Journal Workshops
Why Attend A Journal Workshop?
During the past few years, journaling has become increasingly popular, with over 200 books now available on the subject. On-line workshops are available for those wanting to studying in the comfort of their own home.
So with all the books and on-line information available, why invest in attending a workshop? Here are some of the reasons I've attended writing and journaling workshops and many of my students agree:
- Get feedback and suggestions from the facilitator and other attendees.
- Discover that you are not alone with many of your reservations, fears or concerns about writing.
- Taking a class can re-ignite your creativity and help overcome writer's block
- You can be certain you will write at least once each week (or over a weekend)!
- You'll try new techniques you might have skipped over on your own--and discover you love them!
- Meet like-minded people.
- Make new friends.
But my favorite reason for attending (and teaching) workshops is:
- Writing workshops are magical. I've seen it time and time again. A fantastic energy is created when people join together to write.
Workshops and classes that I offer
My Workshop Schedule, 2009-2010
This is my current workshop schedule. Click on the workshop title for a descriiption.
Pre-registration is required for most events. Contact sponsor for more information.
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Journaling for Health and Well-being $100, includes use of facilities, including sauna, whirlpool, fitness room, yoga classes, and a whole foods buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
Stockbridge, MA | Sunday, December 27, 2009 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
http://www.kripalu.org 800-741-7353 |
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Intentional Collage $100, includes use of facilities, including sauna, whirlpool, fitness room, yoga classes, and a whole foods buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
Stockbridge, MA | Wednesday, Decembert 30, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
http://www.kripalu.org 800-741-7353 |
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Write the New Year $100, includes use of facilities, including sauna, whirlpool, fitness room, yoga classes, and a whole foods buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
Stockbridge, MA | Friday, January 1, 2010 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
http://www.kripalu.org 800-741-7353 |
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Creative Journaling $115 |
Boulder, CO |
Thursdays, February 4 - March 4, 2010 6:00 p.m.to 8:30 pm |
Boulder Valley School District
Lifelong Learning 303-499-1125 x222 |
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Intentional Collage Investment: $49.00 |
Boulder, CO | Saturday, March 10, 2010 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
New Vista High School, Boulder, CO Register through Boulder Lifelong Learning, http://bouldervalley.augusoft.net |
Workshop Descriptions
Journaling and Yoga For Body, Mind, and Spirit
Journaling and yoga have long been known to foster health and well-being, and recently scientific research has studied the specific healing benefits. Join me for a weekend of journaling and yoga to promote health and wellness of body, mind, and spirit. In this fun, supportive environment, you'll learn about the scientific studies showing how directed journaling can enhance the immune system, lower blood pressure, reduct the symptoms of physical ailments, and promote feelings of well-being.
The day will begin with gentle yoga followed by specific journaling exercises designed to help you:
- Release stress and powerful emotions, such as anger, sadness, tension and grief
- Connect with your Authentic Self
- Gain new perspectives on current challenges
- Heal relationships
- Access your body wisdom
- Meet your Inner Healer
- Create an individualized wellness kit
- Rediscover your creativity and innate joy
You'll leave with the knowledge and tools to continue a journaling and yoga practice to last you a lifetime!
Journal Writing for Health and Well Being.
Journal writing offers many health benefits, including stress reduction, releasing emotion, and getting in touch with one's true nature. This workshop offers tools used to keep a journal and understand its benefits.
Journey to Health: Writing Your Way to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-being
Join me for a journaling workshop designed to promote health and wellness of body, mind, and spirit. In this safe, supportive environment, you'll learn about scientific studies showing how directed writing can improve our physical and emotional health, along with ways to enhance your journaling, quiet your inner critic, and overcome writer's block.
We'll discuss and practice over a half-dozen journal writing techniques designed to:
- Gain new perspectives on current challenges and recognize their innate gift
- Release stress and powerful emotions, such as anger, sadness and grief
- Heal relationships
- Access your body wisdom
- Meet your inner healer
- Create an individualized wellness kit
- Rediscover your creativity and innate joy
This class is ideal for both beginning and advanced journal kepers. Bring a journal and favorite writing instrument.
