Course Description

In this course, students learn specific and powerful strategies for decreasing writing anxiety and mitigating their anxiety response in the moment so that they can write successfully and with more ease. They also practice these strategies in a supported environment to solidify them and see drastic improvement in their ability to write while completing their school work.

Learning Objectives

When a learner completes this course, they will

  • Define writing anxiety in general and for themselves.

  • Practice noticing their anxiety come up without feeding it or allowing it to control their experience with writing.

Lessons

    1. Welcome

    1. What is Writing Anxiety?

    2. Defining Your Own Writing Anxiety

    3. Record Your Experience of Writing Anxiety

    1. What Does It Mean, and Why Does It Matter?

    2. Practice Noticing the Positive, Fun, or Interesting

    3. Check Yourself

    1. What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter?

    2. Strategy #1

    3. Practice 1

    4. Strategy #2

    5. Practice 2

    6. Strategy #3

    7. Understand Getting Ready Self-Statements

    8. Write Your Getting Ready Self-Statements

    9. Understand Activating Strategies Self-Statements

    10. Write Your Activating Strategies Self-Statements

    11. Understand Being Mindful Self-Statements

    12. Write Your Being Mindful Self-Statements

    13. Understand Taking Control Self-Statements

    14. Write Your Taking Control Self-Statements

    15. Understand Cherishing the Positive Self-Statements

    16. Complete Your Self-Statements

    1. Introduction

    2. Getting Ready

    3. Activating Strategies

    4. Do Some Writing!

    5. Being Mindful - Round 1

    6. Taking Control - Round 1

    7. Keep Going!

    8. Being Mindful - Round 2

    9. Taking Control - Round 2

    10. Next Step

    11. Being Mindful - Round 3

    12. Taking Control - Round 3

    13. Finish Up

    14. Cherishing the Positive

    15. Reflect

    1. Introduction

    2. Check-in

    3. Getting Ready

    4. Activating Strategies

    5. Working - Round 1

    6. Being Mindful - Round 1

    7. Taking Control - Round 1

    8. Working - Round 2

    9. Being Mindful - Round 2

    10. Taking Control - Round 2

    11. Working - Round 3

    12. Being Mindful - Round 3

    13. Taking Control - Round 3

    14. Working - Round 4

    15. Being Mindful - Round 4

    16. Taking Control - Round 4

    17. Working - Round 5

    18. Being Mindful - Round 5

    19. Taking Control - Round 5

    20. Cherishing the Positive

    21. Reflect

About this course

  • Free
  • 62 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

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