Are you a physician, nurse, mental health professional, hospice worker, health coach, or other healthcare professional?

This 2-day workshop is designed for anyone working in the healthcare field and provides experiential training with easily adaptable lessons, activities, and guideposts to use with your clients and patients.

This workshop will be held May 2-3, 2019 at Duke Integrative Medicine. 

Join instructors John F. Evans and Karen Jooste as they lead you through progressive learning that incorporates Reasons for Writing for Health including... 

The workshop will lead you through progressive learning that incorporates these reasons for Writing for Health:

• Creating vision
• Setting intentions
• Assessing status
• Stimulating thinking for insight and understanding
• Expressing and defining readiness to change
• Clarifying importance and building confidence
• Changing perception and perspective
• Facilitating mindfulness practice
• Measuring progress
• Removing obstacles to build and resilience
• Encouraging staying on track
• Creating, developing, and supporting exuberance
• Producing opportunities to flourish
• Building resilience
• Communicating gratitude, empathy and compassion
• Affirming strengths

Early Registration Deadline:  April 12, 2019

Last Day to Register:  April 26, 2019

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to better equip your patients to heal!

“Writing about stressful situations is one of the easiest ways for people to take control of their problems and release the negative effects of stress from their bodies and their lives.” -James Pennebaker, PhD

ENROLLING NOW!

This program  is an advanced study program based on expressive writing research, practices, and principles as described in a growing body of literature related to writing and health. After successfully completing the Expressive Writing Facilitator Course, the candidate will be certified to teach Transform Your Health: Write to Healᵀᴹ. 

CANDIDATES

The ideal candidates have professional credentials or experience in healthcare, or a related service field, such as counseling, education, or intensive writing experience as a caregiver.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Minimum requirements are as follows:
 
1. WWC 9000 - Transform Your Health: Write to Heal
 
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WWC 9100 - Leading Patients in Writing for Health. This is a professional training focusing on the guiding principles and characteristics of affirmative, expressive, poetic, transactional, H.E.A.L ing, mindful, and legacy writing and how they may be applied in a healthcare setting or individually. (Offered once a year at Duke Integrative Medicine, group rates available)
 
2. WWC 9200 – Expressive Writing Research Project. This is completed individually in the form of a study of studies developed in collaboration with program director.

3. WWC 9300 – Mindful Writing. This 6-week experiential program examines the six As of Mindful Writing; Appreciation, Affection, Affirmation, Awareness, Attention, Acceptance.
 
4. WWC 9400 - Expressive Writing Practicum. This is a 6-week supervised practice using poetic, affirmative, expressive, transactional, , legacy and mindful writing with individuals or a group.
 
5. WWC 9500 - Wellness and Writing Workshop Portfolio - The candidate will use materials with prompts and evaluations for three settings and/or clients. Tor example: Rehabilitation Centers, Wellness Centers, Children's Hospitals, Cancer Clinics, At-Risk 6th grade Students, Women's Prisons, Hospice Services, ICU nurses, Retirement Communities, Prisons.
 
COURSE TIMELINE

It is recommended for the candidate to complete this certification program within 12 months of their application.  Most modules will be completed in six weeks or less. Support, coaching, and mentoring is offered by email or phone or online video chat. This certification course is limited to 6 candidates per cohort. 

PROGRAM COSTS

Fees are due prior to starting the certification program unless other arrangements have been made in advance. The total cost for the Expressive Writing Facilitator Certification Program is $2495 including WWC 9000. If you have already completed WWC 9000 or WWC 9100, your total program cost is $1995. Payment plan options are available. 
 
COURSE DETAILS

• Modules will be delivered by email. 
• Weekly video chat sessions are required during each module. 
• Group communication is encouraged in a Facebook group dedicated to your cohort. 

HOW TO APPLY 
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Before applying for admission to the certification program, a thirty-minute phone interview is recommended.   A complete application includes a nonrefundable deposit of $100 USD, a vita, and a personal statement.  Please contact us for an application and to set up your interview. . 
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Join me this December at 1440 Multiversity for an immersive weekend including daily wellness offerings, nourishing meals, and holistic amenities.

This is a special program with carefully chosen, evidenced-based writing prompts, you bring closure to the challenges of the old year and begin the new one with a fresh vision for health, vitality, and your best possible life.

Through this writing retreat, you will learn seven types of writing: mindful, healing, expressive, transactional, poetic, affirmative, and legacy writing as you honor the experiences of the past year and transition mindfully into the New Year. Writing can be a transformative tool for anyone who wants to direct awareness inward and open up to greater self-awareness, growth, and healing.

As you honor the experiences of the past year and transition mindfully into the New Year, you will:

• Write to stimulate thinking that leads to insights and understanding
• Create your vision of vibrant wellness
• Clarify values that inform your intentions
• Identify and remove obstacles to build confidence and resilience
• Open to new perspectives in ways that lead to more joy and optimism.

Enjoy this opportunity to ask yourself deep questions about who you are, what you value, and how you want to show up in the world. You will take home new, supportive, and revealing practices to connect to your inner dialogue at any time and to flourish no matter what life brings your way.

The fall session of Transform Your Health: Write to Heal will begin on November 7th. This six week course meets at Duke Integrative Medicine meeting on Wednesday evenings from 6:00  - 8:00. The final class will be held on December 12.

This workshop is designed to help you discover ways to manage stressful events and upheavals in your life through writing. The act of writing engages internal healing resources that affect mental and physical health. Expressive writing has the power to help you reduce heart rate and blood pressure, minimize stress, strengthen the immune system, and improve your self-esteem.

Transform Your Health:  Write to Heal is a transformative six-week workshop that helps you access your inner healing voice. You do not need to have writing experience or aspirations in order to participate. The instructor will lead you through a progression of restorative writing exercises. The workshop employs different modes of writing that help you to heal in unique ways, including:
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• Expressive writing, which removes obstacles and moves you beyond a personal, private emotional upheaval or crisis.
• Transactional writing, which allows you to take care of unfinished business and conveys your feelings, expectations, and intentions for yourself and others, in gratitude, compassion, forgiveness and loving kindness.
• Poetic writing, which uses narrative structure and metaphor to tell your story as you wish to tell it.
• Affirmative writing, which centers your focus on your best qualities and how you would like to express your life in the future.
• Legacy writing, which teaches you to write for others about your values, major life lessons, turning points and epiphanies.
• Mindful writing, which teaches you to write with awareness, attention, acceptance, affection, appreciation, affirmation. 

​Recommended Reading: Expressive Writing: Words that Heal; Wellness and Writing Connections: Writing for Better Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health; Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

Early Bird Discount ends October 22nd.

Last day to register is November 5th.

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