Sometimes the hardest part isn't what we're feeling. It's finding the words for it.
Lingwell is a guided conversation that helps you find language for what you're going through, and carry it into the conversations that matter.
Try LingwellFor organizations →Say what you can. Leave with words that fit.
There is nothing to prepare. You can begin with anything.
For the moments when you know it matters and can't yet say it.
People come to Lingwell at the edge of something they need to say.
What people said after using it.
"It would be the conversation before the conversation. It would get you ready."
Anthony"It helped me name what I was feeling, which made it much easier to share and explain those feelings to others."
Nicole"It helped me put some space between me and the problem."
Lingwell userBuilt from twenty years of work with language and experience.
The work began in 2009 with Writer Corps, a writing program for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and grew into shelters, prisons, cancer-support settings, classrooms and refugee and immigrant communities. Lingwell brings that guided process into a form people can use privately, on their own time.
It was developed through Vanderbilt University's innovation ecosystem, with National Science Foundation support.
A language scholar, writer and interdisciplinary artist whose work for more than twenty years has explored how language organizes thought, perception and meaning, especially in circumstances shaped by trauma, illness, uncertainty and change.
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Clinics, programs, schools, and employers can make Lingwell available to a defined group, with a starting scope and terms agreed in advance.
Start with how you feel.
You don't need to know why yet, or how to explain it. You only need somewhere to begin.
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