JField Foundation Blog: Field Trip

Jennifer Field

JenniferField — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:51:16 +0000

The J Field Foundation has just become a member of NAPW National
Association of Professional Women.
jfieldfoundation.org

Jennifer Field

JenniferField — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:32:53 +0000

Jennifer Field

JenniferField — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:34:21 +0000

There is so much work that goes into creating a keynote, finding
connections, continuous work on a website, and blogging!
I get very overwhelmed at times… brings me to tears!!
At the same time, I am greatly enjoying helping and inspiring people
by performing my one woman show, A Distant Memory,
about my recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury.
I love it more than anything!! MY MISSION IS TO HELP!!
Jennifer Field

Jennifer Field

JenniferField — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:46:05 +0000

I just spent two intense days with Lou Heckler, a speaking coach from
Gainesville, FL!
We are creating a keynote performance!!
Jennifer Field

reply to Lou…

JenniferField — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:27:06 +0000

Jennifer Field

JenniferField — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:06:34 +0000

I met with Jane LaPointe, who is a knowledgeable friend on non
profits. In the near future I see the mission statement of the JField
Foundation coming true. I want to inspire, Inform, and Support people
dealing with TBI.
Jennifer Field
jfieldfoundation.org

Jennifer Field: Inspirational Speaker

JenniferField — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:23:59 +0000

I am continuing to restructure my website/blog… I want to create a
place for people to go to get information/help to the harrowing
journey of a traumatic brain injury.
I want to inspire patients to never give up… there is always
something to do and place to turn!

Jennifer Field
jfieldfoundation.org

Jennifer Field

JenniferField — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:21:07 +0000

I am facing the hard decision of how to move forward in my life…
I have just had a tumultuous period of time in a relationship with a
man… all I want to feel is safe and secure in my life. I want to
perform my one woman show: A Distant Memory, to many audiences,
providing a message of hope and inspiration… if I could just find
that hope and inspiration within myself again!?!?

Jennifer Field
jfieldfoundation.org

Jennifer Field: Inspirational Speaker

JenniferField — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:38:02 +0000

For almost 18 years, I have been fighting my way back from a traumatic
brain injury!!
Within the next week I am going to rename my blog: Field Trip…
documenting the long, and sometimes painful journey my mother and I
have taken.

A Distant Memory: One Woman Show
JField Foundation

A Distant Memory as seen in The Sun Chronicle News

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:58:37 +0000

Sun Chronicle article: A Distant Memory

Jennifer Field and her one Woman Show a Distant Memory were featured in the Sun Chronicle. Here is the Sun Chronicle News Article reprint of “A Distant Memory“ (in pdf format).

This is a reprint of the Sun Chronicle article about A Distant Memory featuring J Field Foundation founder Jennifer Field, from October 10, 2007. The original article can be seen online here.

Click here to see the A Distant Memory Show Schedule at the JField Foundation website, or click here to contact the J Field Foundation to schedule A Distant Memory Show at your venue.

Text of The Sun Chronicle article:

‘A Distant Memory’

BY MICHAEL GELBWASSER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

When Jennifer Field attended Wheaton College, she needed extra help and time on her tests.

And Evelyn Staudinger Lane was more than happy to provide it.

A near-fatal car crash at age 17 put Field in a coma – “not like the Hollywood version,” she says – for two months, and left her brain damaged. She spent the next decade, including her college years, rehabilitating. The injury continues to affect her.

Lane, an associate professor of art history, says she can relate. Her husband suffered a serious head injury in a car accident of his own. On Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Field will perform an autobiographical one-woman show, “A Distant Memory,” at Wheaton, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in art history in 2000. She graduated magna cum laude. The show, which opened in October 2005, follows Field from her 11 years as a champion equestrian, to her Nov. 17, 1992, accident, in which her car slid on an icy New Hampshire road and crashed into a tractor-trailer, to learning to walk, talk and use her right arm again, to traveling the globe trying therapies.

While at Wheaton, Field hopes to reunite with one of her inspirations, Lane, her former art history professor and adviser.

The two still keep in touch.

“She has really been an incredible role model to me,” Field said. “She gave me a lot of extra help, unlimited time on examinations. We just bonded.”

“I can’t wait to see Professor Lane.”

Two of Lane’s classes will be in the audience, partly because the admiration is mutual. “She says I’m a role model. She’s really a role model for me,” Lane said.

Lane says Field was among 15 Wheaton students who helped organize and write a 140-page senior seminar catalog of 75 Wheaton artworks. The college now has a collection of three catalogs, Lane said.“She was an inspiration when she was here,” Lane said. “To have her come back and meet with a new group of students …”

Field says she is still affected by the injury to this day.

“I have trouble with words sometimes. Writing is difficult. If something is hard for you, it would be 10 times as hard for me,” she said. “My whole purpose for this show is to help people, to be an inspiration.”

Now a poet, painter and an acting student in California, Field said she got the idea for her show after seeing the one-man show, “Time Flies When You’re Alive” with Paul Linke.

Writing helped her with her emotional recovery from her crash.

“I needed to have a purpose,” Field said. “What I really was subconsciously trying to find was the feeling I had being on a horse.

“Instead of training my horse, I now was training myself.”

Thursday’s show is a new version of her first one.

“It’s like putting my whole life out there,” Field said. “A lot of people would be scared to do that. I don’t know why.”

For more information, visit www.jfieldfoundation.org.