A writing workshop must begin somewhere.
Some skills are difficult to teach.
Ethics, for example, is hard to teach and learn because ethics is another name for character and character requires virtue. I hold to the notion that writing, and learning about it, and doing it, is as much a matter of character as it is skill in the technical sense. It is an open question whether we can actually teach the kind of character that writing and ethics require. And it is for this reason among others that we should expect some uneasiness, if not outright turmoil when we try to learn skills that embody a significant element of character. The assumption is that it takes an act of law to compel us to write to be understood, to produce documents and texts accessible to clients and lay readers.