Marjorie Maffett, M.A., CCC-SLP has found her voice, identity, refuge, solidarity, and clarity through art-making. And she loves to talk with people. She has not kept much of the works she has made, historically, and for some time she did not really know why. Then, she began to understand: she regards the piece itself as an ephemeral by-product. The real value of the work is in the process of making it—finding joy in the unfolding that happens along the way. Sometimes unexpected things happen, requiring flexibility and a beginner’s mind!

Marjorie began teaching at age 15 while working as a lifeguard. She taught swim lessons for many years to children and adults and found her passion for highlighting people’s strengths and bringing additional confidence to the journey of learning through teaching new skills. Starting at age 9 caring for and training her own dogs, and others in the neighborhood something she does to this day, her roots in understanding behavior are deep. She is always looking for the “why” for every behavior that occurs. Now, 11 years into her career as a speech-language pathologist, Marjorie has brought all of her existing passions together with the Wordshop.

Marjorie believes communication and experiential art making are essential to human experience, it unites us, and in making, there is learning about making mistakes, finding our intuition, building confidence, absolutely passionate about this. Her goal is to provide comprehensive communication therapy by actively inviting creativity into her therapeutic process. Helping all children regardless of ability or background find their most confident voices is what Wordshop is all about.