A couple of years after returning to Stockholm, she organized, with the help of her husband, a free "pilot mingle workshop," spending 3000 Swedish Krona (about $440) on wine and snacks in exchange for participants' honest feedback.
I had slept in 9 different beds in 7 hotels and taught more than a dozen workshops, spending almost 24 hours a day with one of my closest friends.
When I first met him during the lunch break at the Boston workshop, he spent most of our conversation staring at the floor.
Even though leaders of sessions were selected for their expertise in a particular genre (a small irony, I suppose), the workshop was spent breaking down borders — or as David Young, a panelist from Oberlin College, preferred to call it, "stretching" them.
PAGE E1 'R' IS FOR RELAUNCH Sesame Workshop has spent two years and $14 million on its Web site, sesamestreet.org, to try to compete with companies like Disney and Nickelodeon for the eyeballs of younger Web surfers.
A graduate of USC and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy spent time throughout her childhood at her grandparents' home on Detroit's East Side.
Once I went to an art workshop and spent the weekend at a table next to someone who was doing the most amazing work.
The first day of the workshop was spent on presentations and brainstorming to find the best possible topics for the films, but also the most interesting ways of filming and producing the stories.
The rest of the first day of the workshop is spent in individual sessions with trainers and children, shaping the ideas into scenarios and storyboards that can be filmed and edited throughout this week.
And in Carmarthenshire, the LINKS workshop will spend their award of almost £194,000 on a support service for serving and ex-service personnel and their families.
