Writing in Small Groups: The 4color Way

by June Gillam

Writing in Small Groups the 4color Way lays out how to build a Cooperative Inquiry group to create a super support group of writers. Conceived by pioneers in the field of participatory research, Cooperative Inquiry is a system whereby people interested in learning about a topic get together and form a question about the topic. Then they come up with a practical plan for each participant to go out and "test" the question by their actions. After the individual actions are complete, they meet back up, and each person presents what s/he did and what s/he learned. Then the group makes meaning from their combined experiences. These meanings are used as a basis for planning another action cycle, continuing in this recursive way for as long as the group chooses. The individual writer is always balancing what is going on inside the self and what is going on outside the self. In this book, Cooperative Inquiry is combined with other approaches such as the unique 4color reflection process, shaped to fit the needs of writers, based on the author's doctoral research project and in her teaching writing at a California Community College.

100 pages, Paperback

Published July 12, 2017

About the author

June Gillam writes award-winning crime fiction exploring the shadow side of humanity, chasing her obsession to figure out what makes ordinary people mad enough to kill. Her books explore topics like women’s empowerment, racism, greedy land development and intergenerational trauma.

A native of the Central Valley, June lives cradled between California’s Coastal Range and the Sierra Nevada mountains. A co-founder of Gold Country Writers and San Joaquin Valley Writers, she also belongs to Capitol Crimes, Sacramento Chapter of Sisters in Crime; Northern California Publishers & Authors; and Town Square Writers and was honored by the San Joaquin Valley Writers branch of the CA Writers Club with the establishment of the biannual June Gillam Award for Excellence in fiction, memoir or poetry.

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