Writing, Procrastination and Resistance: How to Identify Your Funk and Move Through It

Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 12-1 p.m. EST

http://www.taaonline.net/TAATeleconferences/schedule_spring10.html#funk

Presented by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, a speaker in the field of faculty development and leadership, and author of, "The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul"

This one-hour teleconference is for faculty, post-docs and/or advanced graduate students who:
•Feel stuck and aren't making progress toward finishing your article, dissertation, or book
•Can't seem to produce unless a deadline is looming
•Feel like everyone else in your environment is moving forward while you're standing still
•Are experiencing a sense of dread because your third year review is around the corner and you know you haven't met your department's publication expectations
•Have recently had a critical third year review, promised yourself you would start writing more but haven't quite lived up to that promise
•Wonder regularly if you really want to be an academic
•Find yourself in a writing funk, but don't know why or how to get out of it
•Feel paralyzed because you haven't written in so long you don't know where to start
•Still can't figure out how your semesters fly by without progress on your research, writing, and publication

This teleconference will also help you:
1.Learn the behaviors that lead to writing productivity,
2.Understand the factors underlying persistent patterns of procrastination,
3.Identify individual forms of writing resistance,
4.Implement concrete strategies for moving around resistance,
5.Develop a community of support for difficult times

Participants of Rockquemore’s teleconference will receive a subscription to her weekly Monday Motivator e-mail to reinforce the concepts they learned in the teleconference and to encourage application and implementation. They will also receive access to a professional development discussion forum; a bibliography of professional development books, articles, and online resources; and access to online writing support and accountability groups.

Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD is an author and speaker in the field of faculty development and leadership. She spent the early years of her professional career climbing the academic ladder while writing about interracial families. She is author of Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (2001, 2007), Raising Biracial Children (2005), and over two-dozen articles and book chapters on multiracial youth. Kerry Ann’s research has been featured in numerous media outlets such as the New York Times and ABC’s 20/20. After Kerry Ann became a tenured professor (at the University of Illinois at Chicago), her focus shifted towards improving conditions for pre-tenure faculty by creating supportive communities for professional development, writing productivity, and work/life balance. Her award-winning work with under-represented faculty led to the publication of her most recent book The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul (2008). Kerry Ann now provides workshops for new faculty at colleges across the U.S., facilitates a popular online discussion forum for under-represented faculty, and works with a select group of new faculty each semester in her Faculty Success Program. She can be contacted via e-mail at KerryAnn@newfacultysuccess.com