AWC Workshop: Tripping Down Memory Lane with Dr. Kim Shackelford

The AWC is proud to present “Tripping Down Memory Lane” with Dr. Kim Shackelford. The workshop is free for members and will take place on Saturday, July 22nd, beginning at 10 AM. “Tripping Down Memory Lane” is expected to last for two hours.

Here is the official description of the workshop:

“We all have stories. My career has been in social work. It is understandable that I love to hear the stories of others. As a professor, my students have often said they learned more from my stories in the classroom than the textbook. I do love to tell stories! My new path is to capture my stories by writing short essays, memoirs, and poetry.

Please join me in looking at the elements of writing about your memories. We will be telling and writing about the important memories that you hold within you but need to be shared. I have recently published a collection of memories with two good friends and writers, and started Beach Bards Publishing, LLC in Gulf Shores, AL. You can learn about this at beachbardspublishingllc.com and ACT II: Footprints in Gulf shores is available on Amazon.”

Dr. Kimberly K. Shackelford, LCSW, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Auburn University. She has a BS from Iowa State University, an MSW from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Leadership from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Shackelford’s career has included retiring from Mississippi Department of Human Services – Division of Family and Children’s Services as Deputy Director and achieving full professorship at the University of Mississippi with many years in the fields of child welfare and child advocacy.

Dr. Shackelford is a co-author of two books with Dr. Josephine Pryce and Col. David Pryce – Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Child Welfare Professional and The Costs of Courage: Combat Stress, Warriors, and Family Survival. Her research areas are traumatic stress, service-learning in international community development, child welfare supervision, and social justice with publications in the Journal of Policy Practice and Research, Child Welfare Journal, Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education: Professional Development, among others. Dr. Shackelford has written child welfare training curriculum for many states along with Belize, Cape Town, South Africa, and Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Shackelford has recently co-authored ACT II: Footprints in Gulf Shores A Collection of Stories, Memoirs, and Poetry with Nancy Lawler Dickhute and Heidi Lyght-Schmidt. She is co-owner, along with Nancy and Heidi, of Beach Bards Publishing, LLC.

She has had two memoir short stories published in the Birmingham Arts Journal: The Mess Vol. 16 Issue 2, and Alarming Inspiration Vol. 16 Issue 4. She is a board member of the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative and a member of the Alabama State Poetry Society.  

To register for Dr. Shackelford’s workshop, please complete the Google Form below. You will be sent login credentials before the event: