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NEW Create Your Own Succesful Journaling Course self-study program. Register now for this information-packed 6-lesson online course created 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 goals as a course creator. This is a self-study course that you can do at your own pace.
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$297.00
Unlock the Power to Teach Journaling On Your Own Terms
Created by Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC & Eric Maisel, PhD
Have you ever felt called to share the power of journaling with others? Do you long to guide people toward clarity, growth, and inner peace but don’t know where to start?
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 have previous experience running courses or none at all!
With this Create Your Own Successful Journaling Course you gain everything you need to build a meaningful, engaging journaling course that feels truly yours. This isn’t a rigid “one-size-fits-all” program, it’s an invitation to design a journaling journey through your values, voice, and vision.
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The Course Creation Path Mini Workshop by Eric Maisel & Lynda Monk takes you on a guided tour of what it takes to create a course and share it with others! Get a behind the scenes look at creating your own journaling course.
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$97.00
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create your own course and share it with others? In the Course Creation Path Mini Workshop we will provide you with a snapshot of how to create your own course. In this mini workshop, you will:
Learn course creation overview
Get grounded in the creative process
Discover 8 key things you must do on your course creation path
Consider the specific steps required to create a course
See some practical examples of the course creation process in action
AND you will be invited to map out your own course creation path!
Whether you want to create an online course or an in-person offering, there are key elements of the course creation process. These are key steps you must take to create and deliver a course of your own and this mini workshop.
"I want to thank you both for producing both of these videos. Both were excellent with really valuable insights. I would say that these two videos speak to what so many of us are struggling with. Thank you both for being heartfelt human beings and amazing teachers.” ~ Jackee Holder, Leadership Coach, Journaling Facilitator, Author
Buy now and be inspired to create your own course!
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Mindfulness and Journaling This NEW course takes the mystery out of mindfulness and teaches you how to develop it through journal writing. Live more deeply, peacefully, and creatively despite all the noise and tension in the world.
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$127.00
We are all dealing with too much, too much to do, too much information, too much harsh reality in our world. There seems to be no oasis from the noise and many people are realizing that we have to look inside for any haven we can find. This course can move you from that insight to real change. It can help you access greater feelings of calm and inner peace.
In Mindfulness and Journaling, mindfulness is clearly explained and broken down into learnable steps and skills. Using accessible explanations and journal writing ideas, you will be given techniques to understand and use mindfulness training. You will feel less swamped when you develop a sense of internal awareness that is flexible.
In 11 Lessons that utilize a variety of learning styles, you will be given a definition of mindfulness and ways to use writing to experience increased focus and decreased distraction. You will also see how to apply this more grounded mind to your daily life and creative goals. You will see that mindfulness skills can give you a sense of life moving more smoothly in relationships and work. You will watch your own sense of mindfulness develop, and you will leave the course with clear ideas about how to keep the process unfolding.
Mindfulness and Journaling is taught by Beth Jacobs, Ph.D., an author, clinical psychologist, journaling expert of many decades, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She brings all of these experiences and warmth to the topic, and great hope for its benefits to support you!
Buy now and the course is available to you immediately! This is a self-guided course that you can work through at your own pace. Each lesson is like an oasis, a mini-mindful retreat!
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The Great Journaling Journey will help you start, re-start or deepen your existing journaling practice. This powerful, inspiring and creative 13 lesson course will take you to new journaling heights!
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$67.00
The Great Journaling Journey is a self-guided online course for new and seasoned journal writers alike. This course teaches you not only how to journal, the benefits of journaling, and how to create the journaling habit, it offers you over 70 journaling prompts, creative journaling activities and lots of inspiration! Have you ever wondered what to write about? How to journal consistently and create the journaling habit? Maybe you want to go deeper with your journaling and get more aha moments from it? Perhaps you long for new self-discoveries, more clarity, deeper self-compassion and long to express yourself more fully, if so, this course is for you! This course if filled with beautiful images, inspiration, videos, audio, journaling prompts and joyful journaling assignments as playwork on the page! The Great Journaling Journey empowers you as the empowered, confident author of your own life story! Let your self-discovery through journaling journey begin! This course is FREE when you become an IAJW Member!
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Writing Through Transitions: Four Tools is a self-paced online course that uses a writing model that deepens personal strength and clarity during personal transitions. It explains the big picture of transitions along with offering four key tools to use in your own transitions, now and in the future.
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$127.00
4 Key Tools for Growing with Change
Leia Francisco’s trademarked model Writing Through Transitions® is based on her 25 years as a transition coach, teacher and author, working with people from many backgrounds and cultures. Her work demonstrates how writing maximizes personal power and growth during significant, and often challenging, transitions. You will complete this course with an understanding of the transition process and four key tools to use in all future transitions. Each lesson deepens your transition knowledge and the use of your tools.
This course will help you to...
understand the process of each life transition
use lifetime tools for your transitions
see the power of writing about your transitions
The nine lessons in the online course contain bite-sized topics about letting go, moving in between, and accepting the new way, along with practice using the tools of self-assessment, structure, support and a plan. The lessons are easy to understand, and writing strategies are aligned with the transition you are exploring. Supplemental material includes downloadable material, quotes, and suggestions.
