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A little book with big ideas, the I Can book distills a unique and comprehensive definition of emotion literacy, a term coined by its author in 1992. In twelve brief, densely-written chapters, Pamela's manifesto captures and characterizes her concepts behind emotion literacy. The foundational basis for her theatrical, musical and literary works for Emotion Literacy Advocates, this plain-English book directly encourages self-transparency and full-spectrum communication. ""According to the language of feelings, we all have our own dictionary. Though feelings, in essence, are universal, our filters through which we know and express feelings can be unique. Have you read your dictionary today? What words can you add to your dictionary to pave the way for a deeper, more cooperative self-understanding that fuels the most resource-efficient attendance to needs?"" I Can book excerpt, p.48

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Pamela Sackett is one of the most original thinkers I have ever encountered in my career as a teaching artist. She sees the big picture and understands the emotional needs of children, their parents, their teachers and the communities surrounding them. In short, she understands our humanity and lack thereof. --Ted Sod, Director, Education Department Dramaturge, Roundabout Theatre, New York This simple, elegant and profound book invites the reader to better understand themselves and others without the need to pass through a massive quantity of text to find meaning and insights...what a gift! --Renee Smith, Director of Workplace Transformation of Governor's Results Washington Office and Founder of Human Workplace ...lovely, clear, deeper than it first appears, accessible, practical and beautifully written. --Dr. Trina Doerfler, D.C., N.D If you need to feel empowered to honor what's going on in your internal world, this is it. The I Can book lets you into twelve ways you can do exactly that. I've read it, and it's inspired some journaling sessions. It's deeply inspiring, reassuring, and expresses deep compassion. --Tiffany Hannibal, The Journaling Stan Podcast host I Can is really helpful and inspiring for people who are exploring their inner world and finding it quite a daunting task like me. Sometimes we feel something but we don't quite understand it until someone speaks it out. The I Can book feels like that voice to me now. --Peiqing Lu I did not expect to learn and relate to so many things in I Can. I regret not reading this beautiful book sooner. I loved it...it inspired me in many ways...I could finally understand what emotion literacy actually is. --Kaivalya Jain

Pamela Sackett is one of the most original thinkers I have ever encountered in my career as a teaching artist. She sees the big picture and understands the emotional needs of children, their parents, their teachers and the communities surrounding them. In short, she understands our humanity and lack thereof. --Ted Sod, Director, Education Department Dramaturge, Roundabout Theatre, New York This simple, elegant and profound book invites the reader to better understand themselves and others without the need to pass through a massive quantity of text to find meaning and insights...what a gift! --Renée Smith, Director of Workplace Transformation of Governor's Results Washington Office and Founder of Human Workplace ...lovely, clear, deeper than it first appears, accessible, practical and beautifully written. --Dr. Trina Doerfler, D.C., N.D If you need to feel empowered to honor what's going on in your internal world, this is it. The I Can book lets you into twelve ways you can do exactly that. I've read it, and it's inspired some journaling sessions. It's deeply inspiring, reassuring, and expresses deep compassion. --Tiffany Hannibal, The Journaling Stan Podcast host I Can is really helpful and inspiring for people who are exploring their inner world and finding it quite a daunting task like me. Sometimes we feel something but we don't quite understand it until someone speaks it out. The I Can book feels like that voice to me now. --Peiqing Lu I did not expect to learn and relate to so many things in I Can. I regret not reading this beautiful book sooner. I loved it...it inspired me in many ways...I could finally understand what emotion literacy actually is. --Kaivalya Jain

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Pamela Sackett is the principal artist, producer and founder of Emotion Literacy Advocates (ELA). In 1992, Pamela was the guest poet for a conference, performing from her book ""Speak of the Ghost,"" the writing of which unlocked a deeper understanding of her early teen trauma experience, how it wove its way into her adult life and how her self-communication clarity emboldened her to further liberate herself from enervating family patterns. At that same conference, Pamela also facilitated a self-reflective writing workshop for which she dreamt up the term ""emotion literacy"" to identify the workshop's aim. There, she performed excerpts from her monologue book series as prompts for exploring the nature of inner narrative and its bearing on selfhood and society. Over time, the responses to Pamela's writing, performances and workshops buoyed her endeavor to speak out about the importance of language, ways of thinking, being and doing. The trajectory of Pamela's work continues as she collaborates with visual artists around the globe to create and produce arts-based learning tools to foster greater self and social awareness. Pamela's body of collaborative work sheds light on topics including perception, self-trust, uncertainty and vulnerability, grief, self-authority, brain part imperatives, feeling-favoritism & feeling-equity, behavior-centrism, mental health and language. Pamela's original musical, theatrical and rhythmic-prose-style storytelling and presentations are embraced by social service agencies, special interest organizations, incorporated into high school and university curricula, local government agency programs and broadcast media.In addition to ""Speak of the Ghost: In the Name of Emotion Literacy"" and ""Two Minutes To Shine"" her theatrical monologue book series (Samuel French, NY), Pamela's other book titles are ""Saving the World Solo,"" ""Booing Death: with Shpilkes & Rhyme,"" and ""NEED FEEL WRITE: Storied Picture Prompts for the Brave Journaler.""To publicly acknowledge Pamela's writings, productions and outreach on behalf of emotion literacy advocacy, Pamela was presented with Antioch University's Distinguished Alumni Award (2013).

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