Workshop Offerings
Journal As Altar: How to Get Started Workshop
Start here if you are new to Journal As Altar, and if you’d like to explore core concepts around keeping journals as altars.
*this is a pre-recorded workshop
Journaling Practices for Navigating Grief & Trauma
I designed this workshop for those of us who have ever felt our creative practices interrupted or otherwise impacted by our own grief and trauma. Additionally, this workshop is for those of us who’d like to explore a creative journaling practice as an aid in being with the grief and trauma in our lives. How can our journals hold us, offer containment? How can our creative practices walk alongside us as we wade through experiences with loss and pain? Through my own experience, and from feedback I’ve gathered over the years through Journal As Altar and Collective Action Consulting, I put together content that speaks to the themes I have heard from many people. This is an offering right from my heart, and my hope is that it offers you solace, inspiration, and a sense of belonging. You are not alone in all that you hold.
*this is a pre-recorded workshop
Caring for the Collective: Journal As Altar for Trauma Workers, Healers, Helpers & Caregivers
If you are exposed to trauma, injustice and crisis in your work, community, and/or familial roles, you may be feeling the weight of vicarious trauma. The Caring for the Collective workshop is here for you. Vicarious trauma is the ongoing process of change in your wellbeing and perspective over time that results from the continuous witnessing of other people's suffering, trauma, and unmet needs. It is a normal response to walking alongside people experiencing harm, crisis, disaster. And! There’s a lot we can do about it. This workshop embraces the idea that a creative journaling practice can help us sort through vicarious trauma, light our paths, connect to the collective, and equip ourselves with resources to stay afloat.
🎀 This workshop is different than the “Journaling Practices for Navigating Grief and Trauma” workshop, as it is specifically designed for people exposed to vicarious trauma in their work or other roles (whereas the other workshop is for direct survivors of trauma and loss).
*this is a pre-recorded workshop
Your journal is rooting for you.
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Your journal is rooting for you. 〰️
Starter Workshop
Your journal can become an altar.
In this foundational virtual workshop, you will learn how to:
Ground yourself in journaling as a sacred self-care practice
Set up your journal as an altar and create pages that become prayers
Release perfectionism and supremacy thinking that can inhibit creativity and healing
Utilize new art journal techniques
Explore art mediums
Rely on ritual and routine to guide you
Write/create for yourself and for the world you wish to see
Details:
Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before the event
Replay of the workshop, available through 8/08/21
Bonus #1: All participants who register and provide mailing address will receive a mini Journal As Altar kit in the mail,
containing new, custom JAA stickers, ephemera, labels, journal prompts, etc.Bonus #2: Raffle entry into the Journal As Altar giveaway for all workshop registrants who live in the US;
see my Instagram account for more information about the giveaway items.10% of proceeds will benefit Taking Ownership PDX
Please contact me at journal.as.altar@gmail.com if you would like to attend but don’t have funds. There are 4 scholarship slots available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Cost: $50
* Example of what’s included in JAA kits sent to workshop participants. Contents vary.