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So What IS This Water Cooler Thing Anyway?

by Matthew Curlewis | Jun 3, 2025 | Finessing and Improving, Marketing and Promoting, Planning and Preparing, Staging and Managing, Your Workshops

Hello All, So, who doesn’t love an ‘origin story’, right? Here’s one for you. The idea for the Water Cooler arose one day during what should have been an AWA Marketing and Communications committee meeting. But since three other members couldn’t make it, it just left...

Archival Post: How to Encourage Robust Feedback

by Kate Frank | May 12, 2025 | Finessing and Improving, Your Workshops

Teegan Mannion started this excellent discussion with this opener: “Hi there. I’m noticing that in zoom workshops, as a whole, participants seem to be less eager to offer feedback. I’m struggling with how to manage a group in which some people consistently offer...

I’m saying NO to Generative AI. What say you?

by Matthew Curlewis | Apr 7, 2025 | Finessing and Improving, Staging and Managing, Your Workshops

So, I’m well aware that AI is something of a volatile topic these days. Saying the wrong thing can lose you friends, and perhaps even faster: win you enemies. I’m seeking to do neither. But as an organisation that is passionate about supporting people to express...

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by Admin4Site | Dec 23, 2024 | Finessing and Improving, Marketing and Promoting, Planning and Preparing, Staging and Managing, Uncategorized, Your Workshops

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Workshop-related questions from the first Water Cooler

by Matthew Curlewis | Oct 5, 2024 | Finessing and Improving, Marketing and Promoting, Planning and Preparing, Staging and Managing, Your Workshops

As these questions are good conversation starters, I thought I’d share a few of them here. • How do we find the time to lead workshops when our lives are overwhelming? • I’ve led a few workshops for WAW, but I’d like to begin my own workshops. Do I...

Hearing Challenged Writers Online

by Susan (Deepam) Wadds | Sep 30, 2024 | Finessing and Improving

How do you deal with those writers in a workshop who have difficulty hearing others?
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