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CREATIVE JOURNALING Expressive Arts  

CREATIVE JOURNALING

Creative Journaling is a tool for self-expression that will help you heal, grow and express yourself.

If you’ve ever kept a diary, then you already have a good idea of what Creative Journaling is all about. It doesn’t take any special skills. You don’t have to be a great writer, and you can use the tools you learn in Creative Journaling anywhere and anytime you wish.

Creative Journaling is an incredibly effective tool for self -communication, it allows you to recognize your feelings create your dreams understand the emotional issues that lead to physical symptoms.

Lucia Capachionne pioneered the approach of dialoguing between the dominant and non dominant hands Using our two hands allows us access to both our right and left brain The left brain helps us deal with our world in a logical, rational way.

The right brain provides creativity, intuitiveness, and artistic expression. It allows us to express emotions and to connect with our spiritual selves CJEA methods seek to integrate the brain’s two hemispheres, and it does this by using both hands so we can experience life more fully and be more aware of both our conscious and unconscious worlds.

CJEA methods use this emotional awareness to empower participants to live healthier lives, thus effecting their physical and emotional health and relationships.

In addition, participants have an increased ability to discover and work toward a fulfilling vision for their lives.

CJEA WORKSHOPS ARE VERY UNIQUE.
THEY ARE CHARACTERIZED BY
ENJOYABLE ACTIVITIES THAT
ENCOURAGE PARTICIPANTS TO OPEN UP
TO ASPECTS OF THEMSELVES PREVIOUSLY
LOCKED AWAY IN UNCONSCIOUSNESS.
UNLIKE “TALK ORIENTED” WORKSHOPS,
CJEA SESSIONS ARE EXPERIENTIAL AND
QUITE RELAXING.

Creative Journaling is a valuable self-communication tool for:

  • personal and spiritual growth
  • promoting positive health and healing
  • dialoging with your inner child work
  • creativity development
  • life planning and career/talent development
  • reparenting work

Creative Journaling can help you use self-communication to:

  • Express your thoughts and feelings
  • Experiment with expressing yourself through color, images and symbols
  • Think deeply about and reason on life experiences that seem random
  • Think about your choices and make decisions more consciously
  • Define goals and dreams for change in your life
  • Gain a clearer picture of your own creative potential, as well as how to use it
  • Open up blocked or negative creative paths and patterns
  • Enrich relationships and find deeper meaning for your life

Journaling must be confidential to be effective. Journaling requires complete emotional honesty, as it is a powerful tool that can bring about many pent-up and stifled emotions. Creative Journaling is an excellent method of self-communication for discovering your deepest feelings about many different overwhelming life experiences and a compelling example of how a deeper focus on self–communication can alleviate the physical symptoms of emotional issues.

You do not have to be in the middle of a crisis to benefit from Creative Journaling, however. As a vital process in creative growth and expression, Creative Journaling can be the beginning of an exciting period of personal growth and your journal will soon become your best friend in good times and bad.