Women Returning To Learning (Fork In The Road Book)

Fork in the Road: A Companion for Women Who Are Going Back to School (And Those Who Want To), is designed to help women who want to go back to school, but feel they don't have the supports or tools to do it. It is, as our cover asserts, a holistic approach. We include stories of our own experience, guided meditations, affirmations, in addition to concrete advice about how to process information well and use it effectively to achieve success in school. In doing all this, our book seeks to feed the body, soul and mind of the burgeoning scholar, enabling ideas to spring not merely from the head, but from a whole being. We offer cutting-edge, creative ways of conceptualizing the learning and writing process and, in so doing, simplify these tasks, making them more doable, less ominous and much more enjoyable. We believe in the radical notion that, as composer Stephen Sondheim said, "life is company," and that scholarship, when approached in this way, is transformed from a solitary task into a fun, exciting adventure. From this can emerge a whole world of creativity and accomplishment beyond one's wildest dreams. We want to help women gather their inner resources, shore up safety, and access their whole being in order to embody the experience of going back to school. Our goal is to help women learn to draw in information in a full way, to process it and then to release it back into the world, touched and ultimately transformed by their own unique perspective. Learning, we contend, is like taking a deep breath and then exhaling and breathing your soul, your energy into the world......