Continuing education
October 20, 2006
Why should I be the only one who over commits? Be warned Margie is addictive. If you can’t manage this workshop check out lots more options on her web site: http://www.margielawson.com/
EMPOWERING CHARACTERS’ EMOTIONS
INSTRUCTOR: Margie Lawson, M.S.
November 1-30, 2006
Cutoff date to receive registration and payment: October 30.
Workshop Registraiton: $25.00 U.S.D. http://www.writersonlineclasses.com
Empowering Characters’ Emotions:
If you want to enhance characters’ emotions, learn the nuances of body language and edit for emotion, this is the workshop for you. The following topics will be addressed:
The full range of nonverbal communication: Kinesics, Haptics, Proxemics, Facial expressions, Paralanguage . . .
Proprioceptive stimuli, Involuntary physical responses
Ideomotoric shifts
Mirroring, Communication Accommodation
Levels of intimacy, Love signals
Nonverbal gender differences
Emotional authenticity
Backloading
In-trancing the Reader
The EDITS System
Basic, complex, empowered, and super empowered passages
Backstory management
Writing fresh . . .
Projecting Emotion for a Non-POV character
Carrying a Nonverbal Image Forward
Objective Constructs
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Margie Lawson holds a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology with a two-year concentration beyond her master’s degree, specializing in psychiatric counseling and nonverbal communication. Her resume includes college professor, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist and keynote speaker.
Margie merges her two worlds, psychology and writing, by analyzing writing craft as well as the psyche of the writer. She developed new psychologically-anchored editing systems and techniques which hook the reader viscerally. A frequent speaker at writing conferences, Margie also presents 1) Empowering Characters’ Emotions, 2) Deep Editing: Rhetorical Devices, The EDITS System and More, and 3) Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviors in high-energy one and two-day workshops to writing organizations nationally.
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