Unless otherwise noted: All classes are $300.00 for new or returning students or $250.00 for current Certified Journal Facilitator trainees. They are conducted online in an asynchronous (24/7) learning platform. Classes start on April 5, 2010, and run for 8 weeks through May 28. You will receive detailed information about the learning platform, which you can access from any computer with an internet connection, upon registration. All class sizes are limited to 12.
For more information about the CJF Program, click here. To begin application to the Certified Journal Facilitator program, download and complete Part One. You may register now at the CJF rate with the understanding that Part One of your application must be received before the term begins, and Part Two documents must be received within the first term of enrollment or the difference in trainee and non-trainee tuition will be charged.
Course List: (click to learn more)
TW513: Adams Trilogy
TW523.1: The Power of Memoir
TW524.2: Saved by a Poem
TW533: Body Stories
TW534.1 Visual Journaling: The Art of the Spirit
PD554: Marketing I
PD553: Curriculum Development
PA501: Psychology of Differences
TW513 Adams Trilogy
Janice Putrino LCSW, CJT
Kathleen Adams is considered a primary theorist in the field of journal therapy, along with Ira Progoff and James W. Pennebaker. You'll read, discuss and write from three of her books: The Way of the Journal, The Write Way to Wellness and Scribing the Soul. Required for CJF. Required texts: .
REQUIRED TEXTS: The three listed above, all available from www.journaltherapy.com/bookstore.htm
Janice Putrino is a medical social worker specializing in oncology and the owner of Writing for Wellness. She is the first graduate of the Certified Journal Therapist (CJT) program (April 2009). Janice is co-author of My Healing Companion for Healthcare Providers and was the Outreach Coordinator for Gilda’s Club in Rochester NY, where she conducted journal workshops for those touched by cancer. She is passionate about bringing social science research about writing and healing to the medical and educational communities.
TW523.1 The Power of Memoir
Linda Joy Myers
You'll learn an 8-step plan to create your own memoir, experiment with writing exercises that will demonstrate how writing your truth and shaping your narrative can propel you toward life-changing discoveries, and learn lots of tips, techniques and tools for your own personal or group work.
REQUIRED TEXT: The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story,
available from Amazon.com or from your local bookstore.
Linda Joy Myers, Ph. D., author of The Power of Memoir; Don’t Call Me Mother; and Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story, has been a therapist in Berkeley, CA for nearly 30 years. Dr. Myers combines her background in art, clinical work, and creative writing (MFA, Mills College) to offer unique memoir-as-healing workshops and trainings in the Bay Area and nationally. She is the founder/owner of Memories & Memoirs and the International Association of Memoir Writers, a former president of the California Writers Club, Marin branch, and is on the board of Story Circle Network.
TW524.2 Saved by a Poem
Kim Rosen/with Kay Adams
Poetry, our most ancient form of prayer, is a healing medicine, especially needed in these times of global and personal uncertainty. Whether you are an experienced poetry lover or brand-new to its power, you'll discover new ways that poems can heal, uplift, guide and change us. Required text: Saved by a Poem, Kim Rosen, available on amazon.com or in your local bookstore
REQUIRED TEXT: Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen, available on Amazon.com or in your local bookstore.
Kim Rosen, MFA, has touched listeners around the world with poetry's power to awaken, inspire and heal. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Hay House, 2009) and the co-creator of four CDs of spoken poetry and music, including Only Breath, an interweaving of spoken poems of ancient and modern poets with the music of cellist/composer Jami Sieber. Combining her devotion to poetry with her background as a spiritual teacher and therapist, she gives "Poetry Concerts", inspirational lectures, and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad.
TW533 Body Stories
Debbie McCulliss RN, MSN, CAPF
WThe field of narrative medicine, as created and developed by Dr. Rita Charon at Columbia University, is increasingly becoming a part of medical school training. Having a patient write the body’s story of illness and wellness, and/or having a health care professional write the illness narrative of a patient from a humanistic perspective, has been shown to have powerful effectiveness in helping patients and their doctors forge healing partnerships. In this course you will learn some core theories of narrative medicine and participate in an experiential guided journey through your own body’s stories.
