Your Workshops | Forum for Amherst Writers Affiliates

Archival Post: Pricing Online Groups

by Kate Frank | May 9, 2025 | Marketing and Promoting, Planning and Preparing, Uncategorized, Your Workshops

Hello! I’m sharing a conversation here from 2020, started by Laurie Z. Baron, about what to charge for online groups. It was a worthy discussion then and perhaps due for an update about what our practices are now in 2025. Laurie started the conversation this...

Recommendations for Using Apple Dictation

by Mae Stewart | Apr 28, 2025 | Resources, Your Workshops

Hi, I’m recovering from a catastrophic stroke that I had in Aug ’24 that affected my dominant side. My question is geared toward using Apple Dictation (or any other assist) while leading or participating in a workshop. I keep thinking that toggling back...

Workshop Payments

by Marjorie Ackerman | Apr 12, 2025 | Planning and Preparing

Hello All – I’m curious how facilitators handle registrations and collect payment for workshops when you don’t have a website. Any suggestions?

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...

Starting a new Theme workshop [edited]

by Sandra LaPolla | Mar 16, 2025 | Planning and Preparing, Staging and Managing, Your Workshops

Greetings, all. I have been a facilitator for a few years and I love the AWA method. I keep trying to think of ways to get workshops out there as apparently where I live is the proverbial desert. To cut right to the chase, I was thinking to lead workshops geared...

Power of Story: The Caregiver Project

by Susan Wingert | Jan 8, 2025 | Marketing and Promoting, Resources

Peregrine XXXVII: The Caregiving Issue “Perhaps equally certain as death and taxes, caregiving falls into the category of an obligation that most people will be called upon to perform at some point in their lives,” write Peregrine editors Jan Haag, Carla...