<span id="docs-internal-guid-95886d6e-7fff-394f-f31e-f0b873fbb5b4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>“Increasing Identification: How to Make Readers Embrace Your Character’s Goals"
A Writing Workshop w/ Carlos Allende Gonzalez, Ph.D.</b></span></font><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">During this practical workshop, we’ll discuss the importance of imposing a goal to motivate narrative engagement, the difference between empathy and sympathy, and how feelings of sympathy (i.e., compassion) provide direction to the readers' efforts. We’ll then practice what we learn using a "compassion cheat sheet.”</span></font> <br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b><u>TRIGGER WARNING:</u></b> There is a chance that you may experience some emotional discomfort as a consequence of reading stories presented during the workshop. The risk of emotional discomfort should not be higher than that coming from normal patterns of media consumption (i.e., reading or watching a sad story).<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PV Writes Together is a community writing event. Learn how to be part of the anthology </span><a href="https://www.pvld.org/pvwritestogether" title="" target="_self" style="white-space-collapse: collapse; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13px;">here.</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div></span>
A Writing Workshop w/ Carlos Allende Gonzalez, Ph.D.</b></span></font><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">During this practical workshop, we’ll discuss the importance of imposing a goal to motivate narrative engagement, the difference between empathy and sympathy, and how feelings of sympathy (i.e., compassion) provide direction to the readers' efforts. We’ll then practice what we learn using a "compassion cheat sheet.”</span></font> <br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b><u>TRIGGER WARNING:</u></b> There is a chance that you may experience some emotional discomfort as a consequence of reading stories presented during the workshop. The risk of emotional discomfort should not be higher than that coming from normal patterns of media consumption (i.e., reading or watching a sad story).<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PV Writes Together is a community writing event. Learn how to be part of the anthology </span><a href="https://www.pvld.org/pvwritestogether" title="" target="_self" style="white-space-collapse: collapse; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13px;">here.</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div></span>