Jerry Waxler
Lessons from my 20 year pilgrimage through the land of memoirs
September 20, 2024
11 AM PDT | 12 PM MDT | 1 PM CDT | 2 PM EDT
In today’s member session, regular contributor Jerry Waxler, MS, LPC, will share some of the lessons he’s learned from 20 years of immersion in memoirs, culminating in the recent publication of his memoir How I Learned to Love the World: My epic journey from solving equations to healing hearts with therapy, writing and memoirs.
Jerry has been a decades-long supporter of NAMW’s vision and a always creative and welcome guest. Jerry’s books are always from the heart, as is his teaching and shared conversations. We met through finding each other online in 2008 when I had just started NAMW, and I have enjoyed learning from Jerry’s deep explorations about memoir through the years.
Some things you’ll learn:
- How to start writing with Beginner’s Mind
- Tips on how to remain persistent and engaged through the many stages of writing a book.
- The memoir writer’s dance between short pieces, essays, and book length stories.
- How to show the stuff you have learned without sounding like a teacher.
- How to think about a midlife coming-of-age story arc—what is it anyway?
- The difference between backstory in midlife versus main story in coming of age.
- The ways that memoirs contribute to linguistically creative aging.
Jerry Waxler MS, LPC, writes, speaks, coaches and teaches about how to awaken human potential through life story writing. He is a therapist and the author of: Memoir Revolution, an inquiry into the social and psychological importance of the emerging genre; Learn to Write your Memoir in 4 Weeks, a step by step guide; and his latest memoir, How I Learned to Love the World, which traces his adult coming of age from the utopian promises of the sixties to the wisdom, kindness, and caring he’d been seeking all along.
Please send me the link.
How to get the link for this event? Thanks.
Hi Kathy,
This is an event for NAMW members only. NAMW provides a monthly member event and monthly group coaching session for NAMW members in addition to other membership benefits. You can learn about NAMW membership here: https://vnp4vsz62zz.c.updraftclone.com/become-a-member/.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
My immediate reaction was to put this in the trash, only because of my current problems with technology. But I am still thinking I want to write my own memoir, even if it’s pretty boring compared to this man’s story. But the main problem is that I have reached that onerous stage of life where my body is literally disassembling and I have to spend so much time keeping me alive, I don’t have time to write a memoir.It seems it’s just another one of my late life (I”m way past midlife at 82) ”fantasies’. But I am a good writer, poet, player in the world of words, so I keep the fantasy alive anyway. I see myself winning some kind of book award in my 80’s and becoming famous for doing something…anything really creative…in my 90’s. So who knows? Maybe I’ll be one of those REALLY LATE BLOOMERS,,,hmmm….
I’m looking forward to Jerry’s event on Sept 20th and hearing about his new book!
Franke
How do I sign up?
Hi Cathy,
This is an event for NAMW members only. NAMW provides a monthly member event and monthly group coaching session for NAMW members in addition to other membership benefits. You can learn about NAMW membership here: https://vnp4vsz62zz.c.updraftclone.com/become-a-member/.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
His agenda speaks directly to my memoir writing challenges. Will there be a recording. I can’t attend at the time of the program.
There is no link to sign-up…
Hi Michele,
This is an event for NAMW members only. NAMW provides a monthly member event and monthly group coaching session for NAMW members in addition to other membership benefits. You can learn about NAMW membership here: https://vnp4vsz62zz.c.updraftclone.com/become-a-member/.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW
I’m interested. Sign me up.
Hi Karen,
This is an event for NAMW members only. NAMW provides a monthly member event and monthly group coaching session for NAMW members in addition to other membership benefits. You can learn about NAMW membership here: https://vnp4vsz62zz.c.updraftclone.com/become-a-member/.
Kind Regards,
Erica
NAMW