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Metaphorical Ink: Services

Manuscript Development/Writing Coach: we work with individual authors to develop a book project from concept to full manuscript.

Customized Workshops: we will develop unique workshops for your in-house professional development programs, conferences, staff retreats, etc. All workshops will include a customized series of brief guided writing activities on your themes and issues, and will employ active learning strategies, sharing and presenting, inspirational quotations, and laughter.

Thank you so much for leading us through our retreat with such organization, purpose, and energy. We left feeling enthusiastic about what we do and with a real sense of accomplishment. In addition, your gracious manner helped us follow you wherever you wanted to go!

Project Development and Management: we can help your organization develop and implement a unique project. We have experience facilitating links between organizations for mutual benefit. What new project is calling out for development, but you don’t have the staff to make it happen?

We welcome your inquiries about customized programs to meet your needs.

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Metaphorical Ink: Current Projects

On behalf of all of us, thank you so much for coming to our group and presenting the workshop. The topic fit it perfectly with the scope of our group and we're all very excited about trying our individual hands at producing a memory for your collection.

Manuscript in Production
Jo Carubia has completed a manuscript for memoir client, Alexander Kalenak, M.D.. His memoir, Something More: Reflections on a Bountiful Life, is currently in production. In fall, 2009, look for this remarkable personal history of a World War II childhood in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania, a pioneering career in sports medicine, and a life seeking the true meanings of faith and healing. Dr. Kalenak was the team orthopedic surgeon with the Penn State Nittany Lion football team for twenty two years. Foreword by Coach Joe Paterno.

Thank you for delivering such a moving and comforting tribute to our beloved husband and father. Most especially, thank you for working so faithfully to preserve his memories that will be a source of great joy to us for many years to come.

Cultural Awareness in Health Care Settings
We are working with a non-profit organization and a medical center to develop a series of Cultural Awareness Panels for health care professionals. Drawing upon the resources of the non-profit organization and the community, panels of internationals will discuss health, wellness, and medical care assumptions, expectations, habits, and practices of their cultures to help professionals understand them better when they meet in a health related encounter. Open discussion will follow brief panel presentations.

Staff Development
We are developing a series of workshops to aid staff in (a) guiding and encouraging journal writing with their clients, (b) responding to disclosure writing, and (c) using journal writing as part of their own self-care strategy.

Write-Hers Club and Write-Hers Camp
This is a wellness and leadership development program using guided writing. It is appropriate for adult women seeking workforce re-entry or career development or any other new opportunities in their lives. The club and camp environments are safe and comfortable places for women to challenge themselves and develop new skills for work advancement as well as new insights into family, habits, and life in general.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
“Wellness Writing and Cognitive Vitality”
Research shows that writing may activate a range of health benefits such as improved mood, reduced blood pressure, improved immune system functioning, improved memory, reduced stress and more.  These sessions will use brief guided writing, inspirational quotes, group discussion, and laughter to motivate habits of wellness writing and cognitive vitality.

See also Submit Your Writing for additional projects that invite submission of short writing.

We welcome your inquiries about customized programs to meet your needs.

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