Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates - Tina Welling - Books - New World Library - 9781608688319 - October 20, 2022
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Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates

Tina Welling

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Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates

Uniquely revealing, instructive, and inspiring life lessons learned by a novelist and writing teacher over ten years of teaching weekly classes on journaling to the inmates at her local county jail

A decade ago, Tina Welling began teaching journaling workshops for the mostly male inmates at the Teton County jail in Jackson, Wyoming, where she lives. What began as a little-understood impulse on her part became a meaning-filled enterprise with surprising results.

Welling was floored by how much she had in common with the incarcerated: "It's just that they had been arrested and I had not." They talked and wrote about self-esteem, anger, forgiveness, compassion, personal power, codependency. Welling viscerally realized that "we teach what we need to know." She gave the men one hour a week to explore their inner lives; they gave her an unprecedented experience of intimacy and vulnerability. Because Welling was often not privy to the fates of the men she taught, she faced a principle found in many wisdom teachings: becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Replete with the kind of gorgeous writing for which Welling is acclaimed -- for example, she likens her path to teaching as "tracking a moose in snowfall" -- Tuesdays in Jail is part memoir, part riveting exploration of a world most of us will never experience, and wholly an enlightening and compelling read.


172 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 20, 2022
ISBN13 9781608688319
Publishers New World Library
Pages 172
Dimensions 202 × 133 × 14 mm   ·   218 g
Language English  

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