
Finding clarity.
To find a dedicated space.
Prepare to make the most of your experience.
Develop a sense of anticipation regarding your journal and the blank page.
Prepare for your journaling experience.
Identify the different types of journaling and decide which one works best for your goal.
Prepare to get the first words down on paper.
Establish playfulness as part of journal routine.
Question what you know about yourself. Choose the right moment.
Modify the list to suit your needs.
Identify your objective in a guided way.
Practice a different way of thinking.
Create more opportunities for thoughts to emerge.
Assemble your thoughts even further as you build on playfulness and colour.
Identify your recipient.
Allowing yourself to let your unedited emotions flow.
Exposing unconscious emotions, you might be completely unaware of.
Learn the benefits of the unfinished sentence.
Manipulate yourself into writing.
Immerse yourself into that inner river of spontaneous expression.
Appreciate the beauty/impact of a careless sketch.
Utilize art to inspire you.
Indulge in playfulness and the joy of creating amazing pages.
Develop a positive thinking habit by journaling with quotes.
Assemble memories.
Discover the many forms and uses for the humble list.
Allow you to analyse and take stock.
Evaluate what you have discovered about yourself.
Identify your future needs for your now established practice of journaling.
The ABC journaling course is a comprehensive course about journaling with a difference. I love letters, I love writing them down and I like playing with them. This course came about after years, I mean literally 40 years of being a journaler myself. I journaled through sad times bad times good times mad times. I journaled in buses, trains, airplanes, outside in the garden, in hotel lobbies. You name it, wherever I go my journal goes. This course will get you excited about journaling, and yourself. Guaranteed. You will learn about the joy and the magic of journaling. You, my dear human being, you that are looking for answers, you that need inspiration and motivation or just that little bit of magic in your life – this course is for you. To help you explore who you are as well as the stories you tell yourself.Journaling is a powerful tool, even when you do nothing more than write down your thoughts. But I want to show you how to use it to your greatest advantage. I want you to know how to journal intentionally, how to journal to meet your own unique needs. For when we journal ON PURPOSE, with an understanding of how it works, that’s when we discover how brilliant we really are. Journaling is a process of stimulating the mind, body and heart, and then capturing the resulting thoughts, sensations and inspirations on paper, so we can give them attention, reflection and meaning. Different journaling tools and exercises encourage us to think in different ways.
Why ABC?
I was playing around with the idea of calling this course Absolutely Brilliantly Creative journaling course or even Amazingly Bedazzling Creative journaling course. Again …. why? Our year has 52 weeks, the alphabet has 26 letters. And yes, 26 + 26 = 52. That means we can ‘work’ with each letter for two weeks during the year. When I talk about ‘work’ with the letters, I’m talking about using the emotion that comes with the letter. Let’s take the letter A for example. What emotions or attitudes or feelings start with A? Apprehension, anxiety, anger, amazed, to name a few. Imagine having these as your companions for a week. Excited yet? Then this is truly the course for you. I appreciate you reading so far – another lovely A-word!. Yes, you are going to journal with emotions, feelings, attitudes by using the humble alphabet to help you identify emotions that you don’t even know you had. We need to honor our emotions. We need to give voice to them. We need to identify them correctly.
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