Making Mindfulness work for you.

• Deeper reflection
• Gaining perspective
• Setting intentions
• Connecting to you
• Skillful choices
• Creativity and freedom
• Living the questions
• Explore and discover
• Inspiring change and growth

Have you ever felt that life is living you, as if you are lost in serving an agenda of activities, responsibilities and commitments that bring you little joy?

Have you ever felt stuck, as if life is a treadmill of unsatisfying events, and you yearn to reconnect to a sense of purpose, joy or feeling alive?

Have you ever wished to cultivate a growth mindset, a way of living life with curiosity, creativity, resilience, presence, authenticity and connection?

You might try mindful journaling.

Mindful Journaling Course

Beginning in January 2024 I am running a course on Mindful Journaling that includes mindfulness meditation, interactive dialogue and time for reflection, offering a wide range of creative ideas on how to use a variety of journaling techniques to explore the questions of life, to connect to your authentic self, to explore life with a growth mindset, to set intentions in line with your core needs, and to open creative ideas for your wellbeing. 

Journaling : creative and dynamic.

• can incude art, music, photography, collecting objects, writing, dancing, singing.
• can be structured, focused, precise, practical, concrete.
• can be creative, abstract, free, open-minded, expansive, whimsical, ethereal.
• can be used to connect to what is present in body, mind, emotions.
• can explore this moment, or a whole lifetime.
• can set intentions, plan projects, explore new directions, inspire growth.

• Maybe you want to explore one issue, one relationship, one project or one intention….
• Maybe you want to reconnect with yourself at a time of feeling lost or disconnected….
• Maybe you feel a need for fun, creativity, discovery, possibility or for effectiveness, efficiency, meaning and purpose…..

Interested? 8-week course, online, international, in English: Saturdays 19h-21h30 CET. Starting late January/Early February. 250€ with concessions. Click here for inquiries and to reserve your place.

The benefits of combining mindfulness and journaling.

This course offers you a journey through 8 weeks of guided mindfulness meditations drawn from MBSR and Mindful Self-Compassion linked to a range of home-practice and journaling exercises. 

Designed for those who have already completed the introductory 8 week MBSR, this course offers the possibility of deepening and developing your Mindfulness practice, combining meditation and reflection, exploring how to integrate mindfulness into an evolution of Mindful Living, Mindful Being and Mindful growth. 

Meditation and reflection can be used to gain perspective, awareness or clarity on your relationship with yourself, your life and your community. 

You can discover what nourishes and what depletes, what resources you and what drains you, what inspires you and brings you alive, and what blocks you and holds you back. 

You can play with ideas on how to begin making the changes that would cultivate a life that feels more connected, integrated, authentic, meaningful or healthy for mind and body. 

• As with the 8-week MBSR, the course includes guided meditation practice for grounding and centering, for focus and concentration, and for open awareness. The meditations cultivate connection to body, feelings, emotions, thoughts, community, life. 
• As with Self-Compassion the course includes practice that holds difficulty, challenge and sticky or tender life experience with compassion and care. 
• In line with Living Mindfulness, the course invites a cultivation of our capacity to feel gratitude, awe, beauty, vitality, abundance in our day to day lived experience. 

Framing the practice in the attitudes of Mindfulness, and with tips on self-development, this journaling course offers ideas on how to realise real change in our lives, how to recognise the possibility in experience and take this forward into real growth.

Engaging in these meditation, reflection and creative journaling exercises offers you ways to cultivate space, clarity and perspective towards becoming more insight-ready, flow-ready, or growth-ready.

Click here for more information about my next Mindful journaling course.

Journaling my life.

Long before I discovered Mindfulness, I began journaling when I was very small. Over the years I have turned to my journal to record important events, to explore feelings, to get things off my chest in a safe and private space, to allow my emotions to process, to find clarity on my own needs and priorities, to allow my creativity to flow. 

Perspective and self-connection.

I keep my journals in a box, and occasionally, in the pages I revisit and “re-parent” very young parts of me, holding their experience with the compassionate wisdom of my mid-50’s self. 

Reconnecting with my young self reminds me to be playful, spontaneous and forgiving in my relationship with myself, rejuvenates my beginner’s mind so I don’t get too stuck in my ways.

In the pages of my journal I can hold the hurt and wounded parts of me with kindness, compassion, patience. 

Dipping into pages across a lifetime I can recognise and celebrate the achievements, experiences, joys, wonders and gratitudes of my life. 

With my mindfulness practice I can find the evolution of myself, a sense of continuity and change, awareness of the transience and the richness of human experience. 

I can let go of things that seemed intense and urgent in the past, and connect more to the flow of life and of being part of a bigger interconnected existence.

Processing delicate and tender things in a safe and private space.

I have journaled with the voice of fear, anger, despair, and from the voice of courage, compassion, hope. I have found ways to be at peace with things, process grief, process fear, process frustration, let go of things that no longer serve me and cultivate things that resource and nourish me. 

In times of doubt or despair, my journal is a safe space to hold my tenderness and darkness with compassion and care. Turning towards, accepting, recognising, exploring, with curiosity, my journal is a safe haven of continuity through change as I move into and out of these phases.

Exploring what resonates with the authentic self, values, needs and wellbeing.

At times I have found my journal very useful for exploring what is alive in my hopes and dreams, dared to imagine new directions and how to cultivate my passions, drawn on different forms of journaling practice to shape, plan and realise projects. I have journaled my doubts, challenges, and my confidence and inspiration. Using mindful reflection my journal offers space and perspective to shape a project in line with authentic intentions, recognising when things are driven by old habits and when I am staying true to myself, staying on course with exploring new things that nourish, nurture, inspire, resonate and ground me. 

Creativity, fun, flow and freedom: Connecting to vitality and what is alive in the moment.

By experimenting with all sorts of journaling activities I have explored what comes alive in my connection with life’s ups and downs through art, photography, collecting tactile objects, writing and playing music, reflecting on meditation practice, mindful movement, always curious to find new ways of connecting with the layers within layers of lived experience. 

Live the journey. Live the questions.

My journaling is not so much about finding answers, but more an ongoing voyage of discovery, exploring questions, connecting to whatever is alive in me as I navigate life. 

Over the decades I have explored many different approaches to journaling, and as my Mindfulness practice has developed I have woven these in to my reflection, connection and growth.

Now, as a Mindfulness teacher I hope to offer you an opportunity to explore the possibilities of Mindful journaling and discover what this brings alive for you.

Click here for information about how to take part in my Mindful Journaling course.