Instructor Led Courses

  • NEW Create Your Own Succesful Journaling Course. Register now for this information-packed 6-week online course led live by IAJW director Lynda Monk and master coach Eric Maisel. Learn how to choose, create, market, promote, and deliver successful journaling courses that serve the needs of your participants and your aims as a solopreneur and course creator. Course starts Tuesday, February 11th, 2025.  

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    $495.00

    6-Week Informative & Interactive Online Course

    Live weekly classes with Lynda Monk & Eric Maisel

    Are you eager to run your own course, workshop, class, training, webinar, or retreat?

    Do you want participants to have a rich, meaningful learning experience?

    Would you like to learn more about creating successful courses of your own? This course is for you if: + You’ve been dreaming of creating a course + You love journaling and see it as a valuable tool + You want to include a lot of journaling in your course, or just a little + You have previous experience running courses—or none at all! Learn from experienced coaches, course creators and facilitators, Lynda Monk & Eric Maisel. They have developed 100+ courses between them and have made a good part of their respective livelihoods from creating and offering both in-person and online courses for decades now. Join them for this brand NEW course where you can learn how to Create Successful Journal Courses of your own!  This 6-week live online class starts Tuesday, February 11th Class Dates: Tuesday February 11th, 18th, 25th, March 4th, 11th, 18th Class Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PST via Zoom (find this in your time zone with www.worldtimebuddy.com) All classes will be recorded. Next Course Coming Soon
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  • Join award-winning author and teacher, Mark Matousek, for this 4 week Journaling for Hope & Guidance online course. Next class in 2025. Dates TBA.

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    A Four-Week Writing to Awaken Course with Mark Matousek

    Next class in 2025. Dates TBA.

    Journaling is a powerful practice for cultivating hope in challenging times. As humans, we have a unique capacity to transform hopelessness through ingenuity and imagination, and to brighten our lives with the power of insight.

    In this inspiring four-week course, Mark guides you through a series of Writing to Awaken practices aimed at catalyzing the spirit of hope within you. Shifting your perspective on personal experience - including fearful predictions about the future – helps to release vital optimism and move you from victimhood toward self-empowerment.

    You are elevated by “the thing with feathers,” as Emily Dickinson described hope, and your innate ability to imagine fresh outcomes.

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  • Learn how writing your stories can lead to greater resilience, meaning, and well-being! Join award-winning writing teacher and author Sandra Marinella to write the stories you need to tell! Next class TBD in 2025. 

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    Writing for Resilience & Renewal with Sandra Marinella

    Do you have a story?  Of course, we all have stories! While some of your stories may be painful, others center on your hopes, your dreams, your meaning, and the search for your best self. This class will teach you to find, safely hold, share, reframe, and write your best stories. The many writing prompts and exercises offered will guide you to write past hardships and toward positive outcomes that highlight resilience and renewal. We will share, write, and read our work in a safe, caring, and confidential community. You will get supportive feedback from fellow writers and professional feedback from award-winning writing teacher and author, Sandra Marinella. This Zoom class will be interactive and live for six weeks.  Next course starts 2025, dates to be determined.
    Sandra’s classes and book genuinely invite us to learn and discover how the power of writing and storytelling can be medicine for the soul. Simply transformational!" ~Gayle Church
    Note: You will receive an email a week before the course starts that will include an overview of course dates as listed below, and everything you need to know to prepare for this amazing course experience, as well as the Zoom link for accessing the weekly classes.
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  • Transform Your Health: Write to Heal with Tracey O'Connell, M.D.- is a powerful six week online course based on the expressive writing protocal created by the late Dr. John Evans. Learn how to transform your health through expressive writing in this excellent guided program. Next 6 Week Class March 19th - April 23, 2025

     

