Journaling for Health & Personal Growth
This interactive workshop explores journaling--a tool for developing greater self-awareness, managing stress, and clarifying changes you want and need to make. Whether writing about life transitions, health, stress, weight management or grief issues, journaling offers a bridge to improved health and well-being.
Current research demonstrates that journal writing can improve your health, coping skills, immune system functioning, cognitive abilities and emotional adaptations to stressful events. Journaling also fosters a deeper, intuitive connection to the emotional and spiritual dimensions of personal growth. Combining imaginative writing exercises with mind-body medicine skills, we will explore the healing, creative possibilities of journaling to nurture your personal focus and developing writing voice.
Current research demonstrates that journal writing can improve your health, coping skills, immune system functioning, cognitive abilities and emotional adaptations to stressful events. Journaling also fosters a deeper, intuitive connection to the emotional and spiritual dimensions of personal growth. Combining imaginative writing exercises with mind-body medicine skills, we will explore the healing, creative possibilities of journaling to nurture your personal focus and developing writing voice.
This six-session workshop for new or experienced journal writers includes:
- discussion of journaling methods and mind-body medicine practices
- relaxation, writing and visualization exercises
- shared group support and insights
- helpful resource materials
Please bring a notebook or journal and pen.
Instructor: Suzanne Olson, MSW, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. She has taught previous Journaling classes through HIP and has worked as a Health Coach for Women's Health at Stanford University. For over thirty years she has kept a personal journal and has attended many writing workshops.
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Instructor: Suzanne Olson, MSW, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. She has taught previous Journaling classes through HIP and has worked as a Health Coach for Women's Health at Stanford University. For over thirty years she has kept a personal journal and has attended many writing workshops.
Date
May 24 - June 21, 2007
Time6:00-8:00pm
Fee
$240.00
Location
1101 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA
Phone
(650) 723-9649