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36: Mindful Writing with Donna Strickland
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Donna Strickland Helps Writers Add Mindfulness to Their Workday
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Donna Strickland knows firsthand how painful writing can be. When she started hating the book she was writing, she knew something had to change. That's when she discovered the principles of mindful writing, a practice she teaches in classes and workshops across the US.
Mindfulness is that quality of paying attention to what's happening in the present moment without judgment."In this episode, we discuss:
- the work of Robert Boice
- interpersonal mindfulness
- the transformative power of becoming aware of our body
- what tight shoulders and hunching over the computer might be telling us
- why short, focused sessions are better than longer ones, and the lure and danger of hypomania
- suggestions for a few moves and yoga postures that we can use throughout our workday (Hint: they don't have to be complicated!)
Reach Donna via email
Donna's upcoming (November 2018) workshop
Donna's book, The Managerial Unconscious in Composition Studies
How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency, by Robert Boice
Mindfulness for Educators Program at Antioch University
Ann Bettencourt, who runs the Mindful Relations Laboratory at University of Missouri—Columbia
Ken Robinson's TED talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity? [Spoiler: Yes!]
And finally, a big thanks to our sponsor, Hoefel Haus Bed, Breakfast & Bike Hostel
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