligence scores. Written by child specialists, it makes a solid argument for the necessary consideration of the unconscious and the inner world of the individual child in learning and advocates that curriculum design for children must include both imaginative therapeutic play and active attention to children's emotional needs. Educators, psychotherapists, and concerned parents alike will find this book informative and useful.
Beat the stress and strain of parenthood and learn to rekindle the love, intimacy and spontaneity of your marriage. Mayer shows readers how to find time and energy for passion, dinner by candlelight, getaway weekends, stolen kisses--all the things you thought were lost when you brought the baby home. Excerpted in Readers Digest.
This is a manual for training teachers in the Sandtray Play in Education method. It introduces a holistic approach to childhood education that returns the child's natural medium of creative play to the learning environment. Sadly, most approaches to contemporary childhood education are not successful in teaching children the riches of language and numbers and the capacities to think, inquire and create. We are failing our children by not designing educational curricula that is appropriate to the learning styles of children.
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality. More importantly, these stereotypes influence the daily lives of aging adults, as well as how younger generations perceive and interact with older individuals. In light of our graying population and the growing diversity of portrayals of older characters in popular culture, it is important to examine how we understand aging. In Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor present a collection of essays that address the increasing presence of characters that simultaneously manifest and challenge the accepted stereotypes of aging. The contributors to this volume explore representations in television programs, comic books, theater, and other forms of media. The chapters include examinations of aging male and female actors who take on leading roles in such movies as Gran Torino, Grudge Match, Escape Plan, Space Cowboys, Taken,and The Big Lebowski as well as TheExpendables, Red,and X-Men franchises. Other chapters address perceptions of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and race as manifested by such cultural icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Danny Trejo, Helen Mirren, Betty White, Liberace, and Tyler Perry’s Madea. With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that encompass the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes, this book offers a broader range of new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging. Aging Heroes will be of interest to scholars of film, television, gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, aging studies, and media studies, as well as to general readers.
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the emerging participation of Muslims in American life-issues like these require political journalists in print and broadcast media to cover religious contexts that many admit they are ill-equipped to understand. Put differently, these news events reflect subtle theological nuances and deep faith commitments that shape the activities of religious believers in the public square. Inasmuch as a faith tradition is an active or significant participant in the public arena, journalists will need to better understand the theological sources and religious convictions that motivate this political activity. The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.
Examines the instruments that make up an orchestra, their arrangement on the stage, the role of the conductor, and the need of the musicians to practice.
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