Abc Journaling

Creative journaling with the ABC of emotions

What you'll learn

Explore different sides of yourself and become comfortable with feelings.

Learn how to capture your thoughts in a colourful and fun way, and reclaim playfulness.

Identify and question old beliefs that holds you back and discover insights, creativity, and wisdom you didn’t know you had.

‘Clean house’ of problems, pains, patterns and reactions as you filter through mental noise and inner critic voice.

Investigate more opportunities for fun/creativity.

Requirements

You would need a unlined notebook and lots of colourful pens to start with.

Inspired to live colourfully and creatively.

Willingness to dig deep and a sense of commitment to yourself.

Description

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.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 How to set up a journaling routine.

Lecture 2 Lecture 1 – Define your reason – why do you want to journal?

Lecture 3 Lecture 2 – Decide on where – choose your sacred space.

Lecture 4 Lecture 3 – Regular uninterrupted time.

Section 2: A few principles.

Lecture 5 Lecture 1 – Commitment.

Lecture 6 Lecture 2 – Selecting a journal and supplies.

Lecture 7 Lecture 4 – Different types of journaling.

Section 3: Technique 1 - Reflection blocks (a-d)

Lecture 8 Lecture 1 – Working with double spread page.

Lecture 9 Lecture 4 – Add colour.

Section 4: Technique 2- Writing your belief system (e – h)

Lecture 10 Set aside a block of time.

Lecture 11 Use 3-4 questions.

Section 5: Section 5: Technique 3 - Organic notes/ Mind maps (i-l)

Lecture 12 “Six honest serving men/women” is joining you.

Lecture 13 Use key words or images - Start from a centre spot.

Lecture 14 Create sub centres and put key words ON lines. .

Lecture 15 Use colour, arrows, icons and other visual aids.

Section 6: Section 6: Technique 4 – Unsent letters (m – p)

Lecture 16 Lecture 1 – Who can you write it to?

Lecture 17 Options/Decisions:

Lecture 18 Writing the letter.

Section 7: Technique 5 – Timed writings and Dialogue. (q – t)

Lecture 19 Time limit.

Lecture 20 Jump start.

Lecture 21 Ideas for using timed writings.

Section 8: Section 8: Technique 6 – Add Pizzazz!. (u -z)

Lecture 22 Dialogue/Conversations

Lecture 23 Art/Drawings.

Lecture 24 Stickers galore!

Lecture 25 Quotes.

Lecture 26 Photo journaling.

Lecture 27 Lists and more lists.

Section 9: Journal tune- up

Lecture 28 Re-reading your journal

Lecture 29 Gratitude.

Lecture 30 Now what?

Everyone that wants to understand themselves a bit better in a relaxed and creative way.,People who wants to differentiate between knowing and feeling.,Everyone who wants to add more colour to their lives.