About My Workshops
Why Create a Workshop?
I have created these heart-based journaling workshops, for beginners and veterans alike, as a call to those who are seeking to explore and reconnect with deeper aspects of themselves with courage and honesty in a community of like-minded souls. I strive to create a safe and comfortable environment where individuals can feel free to express themselves and to explore and reconnect with their inner landscape, the realm of the heart.
Our culture places great emphasis on the mind, but we need to engage both heart and mind in order to navigate life, to combine knowing with compassion. The mind is our source of logic and reason but also the place where judgment, rigidity, and overthinking originates. The heart is the seat of our true knowing, the source of acceptance, compassion, and love for both self and others, and this is the foundation of inner peace.
What to Expect
The heart and inner wisdom are best accessed in a state of stillness, and so we begin all workshops with breathing and relaxation techniques to quiet the mind and relax the body. I offer a variety of prompts, visualizations, and guided imagery as a springboard for writing. After writing an entry, I will invite you to write a few sentences about how you felt, emotions and body sensations, as you were writing. Writing our inner process can help us to deepen our self-awareness and gain greater self-understanding. Participants may share their writing, and sharing is always optional. Confidentiality and respect are foundational to my workshops.
These workshops are not designed as therapy nor are they didactic. Journaling and the sharing of your story in a safe environment, however, can be therapeutic. Each of us is unique with a unique journey in life. I try to facilitate an experience that enables each individual to find their own way. Coming together in a group of individuals who wish to explore and share their uniqueness in a safe space can be a very beautiful thing.
For more information on my in-person and online workshops, please visit my Workshops page. I would also love to collaborate with you to create a custom workshop designed to meet the specific needs of your group. You may contact me at 720-485-1431 or maryann@journalingforjoy.net.
All workshop participants will receive one of my 4" x 7" handmade journals. To view my journals, please visit my Shop page. I hope to see you soon!
"...We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More
than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.Without these qualities, life loses its
meaning...
Charlie Chaplin
(1940 film, The Great Dictator)
For more information about a wholesale order or if you would like to collaborate to create a custom workshop designed to meet the specific needs of your group, fill out the form below or contact Mary Ann at 720-485-1431.