Endorsements:
Working with Cindy over the past two and a half years has provided me
with the structure and continuity I needed to undertake and sustain a
book-length writing project. Cindy has been my guide and support throughout
the process. She has a unique ability to look at a first draft and see what
is there, rather than what is not. Her attention to the elements of the
craft of writing has helped me enormously in refining my writing. Her
constant insistence that I go deeper has pushed me to unearth meanings that
lay under the early drafts, so that my writing has become much more layered
and complex.
While she is always ready with ideas for spurring creativity, or moving
through blocks she does not have a fixed method, rather she brings to each of
our sessions a a highly individual and focused attention. In this way she
has been able to provide the kind of help or critique I needed when I needed
it. Her years of experience working with writers of all kinds has given her
a depth of understanding of the writing process has been invaluable to me.
Cindy is always terrific at jump starting me out of a slump. Writing can be
a very lonely endeavor; having the right person on the inside of the process
with you may mean the difference between quitting and sticking it out.
(L.Flynn, Oakland, California)
when I found cindy shearer and her offer "writing as art" via internet i was
very excited - what I read in the announcement did exactly match what I was
looking for. as an artist in concrete and visual poetry and in my profession
as a writing teacher and coach in germany, i was interested in mainly three
items:
- first i wanted to develop my own creative
process. since my work is interdisciplinary, i am always on the
edge and crossing borders of the arts - coming from fine arts
across with poetry with movement with sound a.s.o. i am always
scoping my own way, and i am looking for colleges and ways to
develop my craft and creative process.
- second, i also wanted to develop my work
as a writing teacher and coach, too. although i see a clear
distinction between my own art work and me supporting others in
their own expression, the two processes meet each other within a
vivid person - me. so i was (and am) always looking for good
possibilities to develop my teaching and coaching skills, too.
- third i was looking for orientation and improvement of my professional
network. working as a writing- and creativity-teacher in germany is still
some kind of unusual. i am a free-lancer, going my own way, that is almost
unique, so there a very few models for my teaching, coaching and arts work.
now you have an idea about my hopes and
interests i carried inside, when I contacted cindy per email if she
wanted to work with me about three years ago. although language
still causes some troubles--I am so happy, that all my hopes and
expectations were fulfilled in my work with cindy. even more: in her
i found the very sensitive, competent, respectful, honest and
encouraging teacher i was looking for but probably not able to
define so. in this she is also a model of a colleague for me in my
teaching-profession, too.
i wish to continue working with cindy as long as possible and it
is one of my secret but strongest dreams once to come to s.f. and
join her present courses.
thank you from the depth of my heart, cindy.
(k. hof, hamburg germany)
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