NO TEXT REQUIRED; INTERNET READING ONLY
Debbie McCulliss is a wellness educator and Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator who for the past two years has focused her study on narrative medicine. She has studied under Dr. Charon and other notables in the field and has taught narrative medicine at conferences and as guest lecturer at the University of Denver. Debbie has written her own illness narrative.
TW 534.1 Visual Journaling: The Art of the Spirit
Sibyl Dana Reynolds M.Th.
The uncovering of your symbolic language opens the portals to your spirit and sacred imagination. In this class, rooted in process rather than product, we will explore creative activities such as visual prayer collage cards, a personalized travel box, bodyscape cartography, a circle of wisdom stones, cut-paper iconography and more, all designed to deepen relationship with personal spirituality. The course invites the journaler to move beyond words to experience the waking dream world of images. Photos, magazine and book imagery, ephemera (anything printed, all forms of paper) become the kindling for the creative fire…the art of the spirit.
NO TEXT REQUIRED; INTERNET READING ONLY. Suggested art supplies list provided on registration.
Sibyl Dana Reynolds is a spiritual director and writer. Dana has been a teacher and retreat facilitator for the feminine creative/spiritual process for 20 years. She is on the faculty for Global Ministries University and the mentor for the University’s Masters of Theology in Sacred Arts program. Dana is passionate about the relationship between the creative process and spirituality. She is a student of iconography and icon writing. Additionally, as a labyrinth facilitator and medievalist she recently led a pilgrimage to Chartres Cathedral in France. Dana holds a Bachelor of Religious Studies and Masters of Theology and is trained in spiritual direction. Dana shares life with Don, her husband of forty-two years, near the sea in California.
PD554 Marketing I
Mary Reynolds Thompson CAPF, CJF
The vast majority of "solo-preneurs" in the helping professions – including therapeutic writing facilitators – have had little or no education in how to market their practices and develop their businesses. In this class a former marketer for Harrods in London and other major businesses breaks it down and makes it manageable. You’ll participate in fun marketing sprints, learn surprisingly simple techniques for best results, and challenge your fears and assumptions about marketing yourself and your services.
NO REQUIRED TEXT; INTERNET READING ONLY
Mary Reynolds Thompson is a creativity coach, Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator and Certified Journal Facilitator in Marin County, CA. Her early career was spent in marketing, advertising and copywriting, with special expertise in branding. Mary is the creator of the Write the Damn Book! creative coaching process for those taking the heroic journey from procrastination to publication. She is the author of Awakening the Eco-Soul and has developed a writing program to explore the archetypes of inner landscapes.
PD553 Curriculum Development
Kathleen Adams, LPC, CJT
You'll first learn the four stages of therapeutic writing groups, then an easy, effective method for creating an "arc" of sessions designed for any audience or theme you choose. The end product? A 6-8 week curriculum of your own design for a therapeutic writing workshop/class. This is a laboratory-style class where interactive learning includes offering critique and feedback on other students' work, and receiving critique/feedback on your own work. Required for CJF.
NO REQUIRED TEXT; INTERNET READING ONLY
Kathleen Adams is the founder of the Center for Journal Therapy and the Therapeutic Writing Institute. She is the author of six books in the field of therapeutic writing, including the best-selling Journal to the Self. Since 2003 her work has focused on sharing her accumulated wisdom and knowledge in journal/poetry therapy with therapists, teachers, coaches, healthcare professionals and others who know the power of writing.
PA501 Psychology of Differences
Kate Thompson, MA
This survey course on contemporary issues in mental health is designed to raise awareness about the prevailing causes, responses and treatment of mood disorders, traumatic stress responses, disorders of childhood/adolescence/the elderly, dysfunctional family of origin issues, sexual identity, etc. Required for CJF unless transferred or waived.
NO REQUIRED TEXT; INTERNET READING ONLY
Kate Thompson is a BACP senior accredited Supervisor & Counsellor, journal therapist, writer and vice-chair of Lapidus (Literary Arts for Personal Development) in the UK. She trained in London and in the United States at The Center for Journal Therapy. She has given invited talks and trainings on journal therapy in the UK and the US and has published articles & book chapters on the subject. With Gillie Bolton & Victoria Field she edited Writing Works (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). Kate lives in the Peak District, Derbyshire, U.K.
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