Using a Workshop Experience Inventory When Workshops Go Wrong

Using a Workshop Experience Inventory When Workshops Go Wrong

Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash Today’s post is by author, editor and book coach Alissa Butterworth. Over the last two decades, I’ve participated in and moderated many workshops and critique groups. I will never forget stopping in the bathroom after an MFA workshop session concluded, only to run into a classmate whose work was just discussed. She’d sequestered herself there, sobbing. Something in the workshop we’d just attended had touched a deep n…