As a self-study course, it has no set start date. You can begin the course as soon as you purchase it, and you will move at your own pace—this is especially important in exploring transitions.
Writing Through Transitions: 4 Keys for Growing with Change is offered exclusively through the IAJW.org. Buy now & get started with Writing Through Transitions, you will learn so much in this informative and inspiring course!
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Do you long for more time for yourself? All of us have within us, the ability to discover a way to practice enjoyable and simple self-care through journaling. Learn how!
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$77.00
Do you have limited time yet know you need more clarity, ease and energy for your daily life? Creative journaling is an investment in your self-care practice and is perfect for people who want to tune in, find clarity, and have more enjoyment and beauty in their lives. This four lesson, structured and self-guided program created by Nicolle Nattrass, will help you claim the joy you crave and increase your self-care using writing exercises, creativity challenges and fun activities. Self-care is the fuel that nourishes us and moves us forward in our personal and professional lives. This is a self-study course. You have immediate access to the course at the time of purchase. Buy now and immerse yourself in the joy of Creative Journaling for Self-Care!
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Are you ready to make the leap and move from writing a journal entry to writing a personal essay–whether or not you know what you want to write about?
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$127.00
Are you ready to make the leap and move from writing a journal entry to writing a personal essay–whether or not you know what you want to write about? From Journal Entry to Personal Essay is a four week* structured immersion in ideas, resources, writing exercises, and individual feedback for those who want to write a personal essay. What makes this offer exceptional is not only the materials that you’ll receive but that you’ll that you’ll also get individual, one-on-one feedback from Sheila Bender on your 1500 word draft! "Many thanks for the opportunity to learn from the well designed, and interesting format. I enjoyed working through the content and may consider another course in the future." - Susan Beiderwieden *Please know, you can work at your own pace and complete this course in a week or take your time over a couple of months. Everything you need is here to proceed in the time-frame that feels right to you.
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Be guided and inspired, by Joyce Chapman, Live Your Dream Coach, to use personal writing and powerful questions to arrive at your own truths and claim your biggest dream.
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$57.00
Each of us has a secret – or not so secret – desire. It’s a vision of what we would do if we faced no limits, or what we would accomplish if no obstacles stood in our way. You will be guided to use personal writing to help you arrive at your own truths to discover your life purpose and claim your biggest dream. This is a gently facilitated online course offering you 8 creative lessons designed by Dream-Life Coach, author and journal writing expert, Joyce Chapman. Register now and dream big!
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Dr. Maisel’s Focused Journal Method is an elegant, systematic way of meeting life’s challenges using intentional journaling.
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$35.00
Dr. Maisel’s Focused Journal Method is an elegant, systematic way of meeting life’s challenges using intentional journaling. “I love the Focused Journal Method! I feel like a detective working out the mysteries of my own life. Focused Journaling hasn’t replaced my everyday journaling but it is a stupendous addition to the tools I use to make sense of life!”—Stephanie R.
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Does your writing just describe feelings or lead to real emotional growth? This course will give you a self-guided format for valuable insights and actual change.
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$197.00
Beth Jacobs' 35 years as a writer and a practicing clinical psychologist have been condensed into this course on Writing for Emotional Balance. Writing is not just a way to vent feelings; writing is a tool of psychological skill and development. This course will give you a self-guided format for therapeutic insight and actual change. Writing for Emotional Balance is a twelve lesson structured immersion in ideas, teaching materials, and writing exercises that help emotional life feel more manageable, comfortable and rich. Emotions are an organic reality of being human; emotional fluency and flexibility are a core of well-being, and these are what you will gain in this course. The course is structured around 12 lessons which introduce sequential processes of emotional balance by offering: brief descriptions of an emotional balance principle, an illustrating writing exercise, and follow-up ideas. The lessons are easy but use a variety of writing techniques to incorporate real emotional skills. Each lesson also has topics that include written and audio material, reflective journaling prompts, inspirational quotes and tips, and the availability of the author for questions about the process. Writing for Emotional Balance is a rich assortment of resources that actively demonstrate how personal writing can be a vehicle, not just a reflection, of personal development. This is a self-study course and does not have a specific start date and you have immediate access to the course at the time of purchase. IAJW Members save 20% off, simply be logged in when you add the course to your cart and your savings will be automatically applied.
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Being your own unique Writing Through the Wisdom of Trees in this creative and inspiring course!
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$127.00
Writing Through The Wisdom Of Trees by Jackee Holder is inspired by the rich metaphoric narratives embodied in tree mythology and the nature of human relationships with trees. In this self-guided, 7 lesson course, that you can enjoy at your own pace... you will discover how to use nature prompts to gain greater insight and awareness into who you are. Through Jackee Holder's creative Tree Essays and teachings, you will be introduced to the metaphors and teachings of 5 types of trees including the Oak, Tamarind, Baobab, Beech and Apple trees. The Inner Nature Writing Prompts included throughout this course are sure to inspire you, your writing and your meaningful relationship with the trees and nature in your life. BUY NOW and begin your own unique journey with Writing Through the Wisdom of Trees. You will be so happy you did.
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