Welcome to The Great Journaling Journey!
This course is for seasoned and new journal writers alike. It invites you into thinking about what journaling means to you, what you want to get out of it and provides powerful tools for deepening your journaling practice and gaining all the many life enhancing benefits it can provide to you. Please click on the video to watch the Welcome message!
Ultimately, this course is about how to enrich your life with journaling and write the life you want to live!
This course is filled with beautiful images, inspiration, videos, audios, and many Joyful Journaling Assignments – all with me as your virtual guide on your own unique Great Journaling Journey!
Let journaling help you be the heroine/hero of your own life journey!
About this Course
This guided Great Journaling Journey includes 13 lessons to help you get started, re-start and/or deepen your own personal journal writing practice! If you want to write to know, grow and care for yourself in creative and nourishing ways, this course is for you. Tap into the power of journaling to tap into the power in you.
As the Director of the International Association for Journal Writing, I regularly get asked questions about journaling. Here are some of the most common questions I get asked:
- how to journal?
- what to journal about?
- how to keep journaling fresh?
- how to go deeper with journaling?
- how to write for self-awareness and personal growth?
- what are the benefits of journaling?
- should journals be re-read?
- how to write consistently?
- how can journaling support me to reach my goals?
- how can I make my journal more creative and fun?
We, Ruth Folit (Founder and past Director of the IAJW.org) and I strived to answer some of these questions in our How to Journal: Your Complete Guide. People want more! Maybe you want more?
That is why I have created this course – to try and answer these common questions about journaling and to offer you lots of ideas, tips, prompts and writing activities that you can do right away to enrich and nourish your journaling and your whole life too!
Journal writing makes a difference.
When you write with clear intention, consistency and openness,
journaling can truly change your life!
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Course Outline (to find these lessons, keep scrolling down this page and you will see them listed, simply click on a lesson and you will be taken to it)
Lesson 1: What is Journaling, Really?
Lesson 2: Benefits of Journaling & Finding Your Why
Lesson 3: How to Add Journaling to Your Day
Lesson 4: How to Start a Journal & Keep Going
Lesson 5: Deciding Between a Hand Written or Digital Journal
Lesson 6: What to Write About In Your Journal
Lesson 7: Positive Journaling Mindsets – Gratitude & Compassion
Lesson 8: Self-Talk & Inner Dialogue Discovery
Lesson 9: Journaling & Time
Lesson 10: Re-Reading Your Journal
Lesson 11: Three Transformational Journaling Techniques
Lesson 12: Dreaming Forward & Your Self-Expression Matters
Lesson 13: Thank You, Completion & Journal the Life You Want to Live
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What to expect in this online self-guided course
While this course is not facilitated in live time, I will be supporting your learning every step of the way. I have created these lessons to guide you through the learning, ideas and inspiration in bite-size pieces so you can savour this Great Journaling Journey and make it your own.
I will respond to all comments and questions that you might wish to share along the way. Simply add your comments, questions or musings into the comments in any lesson in the course and I will be sure to respond! You will also be able to read the comments from others on the Great Journaling Journey.
Let the Journey Begin, enjoy!
Please proceed to Lesson 1: What is journaling, really?
You can find the link to the lesson below. Thank you.
Please note, there are lots of journaling activities in this course. Follow your own instincts regarding the pace at which you want to move through this course. It can be helpful to pause and reflect, to take time to integrate your learning and insights. Pace is good in both learning and journaling! Trust your own pace to unfold in it’s own perfect timing, in it’s own perfect way. Enjoy the journey!