Writing Workshops in Portland
We’ll be posting specific information (dates, places, etc) for winter and spring, 2010, workshops shortly. See below for an idea of the types of workshops we do.
All workshops are in affiliation with Breakerboy Communications, in addition to partner organizations listed below. Check back frequently as more workshops will be added shortly.
- Strategic business communications
- Strategic business communications micro session
- Personal narrative: writing your true myth story
1. BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATIONS: CREATE WORDS THAT CREATE RESULTS
With budget constraints and a lack of resources, more and more micro businesses, sole proprietors, and organizational leaders are being tasked with creating their own words for their online content, print marketing, and presentations. Breakthrough Communications is designed to help simplify the process by enhancing the skills you and your employees need to create the right words for websites, sales letters, seminars, brochures, blogs, presentations, articles, mailers, mission statements and more.
ENHANCE YOUR WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
Breakthrough Communications will focus on how to enhance your written communications and marketing efforts, and is especially geared to supporting:
- Owners of micro businesses who wish to cultivate a communications specialist on their team;
- Sole proprietors who often dread having to create their own writing and communications pieces;
- Senior executives and managers who must communicate on a regular basis with internal and external audiences through blogs and newsletters;
- Graphic designers who are frequently called upon to create the words for their clients; and
- Writers who wish to expand their professional services and begin doing more marketing and brand-related work.
Breakthrough Communications will center on the specific needs of each participant, while covering a number of topics, including:
- How to move beyond blocks that get in the way of your writing.
- Tips for getting started and moving through powerful, captivating and effective blog posts, newsletters and online articles
- Creating taglines, headers, and short statements that connect with your company’s promise and reflect with the needs of your clients and customers.
- Developing a source document from where your core business communications flow.
- How to create powerful, meaningful online content that also helps your site’s search engine rankings.
- The workshop will also include professional networking opportunities and one-on-one mentoring/review between sessions.
2. BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATIONS MICRO SESSION
Set for the day after the six-week course ends, the micro session will be a creative introduction for those who are interested in taking the longer course this upcoming winter or spring. In this creative and interactive three-hour session, we’ll focus on stepping out of our boxes in order to break through writer’s block and fashion the words that will truly help our businesses thrive and succeed.
3. WRITING YOUR TRUE MYTH STORY
Myth exists at the core of good storytelling, whether it’s a classic tale, a yarn spun around the campfire, your own personal journey. “True Myth Story” will help you create a structure, find a theme, and stay on the path toward writing the memoir or personal narrative you’ve always wanted to write. We’ll discuss how to apply the concepts outlined in Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers in helping to get your story started and keeping it moving.
