The retreat will feature two workshops by Elena K. Abbott, PhD. Each workshop is intended for a broad audience, including book and article writers across all disciplines. Both workshops are 90 minutes and will take place each day after lunch.
Writing with Purpose: Embracing your WHYs and WHOs
This workshop offers conceptual and practical strategies to use at any point in the writing process to help you communicate your core intervention(s) as effectively as possible to your intended audience(s). Helping you reconsider your work through the lens of structure and purpose, this workshop is designed to deepen your sense of connection to your writing, reduce writing anxiety, and get the most out of your writing time.
Mindful Productivity for a Sustainable Writing Practice
This workshop offers practical strategies to build a sustainable and productive writing practice by cultivating your relationship with your energy, developing realistic goals, structuring your writing time, and building supportive habits.
Elena K. Abbott, PhD
“This workshop was life-changing and transformative. Dr. Elena K. Abbott is a superb teacher and facilitator; no one had explained how to improve the clarity in my writing so succinctly and successfully before this.”
“It was engaging and clear [...] and provided a useful prompt to think hard about where I am at.”
“The workshop not only helped tremendously with my writing, but also gave me the space to clarify what my writing and my work in the institution mean to me.”