Journal Keeping: Creating Resilient Stories (Via Zoom)

January 29, 9:00am-12:00pm (Central Time)

$30 preregistered/prepaid.

Registration Deadline: January 27 (A link will be sent to you one day prior to the event.)

We all have been shaken, turned upside down, and challenged to our core during these pandemic times. Even if we could protect ourselves and stay safe, our ways of believing, understanding, and interacting have shifted. We had to stop.

Now, as the world opens up, what have we learned? Will we rush headlong back to the busyness the culture demands, the distractions, the pleasures denied during lockdown? Possibly. Or, will we choose to pause? Will we turn inward, hold tightly to the lessons forced upon us? Will we heed those lessons, reshape our stories, and step forward to live genuinely, from the heart, from the inner wisdom of the witness?

Journal writing can give us resilient stories to hold us as we step ahead with compassion, grace, and hope.

In this workshop, using meditation and prompts of various kinds (lists, free writing, letters), let us invite, nourish, and transform what reveals itself in our journals, in conscious community, gently opening a new page, informed by what we have survived.

Susan Kimball is a retired high school language arts and writing teacher, with over thirty-five years of teaching experience. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. A journal keeper for over forty years, her journal writing practice has provided unconditional warmth and revelation on her spiritual journey.

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