Joanna Young

Current

Freelance Writer at The Calm Space
Director at Powerful Web Content
Workshop Leader at Absorbing Writing

Writing Coach at Confident Writing

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Past

Participant at SOBCon
Manager at Scottish Executive
Manager at Scottish Community Diet Project

Project leader at Healthy Castlemilk

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Education

The University of Glasgow
University of Oxford

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

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Joanna Young’s Summary

Writing coaching: feedback, support, mentoring and coaching to help peopel write with confidence. Specialist in non-fiction, business writing, blog writing.

Writing: writing online to build community, provide writing tips and virtual coaching. Write, publish and edit the Confident Writing blog (listed as one of top 10 blogs for writers.)

Writing workshops and retreats: twice yearly programme of events in Sardinia, Italy

Web training and support: help to small businesses in Scotland to set up their own blog based website. Website set up plus support to get started, and help finding the right words for home and about pages, introductory articles, blog posts etc

Writing Services: helping businesses in Cowal area of Scotland to write business letters, grant proposals and reports, web copy, training brochures and promotional materials.

Joanna Young’s Specialties:

writing coach, confidence coach, life coach, NLP practitioner, blogging, blog set up, building online communities, writing with rapport, conversational writing, editing web content, deep editing, writing workshops, business writing, speech writing, supporting adult learners

Joanna Young’s Experience

Freelance Writer

The Calm Space

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)
Director

Powerful Web Content

(Online Media industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Training, skills and support to help people create powerful web content. Support for small businesses, groups, coaches & consultants in Scotland to set up and run a blog based website - with confidence. Training on how to adapt your writing style and communication approach for new media. Coaching for bloggers to achieve their online publishing goals.
Workshop Leader

Absorbing Writing

(Writing and Editing industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Workshop leader with Emma Bird (How To Italy). Writing workshops in Sardinia, Italy in September/October and April/May.

4 day writing weekends; 2 day workshops focussed on writing to promote your own business; 1 day workshop for expats who want to blog about their expat life or promote their business
Writing Coach

Confident Writing

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Coaching and mentoring; feedback and critiques; editing of web and published content to help people:

find their writing voice
communicate more effectively
achieve their writing goals
trust in the power of their own words

Supporting people who are writing in business (reports, e-mails); promoting their business; creating powerful online content (blogs, website content); publishing books to promote powerful ideas (leadership, coaching philosophy)
Participant

SOBCon

(Writing and Editing industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Manager

Scottish Executive

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)

January 1997 — June 2007 (10 years 6 months)

10 years experience of working with the civil service taught me the importance of writing that is: accurate, brief, concise. It matters within an organisation of this size - because we need to communicate with each other day in, day out, and people are drowning in information overload. And it matters because of the communication with the public: explaining in clear, simple terms what policies and services are about and why they matter
Manager

Scottish Community Diet Project

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

June 1996 — January 1997 (8 months)

The start up of the Scottish Community Diet Project - still going strong :-) - set up to bring together the power of community based organisations who were working to tackle the problem of food poverty in Scotland
Project leader

Healthy Castlemilk

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 1991 — June 1996 (5 years 6 months)

Helping to set up this innovative community health project in Castlemilk, Glasgow, with the main aim this: to give people in Castlemilk more say over their own health.

Loads of learning points - about the subject matter (especially food and poverty) but mainly about the importance of giving people more say... and the importance of treating people with respect

Joanna Young’s Education

The University of Glasgow

MPH , Public Health , 1992 — 1994

Particular interest in community health issues based on experience running community health project in Castlemilk, Glasgow
University of Oxford

BA , Philosophy and Modern Languages (German) , 1984 — 1988

Additional Information

Joanna Young’s Websites:

Joanna Young’s Interests:

blogging and social media, photography and flickr, walking in the west coast of Scotland, culture of Highlands and Islands, family history, learning European languages (French, Spanish, Italian), learning Gaelic