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Writing Fearlessly: Coaching the Writer Within
Type of Presentation
Workshop (60-75 minutes)
Session Abstract
Feeling uninspired or stuck when it comes to your professional writing? Attend this session to learn creativity coaching techniques to help you overcome your creative blocks, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety.
Target Audience
This session is targeted to individuals within the field of adult education who are struggling with creative blocks, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety related to their professional writing. As a former adult literacy instructor, turned professor of adult education, and now a creativity and academic writing coach, I know firsthand the writing requirements of the profession, so audience members may include professors who struggle to write academic journal articles, graduate students unable to finish their theses or dissertations, administrators who procrastinate and struggle to complete their reports, or adult educators who put off the professional writing assignments related to their jobs.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session, through the use of creativity coaching techniques, learners will be able to describe and understand their personal writing behaviors and the contingencies they need to manage in order to become more productive writers. Participants will also be able to identify the five stages of the creative process (Maisel, 1995), recognize the anxieties associated with each stage, and understand the appropriate solution for overcoming each of the anxieties. This will provide session participants with the tools necessary to help them begin to overcome their own creative blocks, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety.
Session Description
For this session, I propose to conduct a professional development workshop for adult education teachers, administrators, professors, and graduate students, who find they struggle with creative blocks, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety when it comes to their professional writing. As a creativity coach and associate professor of adult education, I know books and journal articles are required for tenure, a dissertation for graduation, grant proposals for funding, technical reports for evaluation, and so on. Yet, many professionals struggle with their writing projects (Boice, 1990). I will provide participants with techniques to name and identify the stage(s) in the creative process they struggle with from wishing, choosing, starting, working, completing, to showing. We will discuss anxieties associated with each stage—hungry mind, confused mind, weakened mind, chaotic mind, critical mind, shy mind, attached mind. I will offer solutions from the field of creativity coaching (Maisel, 1995; 2005; 2011) for overcoming each anxiety.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Friday November 8
Primary Presenter
Dr. Dominique T. Chlup, Texas A&M University
Work Title
Associate Professor