Journaling - the 'Write' Way to a Better Life
Instructor: Erica Miner
Testimonial: "Erica, I've really enjoyed this class. You made
it very challenging for me, and managed to pull a lot out
of me... the workshop was well worth it. Thanks!"
Have you always wanted to journal but have had trouble getting started? Have you journaled in the past but need a jump start to get your journaling creativity going again? Do you need to add some 'sizzle' to your journaling experience?
Journaling - the 'Write' Way to a Better Life' is the perfect course for you!
Journaling expert and Queenpower.com's 'Journaling Queen,' Erica Miner, will motivate and inspire you to start or continue your journey of self-discovery through your journals. Author of the award-winning journal-based novel, Travels With My Lovers, Erica brings an expertise developed over a near-lifetime to this dynamic course.
Through intriguing prompts, well-researched methods and thought-provoking exercises, Erica will teach you how you can gain the most personal knowledge from the journaling process and answer such questions as:
- Why is Journaling such a life-altering tool?
- How can self-dialogue help you heal yourself?
- How can you transform your life by capturing your thoughts and feelings on paper?
- How can you make Journaling fun, creative and rewarding?
Journaling is for everybody, no matter what age or which stage of life. Preserve your family legacies and gain from your own personal insights. All participants will received an email edition of Erica's valuable Journaling Resource Sheet to guide them in their Journaling journeys.
For those students who would like to enhance their journaling experience, Erica will also offer private one-on-one mentoring via email, providing feedback and personalized comments on their journal entries.
All participants will received an email edition of Erica's valuable Journaling Resource Sheet to guide them in their Journaling journeys.
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Start Date: October 5, 2005 and the first
Wednesday of each month thereafter.
Duration: 3 weeks.
Student Limit N/A
Class Materials Instructor will provide.
Tuition: $75
Private Tutorial Option: $35
Violinist turned author, Erica Miner has had a multi-faceted career as an award-winning screenwriter, author and poet. A native of Detroit, she studied music at Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music. After experiencing a variety of highs and lows in her quest to forge a career in New York City, Erica won the coveted position of violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Performing in this high-pressured milieu while raising her two children on her own, Erica felt gratified, confident that she had reached the pinnacle of her field.
But one day her life became even more challenging, when as a result of a car accident she was no longer able to perform on the violin. Searching for a new creative outlet, she drew upon her lifelong love of writing for inspiration. She studied poetry writing and screenwriting, winning a number of awards in both categories. Her six screenplays have won awards and/or placed in such competitions as American Accolades, WinFemme, Santa Fe and the Writer’s Digest. Now a Southern California resident, Erica honed her screenwriting skills with author and script guru Linda Seger of "Making a Good Script Great" fame and with Ken Rotcop, the author of “Perfect Pitch.”
Eventually Erica set out to write about her life as a musician and single mother and published her first novel, Travels with My Lovers, winner of the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards. Inspired by her journals written during her travel adventures in Europe with and without her children, Erica penned her novel with a dual goal: first, to entertain; and second, to speak to all generations of women and encourage them to express their emotional freedom. Erica has recently completed screenplay adaptations for this novel and for her suspense thriller, Murder In The Pit, which takes place at the Met. She is currently at work on a novel series with ‘baby boomers’ in mind, chronicling a young girl’s coming of age in the volatile 60s and 70s.
In addition, Erica has developed a number of writing lectures and seminars related to Travels With My Lovers, which she has presented at various venues across the West Coast and abroad. She has recently been proclaimed a ‘Top-rated Speaker’ by Celebrity Cruise Lines, and her writings have appeared in San Diego Vision Magazine, WORD San Diego and numerous E-zines. Details about Erica’s novels, screenplays, seminars and interviews can be found on her website, http://www.ericaminer.com
Author of Travels With My Lovers
Fiction Prize Winner,
Direct from the Author Book Awards
Top-rated Lecturer, Celebrity Cruise Lines
