CREATIVE WRITING CONSULTATION

Jennifer Johnson offers creative writing workshops and private consultation for beginners to experienced writers working within all genres. She assists people in exploring the richness of their stories from everyday life and working toward shaping them into narrative. Students include writers who are writing for publication, for personal fulfillment, to leave as legacy for family, or for personal growth and healing. Jennifer's work with creative writing clients is about helping writers to discover their authentic voice, write with greater ease and enjoyment, and learn to become skilled at editing their own work.

Jennifer provides writing coaching to assist writers with setting writing goals and achieving them. She helps writers to write more deeply, imaginatively, frequently, and efficiently. She assists writers in developing traits such as discipline, self confidence, and resiliency that encourage a writer's success. Jennifer assists clients who are struggling with writer's block or procrastination and assists them in learning new strategies to overcome these barriers and achieve their writing goals.

Jennifer has undertaken extensive study in the field of Narrative Medicine. She facilitates creative writing groups as reflective practice for health care and mental health care professionals. Health care and mental health care professionals are by nature story listeners. We bear witness to a great deal of suffering, and at times that suffering seems inconsolable. The poet Paul Celan notes, "No one bears witness for the witness." In slowing down our listening through reflective writing practice, we hear others' and our own stories more deeply, and we come to know and understand our selves and others more fully. Practiced individually, reflective writing practice allows us to bear witness to our own witnessing. Practiced in a group setting, we are able to bear witness to the witnessing of others.

For writing tips and musings, see Jennifer's blog at http://writingaspilgrimage.blogspot.com