Creative Journaling
Whether you've been journaling for years or have never written an entry, this course will give you the tools and inspiration to delve into a journal-writing practice. In a safe, fun, supportive, small-group environment, you'll learn to:
- Outwit writer's block and increase overall writing skills
- Connect with your Authentic Self
- Enhance your relationships
- Improve your health by safely releasing stress, tension, frustration, sadness, and anger
- Unleash your creativity
- Access your intuitive wisdom
- Track the ebbs and flows of your life
- Explore your dreams
- Befriend your writing
- and more!
This workshop teaches 17 special writing techniques to enhance your journaling. Format includes discussion, writing exercises, feedback from the instructor, and optional sharing of journal-entries. Based upon Journal to the Self by Kathleen Adams.
Write the New Year
Intended for December or January, to help usher in the coming year. In a safe supportive environment we’ll use simple journal writing techniques to cleanse ourselves of unwanted baggage from the old year, capture its highlights, and plant seeds for a bountiful new year. No previous writing experience necessary.
Intentional Collage
Recapture the fun you had as a child by making a photomontage with an inward twist. The intentional collage is based on a concept, desire, or issue that comes to mind during an opening visualization and is then developed on paper using related images and words. Your intention may be focused on your work, family, your self, boundaries, spirituality, or some abstract concept calling out for attention. We'll work in silence, with quiet background music and finish with a short writing exercise to further explore the collage-making experience and message. Collages may be framed and hung as reminders of specific goals or affirmations or gathered over time to make a visual journal.
Living Room Workshops
Bring journaling into your home with Living Room Journal Workshops. Simply choose a workshop, invite 8 friends, colleagues or acquaintances to your home or other arranged space and you attend for free! It's a great way to get people started in journaling or help them continue. Customized workshops can also be arranged. The workshops can be taught over a weekend or, for locations close to Lenox, MA, a series of weekday evenings. (Teaching to smaller groups is available within a 2-hour proximity to Lenox, MA.)
Customized Workshops
Do you have a group in mind who could benefit from journal writing? Customized workshops can be developed for any group or organization. Spiritual Journaling is popular among churches, Family Journals make wonderful keepsakes and help bring families together, and Teen Journals can be brought to high schools. Path Finders is a perfect journaling workshop for job and career seekers at any stage of their career. Professional Development Journaling can be offered to teachers, therapists, managers....what's your idea? Private sessions and speaking engagements can also be arranged.
Journal Writing in Rome
Travel to Italy and stay in a family villa while you combine a relaxing vacation with journal writing workshop to delve into the creative realm. Through lecture, discussion, journaling, and optional sharing, we’ll break through writing blocks; access our creativity; tap into our subconscious and supraconscious minds; learn how to keep a travel journal and capture present and past precious moments; and meet our wise Inner Guide. Our week will include informal sightseeing and optional customized self-guided tours in the magical city of Rome. All levels welcome; no previous writing or journaling experience needed. Please bring a journal and a couple of your favorite pens. Registration is limited to 10 workshop participants, so please register early!
The workshop fee includes
- 6-night double-occupancy room and shared bathrom in Il Villino
- Daily continental breakfast, 4 lunches, 4 dinners
- 4 days of workshop (24 hours total)
- Pick up/drop off at the train station, which is a direct ride to and from the international airport Leonardo DaVinci, Fiumicino.
NOTE, however, that the workshop fee DOES NOT include
- Air fare
- Lunches on day when we’ll be writing off-site
- Dinner Day 4 and 5, when we’ll choose from several local eateries
Click here to see a recent article from Fort Collins Now about the Rome workshop site.
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Lori J. Batcheller, MA, MPT, CYT-500 Writer  Yoga Instructor
Physical Therapist
Creative Communications Boulder, CO 80305
Lenox, MA 01240
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