Experience, Education, Integrity

Terisa has been writing professionally in such roles as administrative, human resources, marketing, sales, independent living/rehabilitation support, and grief recovery facilitation. Her diverse industry experience includes pharmaceutical, civil service, petroleum energy, automotive, disability rehabilitation, medical-aesthetic and wellness spas, commercial interior design, and the performing arts. She opened and operated a business for 20 years and delights in knowing it is still running strong into its 34th year.

Along with her professional writing portfolio, Terisa’s writing has been published in literary magazines and broadcast on CBC Radio several times. She’s been an active participant in the Calgary Stroll of Poets and the poetry-spoken word series “Red-Mile Revenge” and she has won several poetry and writing contests including an honourable mention from the US periodical, Writer’s Digest Magazine, in their Annual Writing Contest. Terisa has been invited by The Writer’s Guild of Alberta and the Single Onion poetry group to read in Calgary and High River. She is currently researching and writing a multi-genre manuscript exploring her father’s WWII POW and post-WWII Soviet Refugee experiences.

Terisa graduated from the University of Calgary with a double major Bachelor’s degree in English – Creative Writing, and Religious Studies – The Nature of Religion. She feels privileged to have had her portfolio accepted in the Creative Writing Program and to study under the tutelage of Dr. Christopher Wiseman, now Professor Emeritus and Member to the Order of Canada. Following Dr. Wiseman’s nomination, Terisa was awarded the Laura Mae Stillings Scholarship for writing.

Terisa also has a diploma in Business Management, having studied business writing and public speaking under the guidance of Betty K. Cooper of Cooper Communications, one of Canada’s leading communications and broadcast specialists. As well, Terisa is a certified Grief Recovery Facilitator.

Business Ethics is defined as the critical, structured examination of how people and institutions should behave in the world of commerce – in particular, by exercising appropriate constraints on the pursuit of self-interest, or corporate profits, when the actions of individuals or firms affect others. The name ‘Write Intentions’ is taken from the second of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path, Right Intention, or right resolve. For oneself, for others:

“… one who practices (the dharma, including right intention) for both his own benefit and that of others…” — AN 7.64, Dhammaññu Sutta