Jo Ann Fore leads women on a heart-journey into a new land. A place where painful life experiences serve as a path to a greater purpose, and redemption becomes more important than explanation.

Jo Ann believes all women can live an abundant life, but that they must be free from any lingering emotional clutter. She offers hope, inspiration, and practical tools for the journey into emotional health.

These workshops are available for women’s events, live and online. Click here for a PDF One Sheet that tells you all about the workshops and offers testimonials from industry leaders as well as workshop attendees.  To bring one of these workshops to your area, contact JoAnn here for more information or to schedule an event. 

Write Where It Hurts: Writing as a Healing Tool

Many women use journaling as a form of self-therapy, but it often amounts to little more than unburdening. Without divine intervention, journaling in itself doesn’t usually lead to a genuine healing connection. Write Where It Hurts gives women a practical technique. They learn to use expressive writing together with biblical truth to reconcile painful experiences with God’s purpose for their lives. This workshop offers simple, yet transformative writing exercises in a safe and supportive environment.

Memories are powerful. Negative memories, toxic. Repressed trauma and emotional grief deeply affect a woman’s heart, relationships, and life. Write Where It Hurts grants women the much-needed permission to sift through our life experiences for the deeper meaning. The workshops are designed for any woman, regardless of writing experience.

Participants learn to:

A Purpose for My Pain: Healing Begins at Perspective

Like the disciples who asked Jesus about a man blind from birth, sometimes we need to blame someone for the pain in our lives. But we have the wrong question. Rather than, “Why me?” we need to ask, “What’s next?” This workshop, with writing exercises, challenges women to reengage life from a divine perspective. God can use all things for good–even pain and suffering. Women learn how their lives are providentially connected with others and how to invest in the lives of other hurting women.

Participants learn to:

• examine life experiences from a new perspective
• develop the ability to see God working in your life
• focus on what matters
• transform pain into life-defining purpose
• make a difference in life

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Upcoming Events

(At the events noted with *, Jo Ann is a presenter.)

2/19/11 – Write Where It Hurts Workshop – Discover Life, Johnson City, TN*

3/8/11 – JumpStart Mastermind Expert Chat*

4/27-4/30/11 – Inspired Women Event, Dallas, TX*

5/9-5/13/11 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference, Ridgecrest, NC (http://altongansky.typepad.com/blueridge/2010/03/jo-ann-fore-another-success-story.html)

5/18/11 Book Launch: Inspired Women Succeed*

5/24/11 JumpStart Mastermind NEW GROUP BEGINS*

6/10-6/12/11 – Sandi Krakowski Book Tour, Chicago, Illinois

7/12/11 JumpStart Mastermind NEW GROUP BEGINS*

7/26/11 JumpStart Mastermind Expert Chat*

8/11-8/14/11  Getaway-To-Write Retreat, Buladean, NC

9/2-9/4/11 Write Where It Hurts Workshop, Authentic Life Retreat, Johnson City, TN*

9/22-9/25/11 –  American Christian Fiction Writers Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO (www.acfw.com)

9/28-9/30/11 National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs TeleSummit*

9/30-10/1/11 Book Bound Workshop, Nashville, TN

10/19-10/22/11 Personal Retreat, Palm Springs, California

10/26-10/29/11 – Christian Prophetic Poets & Writers Retreat, McDonough, GA* (www.schoolofthescribe.com)

10/29/11 Girls Night Out, North Augusta, SC

11/9 – 11/12/11 – Lifeway Leadership Forum, Nashville, TN (http://www.lifeway.com/event/27/)

2/18/2012  Milligan Ladies Conference, Johnson City, TN

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