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    $297.00
    With Tracey O'Connell, M.D. Next 6 Week Class March 19th - April 23, 2025 Is there a particular stressor or challenge in your life that you would like to gain relief from? Do you feel exhausted and depleted and in need of a sense of renewed energy and resilience?  Do you crave more feelings of happiness, hope, inner peace and optimism during these complex times we are living in? Join this 6 week online evidence-based course, grounded in the work of the late Dr. John Evans, designed to help you discover ways to manage stressful events and upheavals in your life through expressive writing. The act of writing engages internal healing resources that affect mental and physical health. Expressive writing has the power to help you reduce heart rate and blood pressure, minimize stress, strengthen the immune system, and improve your self-esteem. Transform Your Health:  Write to Heal is a transformative six-week workshop that helps you access your inner healing voice. Please note, IAJW members save 20% off (simply be logged in as a member when you add this course to your cart and your member savings will be automatically applied).  Register now and be truly transformed from this six week Transform Your Health: Write to Heal journey!  Weekly online classes March 19th - April 23, 2025, Wednesdays from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm PST / 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
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  • Writing Home: A Whole Life Practice - a NEW 6 week online course with author, poet and teacher, Mary Ann Moore. Unfold your personal story, envelop yourself with your own wisdom, be inspired to live your life from that heart-opening place. Next 2025 Course Dates TBD

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    • Do you want to create a soulful writing practice that uplifts and nourishes you?
    • Do you have a desire to be part of a community with other writers, sharing new discoveries along the writing path?
    • In the midst of the busyness, would you like to find the stillness and honour your own unique voice?

    The Writing Home circle is a six-stage writing journey through the chakras (energy centres in the body) during which time your facilitator, Mary Ann Moore, will share readings, poems and invitations to guide your writing practice. The Writing Home Circle is an inviting and inclusive space to uncover your story and express your unique voice.

    Next 2025 Course Dates TBD

    6 week interactive online Writing Home Circle

    "If you are seeking support to express your own voice, create more flow in your life, and get in touch with your authentic self, whether you are a writer, artist or creative dreamer, Mary Ann Moore’ Writing Home program is a gentle but persuasive invitation to awakening." ~ Becky Tilly

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  • Learn how to design, publish, and print journals for yourself or others. Learn how to sell your journals on Amazon. Inspiring online workshop with Michelle Stimpson - next offering in 2025, dates TBD.

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    Learn how to design a custom journal that will help cultivate a peaceful, personalized journaling experience for anyone.  Learn how to create journals for yourself, for gifts and/or to sell on Amazon. Whether you are printing journals for personal use or planning to publish them for sale, this workshop will give you the knowledge and tools you need to bring your vision to life! There is no previous journal design experience to benefit from this workshop.

    This session is being taught by bestselling author and journaling advocate Michelle Stimpson, M.Ed.

    The workshop will be recorded and the recording will be shared with everyone who is registered for the workshop (even if you can't attend the session live, you can still learn how to create your own Custom Journals with the recording!)

    Next workshop offering will be in 2025, dates TBD.

    The journal design workshop was well-organized, informative, and enjoyable. Michelle is a wealth of ideas. She helped me think through both current and future ideas for journals. ~ Stephanie Lehr

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  • Take time for yourself, gain clarity and focus, get unstuck from creative procrastination and dive deep into the healing art of expressive writing with this 6-week Writing for Wellness Salon. Next Salon starts September 17th, 2025.

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    $397.00
    Next Salon starts September 17th, 2025 If you want to take time for yourself, gain clarity and focus, free your self-expression, get unstuck from creative procrastination and dive deep into the healing art of expressive writing - this 6 week Transformational Writing for Wellness Salon is for YOU! Through group coaching calls, weekly writing activities, and personalized feedback, you will be fully supported to go to the page and write for self-discovery, wellness and creative self-expression.
    "The Salon is an amazing experience for anyone wanting to explore themselves and their lives. Each unit is an opportunity to dive deep. Stretch your boundaries, peek over the edges, probe the unknown and maybe even the unknowable? Great fun and wonderfully experiential. There is no writing experience like Lynda's Salon anywhere!" ~ Kit Thomas
    Register Now and secure your space in this "creative, supportive and inspiring program." SAVE $100 off in our early, early bird special until May 15th! IAJW Members save an additional 20% off, simply be logged in when you add this to your cart and your savings will be automatically discounted!
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