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"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside you." --Judith Jameson
Joanne Klassen autographs copies of her book, Tools of Transformation
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Heartspace Associates of Winnipeg
presents an innovative personal and career development
program featuring Transformative Writing™, a vehicle for
self discovery and expression.
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| Purpose Heartspace Writing School is a unique learning community established in 1998 by Joanne Klassen to introduce the Transformative Writing™ Process, a way of moving beyond writing technologies to tap into the unlimited creative, intuitive forces available to everyone. There are no red pens here. No previous writing experience is needed.
Benefits Personal and career communications come alive with better results using Transformative Writing™. Simple, proven processes and 25 new tools to break down old barriers create new pathways to access: Thoughts • Ideas • Feelings • Emotions Zero in on the "roots and wings" needed to make writing
a more joyful, satisfying experience. Set your goals and your
timetable. - Find your unique writer's voice - Use encouragement as a springboard "This program gives your words wings!" |
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Features 1. The time, place, focus, feedback, support and techniques for starting and staying with self exploration and writing. 2. A dynamic group experience using a variety of approaches to increase awareness, self-confidence and creative expression. 3. 25 Transformative Writing™ Tools. The Heartspace Writing School
Mission: Life enriching personal development and creative Core Values: Building:
Clarity • Confidence An Invitation to . . . • Anyone looking for a life changing new way of viewing and expressing themself. • Closet writers who have wondered if their writing is any good and want help to over- come fear and doubt. • Anyone who has wanted to write and wondered how to get started. "I can finally say, 'I like myself and my writing'.
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| NEWS! The European Centre for Transformative Life Writing was formed in April 2010 as a partnership between Heartspace Writing School’s Director, Joanne Klassen and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre of Birmingham, England. This provides Woodbrooke's outstanding educational and administrative resources to offer easy access for both European and North American audiences for Transformative Life Writing. The first workshop request was received from Sweden within days after the Centre was established. To learn more about program opportunities contact: Stuart Masters stuart.masters@woodbrooke.org.uk or Joanne Klassen jklassen@write-away.net |
Life Writing For Transformation
WIth Joanne Klassen and Eleanor Chornoboy
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham,
England
April, 2012
For more information and to register visit http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk
or email: enquiries@woodbrooke.org.uk
A Week of Transformation with Joanne Klassen
at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
May, 2012.
Limited to the first 10 registrants, no qualification
requirements.
For more information and to register visit: http://www.cmu.ca/writing_school.html
Tools of Transformation: Write Your Way to New Worlds of Possibility - in Just 5 Minutes by Joanne Haynes Klassen
If you want to bring the best of yourself to the rest of your life, Tools of Transformation is a book you'll find packed with helpful guidance, illustrations, and exercises.
Joanne Klassen's book Tools Of Transformation is used in all Heartspace Writing Classes.
Time For A Story?
An anthology of stories from 13 Heartspace writers spanning four generations.
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Learning to Live, Learning to Love by Joanne Haynes Klassen
Beautifully told through words and pictures, the Learning To Live, Learning To Love, describes the human journey toward openness, forgiveness and fulfilment. In this book you will discover ways to increase self-worth, understand addictions, communicate effectively, and joyfully experience life moment by moment.
Trouble In Grandpa's Golf Bag by Joanne Haynes Klassen
What trouble is brewing in Grandpa's golf bag? Curl up beside Grandma and hear about how Grandpa's birthday present, a shiny new golf club, causes an upset when it brags to the other clubs that it is Grandpa's favourite.
Whether golf clubs or family members, the newest often gets lots of attention. Trouble in Grandpa's Golf Bag gives children a glimpse of the range of feelings they may have. The story ends with the reassurance that, oldest or newest, have you guessed? Inside our hearts we love each of you best.
$19.95 Canadian plus shipping and handling. $15.95 USA
plus shipping and handling.
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Faspa - A Snack Of Mennonite Stories by Eleanor Chornoboy
Faspa; teatime, coffee-break; a coffee and snack time between lunch and supper.
Kjenn Jie Noch Plautdietsch? A Mennonite Low German Dictionary by Herman Rempel
Faspa is a smorgasbord of Mennonite stories with universal appeal. The pages are filled with stories and anecdotes about the rural way of life ofthe second and third generation Canadians – Mennonite Canadians.
The stories are spiced with a healthy dose of humour, a deep sense of pathos, and practical, home grown information. Read about:
- toilet training with straw
- farming with stubborn broncos
- home grown medical practices
- the impact of Mennonite sons going off to war
- rural telephone party lines
- and much, much more.
Each page offers a glimpse of Mennonite life. The reader
is given a taste of what has been left in the past, and an appetite for
the savoury traditions of today like Faspa.
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Snow Angles by Eleanor Chornoboy
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Snow Angels is a beautiful story that touches the heart and lingers there long after, as a loving gesture would. It will delight children and the child in all of us with its tale of winter magic and the gifts of pure kindness and love.- Marjorie Anderson, Editor of Dropped Threads
