Workshop Core Values and Educational Context

WORKSHOP CORE VALUES

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The Narrative Fiction Workshop (NFW) is organized around 10 teaching modules and 5 educational contexts. It is directed and run by writer Christos Chrissopoulos following the CAA/AWP teaching standards for Creative Writing. The NFW makes no distinction between narrative genres. It offers participants a synthetic overview of the writing process, combining writing practice with theory on the novel, essay, criticism, short-prose and non-fiction writing.     

WORKSHOP EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS

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A personal and philosophical focus or context gives participants opportunities to explore their identity and writing. The development of the learning spirit inside each participant comes from the heart and mind connection that is revealed through each participant's reflection, values, and ways of knowing.

A social, cultural, and historical focus or context gives participants opportunities to explore relationships with others, community, culture, customs, other ways of knowing, national and international events and issues, and the history of humanity and art.

An imaginative and literary focus or context gives participants opportunities to use their intuition and imagination to explore alternative worlds and possibilities; different types of classical and contemporary genres including fantasy, science fiction, and humour; and particular authors. How do I use my imagination and intuition and that of others to understand and relate to people, the community, the world, and society in a positive way? How do I foster imaginative ideas of self and others? How do I use intuitive hunches to support creative problem solving or inquiry approaches?

A communicative focus or context gives participants opportunities to explore different methods, forms, and issues related to language, communication, and the mass media. How do I make sense of and communicate with the world? How do I support communication with differing audiences? How do I know if communication is effective?

An environmental and technological focus or context gives participants opportunities to explore the natural and constructed world including the landscape of Kefalonia. How do I describe, analyze, and shape the world around me? How does that natural and  technological world affect and shape me?