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| RESOURCES FOR LIFEWRITING TEACHERS
FROM SOLEIL LIFESTORY NETWORK http://turningmemories.com/tipsforteachers.html |
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Bottom Line Fall Workshops--Prepare Now Anytime the economy is in a downturn... Earn More Than You Earn Now: Estimate Your Income Your workshop tuition is not your income. You must factor in... Certification Master Certification We are developing a Master Teacher Certification program and need your feedback as we grow the grogram. We are including here a survey which we hope you will fill out and return to us immediately... Goal Setting Building Your Business, Part 3 Categorize Your Goals In this last installment of the three-part series, you learn a method of defining and organizing your goals that makes reaching them easier... Marketing Effective Marketing Ideas Many of you reading this may be asking yourself, "Is there a best sort of business outreach?" and "Is any outreach better than none?" Suspects & Prospects, The Pipeline Part II Marketing is not rocket science. In many ways, it is an intuitive process...Your outreach is successful not because anyone says you have a beautiful brochure or great web site. Marketing is successful when it brings in enough paying clients... The Marketing Pipeline--Keep it Flowing Ignore the pipeline to your great peril! We must always be aware of having the marketing pipeline full of prospects. This is an ongoing process. It is never done!! Personal Growth/Business Growth Childhood Messages Getting In Your Way? Why is it so hard for some of us to make resource materials available to clients via sales? Are the well-learned values messages of your childhood overriding your adult business intelligence... When Hard Work Pays Off It's not easy holding students to high standards. But if you do, the payoff is great... Increase Your Personal Historian Skill & Confidence Did you know you could get individual business coaching via Soleil Lifestory Network? Or that you could be supported week by week in the process of writing our own memoirs? Eleven avenues to grow as a personal historian... Building Your Business, Part 1 First of a three-part series. Building Your Business, Part 2 In this second of a three-part series, Denis Ledoux takes you through all of the steps needed to make your lifewriting business a success... Think Solutions Is "it can't be done!" an alibi? Negative thinking is self-defeating... Walk the Walk The foundation for building your lifewriting business, whether it focuses entirely on presenting wokshops or includes editing, co-authoring and coaching services, is... Teaching with Two Minds The workshop teacher must always listen to workshop lifestories with two minds... A "Buddy" Can Help You to Grow Your Business Working with another writing teacher... Branding Yourself Making a public presence for your work... Students Need More Than Presentation Don't withhold what your students need... Resources The Editor's Manual Reviewed Maryanne Raphael of Writers World recently reviewed our newest professional development manual,The Editor's Manual... Associate's Book Available on Amazon Associate teacher Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., recently published Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story... Stories from the Field Brown Bag Beginnings Soleil Lifestory Network Certified Teacher Robbie ter Kuile started her business at a brown bag lunch... Life as an Affiliate How do Affiliates go about organizing their memoir workshop businesses? The following report provides an encouraging and do-able glimpse... Inspiration for New Year Success You'll need a new calendar and a list of resolutions soon enough. Read how some teachers have prepared for next year by enhancing their own writing... Ellen Greenfield, Jerusalem, Israel Soleil Lifestory Network Certified Teacher Ellen Greenfield is bringing Turning Memories Into Memoirs® to Jerusalem.. Reports From the Field Soleil Lifestory Network teachers describe their workshops, their successes, and their plans. Working with Clients Goals and Limits Soleil Affiliate Lisa Dodd posed an interesting problem recently. She was working with a client who was resisting her efforts to shape the manuscript. Denis Ledoux offers some thoughts on clarifying parameters, setting common goals, and gracefully accepting clients' limitations... Embrace the Concept of the Competition! Who/what is the Competition and how can we use it to our best advantage in building the creative small business that provides all the emotional, creative and financial supports we dream of? When Your Writers Lose Interest When writers feel what they have written doesn't seem to matter anymore, what's going on? Essential for Excellence What you can do right now to prepare yourself to excel as a lifewriting teacher? For one thing, you must have written more than your students... How to Teach with Confidence "How do people teach Turning Memories Into Memoirs® Worshops with any confidence if they have not come to a training program?" I was asked last week... The Value of Networking and Consistent Outreach Publicity done consistently... |