I work with Mike Gast to develop and edit first-person pieces and interviews for his Organize the Rich Substack, examining the lineage of and lessons learned for moving wealthy people and wealth toward social justice. This includes transforming transcripts of long and layered conversations into powerful, digestible Substack posts. I provide project management support to keep the project organized and moving forward with purpose.

I provide content and copyediting for a collection of essays written as blog posts and transformed to printed book, Justice for All God’s Creation: Essays from an Earth Care Congregation. I executed the layout and setup needed to self-publish the book on Kindle Direct Press. My project management kept editors and contributors on track for an ambitious timeline.

This five week restorative writing group encouraged participants to start the year fresh by writing down what they carried and making room for new ideas. Prompts included art, essay, poetry, music, and more. Each week, participants met online to learn and practice a new technique to generate writing. Take-home prompts stoked inspiration between sessions.

I currently work with a writer in Arlington, VA. I am reading through hundreds of her old drafts and snippets to help her identify essays and topics for inclusion in a memoir book of essays.

I supported a client who wanted writing prompts, coaching, and editing to help him reflect and write about family and aging. Our check-ins motivated him to keep writing. His writing helped him connect childhood memories to current experiences with his child and grandchild as well as the many forms of prejudice and hatred he has witnessed across time and culture.

For two years in a row, I was delighted to co-lead this 8-week group in Chapel Hill, NC with Carol Henderson, a writer, teacher, editor, and coach (www.carolhenderson.com). Participants included people coping with illness and grief as patients and caregivers—or both. Carol and I guided participants through a series of writing exercises designed to help group members turn inward for wisdom, draw on existing literature as inspiration, and gain fortitude. The 2015 group gave a reading at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, on Sunday, March 16, 2015 and were met with a standing ovation.

I worked with Carol Henderson to facilitate a prompt-based, weekly writing workshop at UNC Hospitals. The workshop was open to hospital staff, patients and their families, and members of the surrounding community looking for a writing respite.

In this session at a weekend retreat, I helped women with rare bleeding disorders use approachable group exercises and individual prompts to put on paper to capture the feelings and experiences they explored during their retreat.