Journaling as Mediation for the Busy Mind - How to start, maintain and deepen your journaling practice:
A Workshop with Jennifer Convissor, LCSW
In this hands-on workshop, Jennifer will share how to start, deepen and maintain a personalized journaling practice. She will share current motivational science, plus the benefits one can expect as a beginner, intermediate and advanced journaler. She will also relate how a life of journaling has helped her manage her ADHD and allowed her to be the active author of her own life story.
During this workshop, you will…
Receive a copy of Journaling for Non-Journalers and be guided through how to use it as an easy and accessible tool for creating a personalized journaling practice.
Gain insight into how Jennifer prescribes journal prompts and specific modalities to her patients based on their current challenges and desires.
Hear how journaling helps develop self-compassion & the development of an inner “good coach”.
See how journaling helps improve focus, lessen reactivity and manage feelings.
Learn Jennifer's recommendations for how, when & where to journal, as well as how to journal when you don’t feel like journaling!
The Journaling for Non-Journalers book will be used as a workbook for this evening. We recommend buying your copy through our inclusive workshop price, in order to avoid shipping costs and ensure your book arrives on-time.
Register now! Two options: $28 covers the price of the book (at a 10% discount) and the workshop fee. $10 covers the workshop fee for those who already have the book. Click the appropriate button below to register.
Workshop Facilitator:
Jennifer Convissor is a licensed clinical social worker who and founded of LiveWork Solutions, a holistic psychotherapy practice serving New York and Connecticut. She began journaling when she was 13 years old, pouring her heart out, into a spare spiral notebook, on her bedroom floor. Over the next 35 years, she’s kept bedside dream journals, colorful travel journals, bi-coastal friend journals, dating diaries, parent/child journals and more! She credits journaling for helping deepen her insight, improve her communication skills, manage her ADHD and manifest a life she loves. She currently lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY with her husband, pandemic puppy and two cool kids. In her spare time, she’s a singer-songwriter, rabid crafter and vegan ice-cream sundae artiste.
In June 2020, COVID forced her to leave her position as coordinator of mental health services for her local community center. In that role, she provided counseling to members and staff, ran trainings for employees and facilitated workshops. During quarantine, she found one cancelled workshop preoccupied her in particular. She’d been developing a program called, “Life Map: Journaling for Growth.” She had been excited to finally blend her lifelong journaling practice with her passion for mental health.
Later that year, she had successfully took this ideas online, developing The Transformative Journal School with two self-led courses, “Introduction to the Transformative Journal” and “The Process Journal: Active meditation for busy minds.” These courses led to a series of webinars for mental health professionals, but Jennifer also longed to help combat collective “screen fatigue” and her supporters’ desire for a more tangible, interactive product. By October of 2021, she had published a guided journal/comprehensive introduction to journaling called, Journaling for Non-Journalers: Your expert guide to creating a journaling practice that works for you.
This book is a culmination of her experience as a journaler for 30+ years experience , she has the dual experience of seeing her own life transformed through journaling and witnessing its healing effects in the lives of her clients. Weaving her research into motivational science and myriad different journaling techniques, her book is like a “couch to 5k” for journaling. At the end of the two 14 day challenges, the non-journaler finds themselves a journal with a talior-made practice suitable to their needs and lifestyle.