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
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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.
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