Journaling School | The World We Want | Sunday Sessions

Journaling School | The World We Want is a 5-week journaling mini-course offered online by writer Janisse Ray.

What You Get

Turn your confusion over the national election into greater clarity and a path for moving forward. Join with others who are struggling to understand. Get more clear on your role.

You get 5 session. The Zoom link is the same for all. Pay once, come to all 5.

What

Every Sunday afternoon for five weeks during January and February 2025 Janisse offers you a space to process your emotions on current events, the state of democracy, and the future, as well as envision the world and the life we want.

These are the popular Sunday Sessions, 1 hour on Sunday evening devoted to you and your journal. Many of the exercises are directed toward self-exploration, inspiration, and personal evolution.

When you sign up, you're signing up for all 5 sessions, although that's not clear on Eventbrite. Jan. 12, 2025 is the first session.

The Zoom link you receive will be the same for all 5 sessions.

Sessions will take place from 5-6 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, Jan. 12 | Jan. 19 | Jan. 26 | Feb. 9| and Feb. 16. There will be no session on Feb. 2.

You can come for one session or all five. You will need your

Why Do It

1. The best part is that you get an hour set aside in your busy life to process ideas and feelings, let your creativity flow, and maintain a centering practice. Every exercise can be funneled into whatever larger project you are working on.
2. The second best part is that a lot of us are doing it together.
3. The third is that you determine the price you pay. These journaling sessions are completely by donation, based on the class's value to you. Pay what you can.

Then show up Sunday afternoons at 5 pm Eastern Time for an hour directed toward your emotional wellbeing, toward greater clarity, toward peace, and toward a place of hopefulness and action.

Details

Each session will have a general topic—Courage, Liberty, Lovingkindness, and Future, for example—and the hour consists of

• flow-writes
• journaling exercises
• tiny PowerPoint presentations
• short meditations
• breathing
• readings
• visioning.

This is not a time for sharing. This is a powerful hour that you use for yourself, with Janisse as your guide. You will be welcome to turn off your video. The level of participation is your decision, and participation is always optional.

The vibe will be loving and hopeful.

What You Need

You will need your journal and your sharpened pencils. Have your colored pencils or pens handy if you own some.

Recordings

Recordings will be available afterward, if you need to miss a session.

Biography

Janisse Ray is a writer and author of many books about the community of life. These include Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, The Seed Underground, and Wild Spectacle. Her Substack, Trackless Wild, has over 5K subscribers and her essays have appeared in more than 40 anthologies, most recently Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World (edited by Paul Bogard). She is a national speaker on issues of environmental wholeness and a better world. She lives on an organic farm in the south of Georgia. She's passionate about trees, books, and exploration of the self.

Community Guidelines

We honor the inherent dignity and beauty of all persons regardless of identity, nationality, ethnicity, belief, age, or any other divides. We agree to create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for all. We especially welcome members of historically underserved or excluded communities, understanding that in order to end the fragmentation of the earth's systems, we need every voice of every person to be as elevated and functional and unencumbered by oppressions as humanly possible. This is a safe space where all are welcome.

Note: This course does not in any way substitute for or replace counseling with a certified mental health coach or therapist.

Host or Publisher Janisse Ray