What is the Journal to the Self Workshop?
What is the Instructor Certification Training?
Program Contents
Home Study or Intensive?
How Long Does It Take?
What Have Others Had to Say About ICT?
Difference Between a Certified Instructor and a Journal Therapist
NBCC-Approved Continuing Education
Program Fees, Materials Fees & Special Savings
Submitting Your Application
For More Information
What is the Journal to the Self® Workshop?
The Journal to the Self workshop is a 12-hour course on how to keep a journal for personal growth, creative expression and life enrichment. It was created in 1985 by Kathleen Adams LPC, PTR, Director of the Center for Journal Therapy, Inc., and internationally known pioneer and expert in the power of writing to heal. The early years of the workshop formed the research base for Kathleen Adams' best-selling book, Journal to the Self, published by Warner Books in 1990. Tens of thousands of people have learned this easy, effective, empowering model of journal keeping through the Journal to the Self method. The workshop is adaptable to nearly any population, from children to seniors, and to nearly any special interest group.
What is the Instructor Certification Training?
The Instructor Certification Training is a professional skills training that prepares qualified individuals to teach the Journal to the Self curriculum, or facilitate groups using its methods, in their own communities.
Home Study or Intensive?
The ICT is offered in two formats:
- Home-study, in which all learning is undertaken via written material and CDs or internet-based learning, and
- A four-day intensive directly with Kathleen Adams in Denver, which includes a practice teaching component, a full day of marketing and business development, other interactive learning, and community with peers from around the US and the world.
The fee for a two-year certification is $1200 for home-study and $1500 for the intensive. The cost of the intensive includes materials to complete Stage 1 of the course via home study. Initial certification is for two years; biennial recertification fees are $150.
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How Long Does It Take?
Although the home-study course is self-paced, we expect everyone to be complete within 6 months of acceptance of application, and we encourage everyone to complete it within 90 days. The Intensive is complete in four consecutive days of training (arrive Monday afternoon, leave Friday afternoon). The ICT Intensive is held at the Loretto Spirituality Center, Denver, Colorado.
Space in the ICT Intensive is limited to 12 people and will be on a first-come basis. You are strongly encouraged to submit your application and deposit for the Intensive one month prior to ICT Intensive.
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Program Contents
- Journal to the Self® workshop on four CDs
- Journal to the Self® workbook for personal use
- Journal to the Self® book (teaching copy)
- Complete step-by-step curriculum in a teaching manual
- Training CD of Instructor Interviews (replaced by 1-on-1 instruction for Intensive)
- Training CD on the Logistics and Philosophy of Teaching (replaced by 1-on-1 instruction for Intensive)
- Training CD on Marketing and Networking (replaced by 1-on-1 instruction for Intensive)
- Electronic artwork for your own Journal to the Self® brochures
- Membership in an internet support/resource group via an e-mail list (first 2 years)
- Listing in the Instructor Directory at www.journaltherapy.com with link to your website and/or e-mail (first 2 years)
- Wholesale pricing (50% off) on Journal to the Self® Workbook for your students (recoverable with a materials fee)
- First five copies of Journal to the Self® Workbook
- Wholesale pricing (50% off) on Journal to the Self as optional text (through the publisher, Hachette Book Group)
- Unlimited license to teach the Journal to the Self® workshop anywhere in the world for two years -- the only requirement is that each student you teach be provided a Journal to the Self® Workbook
- At the end of two years, recertification is available at the rate of $150 for 2 years (includes listing in the directory and subscription to e-mail list).
- Optional support services include group telecoaching at $80/hour and individual telecoaching at $125/hour, both with master teacher Kathleen Adams
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What have others had to say about the ICT Intensive and Home Study programs?
Listen to Carolyn's experience of the ICT Intensive! Click the Play button to hear:
Susan loved her home study Instructor Certification Training. Click the Play button to listen to her story here:
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The Difference Between a Certified Instructor and a Journal Therapist
Although many Certified Instructors
hold graduate degrees and work as counselors or psychotherapists,
you do not need to be a psychotherapist or helping professional
to become a Certified Instructor and teach the Journal to the Self® workshop.
But even if you are already trained as a psychotherapist, this program
does NOT prepare you to be, or call yourself a journal therapist.
NBCC-Approved Continuing Education
The Instructor Certification Training program is approved for continuing
education credit for LPCs, NCCs and other licensed psychotherapy
professionals through the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC).
For a modest
additional materials and administrative fee, and upon completion
of all NBCC evaluation and testing requirements, you may receive up to
30 hours
(home study) or 46 hours (Intensive) of NBCC-approved continuing
education credit.
If you are in training as a certified applied poetry
facilitatior
(CAPF), certified poetry/journal therapist (CPT) or registered
poetry/journal therapist (PTR), the home-study ICT counts as 30 didactic
hours and the
Intensive counts as 36 didactic and 8 peer hours.
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Fee for Instructor Certification Training
The Journal to the Self® Instructor Certification Training is a professional training that is designed specifically to enhance income-producing capacity. The fee for training is a one-time fee that is not subject to payment of additional royalties, percentages of income or commissions. It is completely reasonable to expect to earn this fee back within your first two or three Journal to the Self® classes (based on a per-person fee of $150-200 paid by 4-6 students per class) or, if you are a psychotherapist, your first 4-6 weeks of a facilitated journal group (based on 6 people paying $50-75 per 90 minutes per group).
Once you have repaid yourself for the cost of the training, all income is 100% yours with no hidden costs or charges. The only additional required cost for the first two years of unlimited teaching is the purchase, at wholesale, of one Journal to the Self® Workbooks for each student you teach. This material fee can and should be added to the price of your workshop. Individual or group telecoaching and other business development tools are optional services available at reasonable additional costs.
The 2010 fee for the home-study course is $1200, and the four-day Intensive course is $1500. Similar certification trainings with those having the expertise and mastery of Kathleen Adams and the income-producing potential of the ICT are $2500-5000 or even higher. The fee is payable as follows: $50.00 as a deposit when your application is submitted, and the balance when your Application is approved. Other financial arrangements may be made on a case-by-case basis. In the event your application is not accepted, this amount will be returned in full. All payments for the Intensive must be made no later than two weeks prior to the event.
For international applicants there is a postal surcharge of $50 US or actual postage charges incurred, whichever is higher.
Costs to attend the Intensive (including transportation, lodging and meals) are extra. The Loretto Spirituality Center offers a special conference rate for single rooms with private bath for four nights at $350.
Materials Fee
Certified Instructors are asked to provide a copy of the Journal to the Self® Workbook to each of their students at a cost to the Certified Instructor of $5.50 (or less, in volume) per workbook, which cost can be passed on to the student as a materials fee. At their option, Certified Instructors may also purchase Journal to the Self in minimum quantities of 25 for a 50% wholesale discount (currently $7 per book).
Submitting Your Journal to the Self® Instructor Training Application
Please complete our Application Packet and return it to us. You may fax your completed application and its attachments to the Center for Journal Therapy at (303) 985-3903; e-mail it as a Microsoft Word file to the email address training @ journaltherapy. com; or mail it to:
Center for Journal Therapy
3798 Marshall St., Suite #5
Wheat Ridge CO 80033
For More Information
For a comprehensive look at the Center for Journal Therapy, please browse our web site. Be sure to browse the Library and the Instructor Directory.
Questions?
Call 888-421-2298.
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