Since my last Blog, I have three presentations that may be of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of us live in Broken Bodies, in a Broken World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One way I found to manage my own Broken Body, was to get involved with health professionals and patients working within the area, i.e. pelvic pain. I published a few articles; and then got invited by Pelvic Pain Matters<\/a><\/strong> to present on How to Manage This <\/em>(no easy solutions, unfortunately.) For anyone interested on managing chronic health condition (and perhaps even pelvic pain in particular) you can have a look here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher Luna Press<\/a><\/strong> interviewed me for my short story collection LEARNING MONKEY AND CROCODILE<\/a><\/strong><\/em> here<\/a><\/em>. (Yes, I know, I have Covid lock-down hair.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, I presented at the behest of the Psychology of South Africa\u2019s (PsySSA)<\/a><\/strong> Climate and Environment Psychology group<\/em> (CEP). The topic? Writing fiction to tackle climate change: i.e. WRITING STORIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD. The presentation can be viewed here<\/a>, and it includes an inspiring contribution from Faeza Meyer<\/strong>, founder member of the African Water Commons Collective<\/strong> (AWCC<\/a>). \u00a0I have attached slides FYI too, as there was a technical hitch halfway through and no one got to see the outstanding cover Vincent Sammy<\/a><\/strong> did for WATER MUST FALL<\/strong>. A picture to represent our Broken World indeed, but with a woman emerging from the Earth to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women are our best and brightest hope for change <\/a>– let’s do what we can daily to lift their voices and participation in our society, wherever we may live. And to Halting Damage\/Earth Trauma and Healing, in these times of broken bodies within a Breaking Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And what heals and soothes better than WATER<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n May Water Fall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Water is Life<\/a>. Water For Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nick Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since my last Blog, I have three presentations that may be of interest. Many of us live in Broken Bodies, in a Broken World. One way I found to manage my own Broken Body, was to get involved with health professionals and patients working within the area, i.e. pelvic pain. I published a few articles; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,14],"tags":[45,46],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blogs","category-blog","tag-water","tag-water-must-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}