A warm welcome to our new subscribers! This is the GAB Gazette, a highlight reel from the world of Guided Autobiography.
In this Newsletter
Announcements: GAB Fest registration
Board Update: Society for Nonprofits membership
Featured GABBER: Wendy Bancroft
Booklist: on writing, to heal
the Business: tax prep
Article Roundup: Nancy Sharp in Washington Post article
Collaboration Opportunities: GAB book launch team!
Community poll: Counting total GAB students for 2023
Announcements
Registration is open for GAB Fest! Join us Saturday, 3/23 for a day of GAB. Featuring story sharing, a guest speaker from the Birren Center and time to socialize, GAB-fest Glendale/Pasadena offers past and current GAB students a day to meet up and have fun! Space is limited so reserve your ticket now: https://www.gabseattle.com/event-details-registration/gab-fest-glendale-pasadena
Sponsorships for this event are available, please contact Amy Chen at amy@gabseattle.com for details.
Board Update
The Birren Center is now a member of the Society for Nonprofits, one of the oldest and largest nonprofit management support organizations in the country. Thanks to their support, the board now has access to funding opportunities and resources that support successful management practices.
Featured GABBER
Wendy Bancroft is our featured GABBER this month. Wendy has been helping people to tell their stories for forty years, and has been involved with GAB for ten.
“I love what I see in front of me. I love people sharing and being inspired by each other and feeling a freedom to share intimate parts of their life with people who not long ago at all, were strangers.”
To learn more about Wendy’s legacy as a storyteller and facilitator, and one of the first to offer GAB online, read the full feature here: Wendy Bancroft Featured GABBER
Booklist
Handling the Truth: on the writing of memoir by Beth Kephart
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise Desalvo
Based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing.
the Business
If your GAB classes are run as part or all of a small business, the US Chamber of Commerce released a helpful article to inform your tax season planning: https://www.uschamber.com/co/run/finance/early-tax-season-planning
Article Roundup
How will you be remembered? Here’s how to adopt a ‘legacy’ mindset (our own Nancy Sharp was interviewed in this article!)
Five Reasons to Incorporate Food into Your Writing This Year
Calls for Collaboration
Join the GAB Anthology launch team! Click the Google form to sign up: Launch Team Signup Form
We’re looking for fans of the Birren Center anthology series who are willing to complete small weekly tasks during the months of February and March that support the book launch. For example: request it at your library, share the Amazon link on social media, or leave a review.
One member of the launch team will receive a special signed copy of the book.
Community Poll
Help the Birren Center Board apply for grants by giving us an idea of how many people took a GAB class last year.