{"id":129,"date":"2013-08-25T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2024-05-09T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:40:58","slug":"teaching-and-coaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"Teaching and Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mary-250px.jpg\" alt=\"Mary-250px\" width=\"250\" height=\"261\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 24px; -webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\">Mary Allen is available for one-on-one writing coaching. \u00a0She also\u00a0teaches regularly in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and in many other venues. \u00a0For information on upcoming classes, including a monthly spiritual writing class in Iowa City, send an email to <a style=\"-webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\" href=\"mailto:awakeinthedreamhouse@gmail.com?subject=Teaching%20and%20Coaching\">awakeinthedreamhouse@gmail.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; -webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\">A student, Kim Herzog, comments on Mary Allen&#8217;s teaching:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mary Allen put twelve strangers in a room, and in two days created a positive, healthy, safe and collaborative environment that pulled the group into a cohesive, supportive, encouraged group of writers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; -webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\">Mary Allen has spoken and written widely about issues affecting writers, including the on-going challenge of finding time to write in today&#8217;s busy world. To listen to a podcast of Mary Allen talking about making time to write, click here.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px; -webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\"><br \/>\n<a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writinguniversity.org\/podcast\/mary-allenbending-the-spoon-writing-as-a-path-to-mindfulness-and-other-spiritual-practices\">Click this link<\/a> to hear a podcast of Mary Allen talking about writing as a spiritual practice, as well as giving examples and ideas on how beginning writers can nurture and cultivate their gifts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; -webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\"><span class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mary-Allen-Edit-like-a-Zen-Master.mp3\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0a talk Mary Allen gave\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">on maintaining peace, confidence, and inner balance during the editing process,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">Edit Like a Zen Master, delivered at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px; -webkit-hyphens: none; moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\"><br \/>\nFor more about Mary Allen&#8217;s writing coaching visit <a title=\"Iowa Writing Coach\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\">www.iowawritingcoach.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Allen is available for one-on-one writing coaching. \u00a0She also\u00a0teaches regularly in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and in many other venues. \u00a0For information on upcoming classes, including a monthly spiritual writing class in Iowa City, send an email to awakeinthedreamhouse@gmail.com. A student, Kim Herzog, comments on Mary Allen&#8217;s teaching: &#8220;Mary Allen put twelve strangers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/?page_id=129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching and Coaching<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}