Unless otherwise noted: All classes are $300.00 for new students or $250.00 for current Certified Journal Facilitator trainees. They are conducted online in an asynchronous (24/7) learning platform, start on January 18, 2010, and run for 8 weeks. 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 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)
TW511: Intensive Journal Method I
TW512: Pennebaker/BD5651 Intro to Research
TW524: Word Arts Collage: Intro to Poetry Therapy
TW531: Writing Through Transitions
TW532: Writing from the Natural World
TW534.1 Visual Journaling: The Art of the Spirit
BD552: Vision & Manifestation
PA503: Group Process I
TW511 Intensive Journal® Method I
Robb Jackson, PhD, MFA, CAPF, CJF
The work of Dr. Ira Progoff is foundational for anyone studying the theory and practice of therapeutic writing. The Intensive Journal method is considered by many to be one of the greatest and most enduring personal growth tools available today. In this depth class you’ll explore, through guided book discussion and the creation of your own Progoff journal, the writing processes and techniques that comprise the basic Intensive Journal method. Topics studied include Period Log, Daily Log, Dialogue Dimension and Life/Time Dimension. (Prereq for Intensive Journal Method II in Spring 2010, which explores the Depth Dimensions.)
REQUIRED TEXT: At a Journal Workshop
Robb Jackson is the Haas Professor of English, specializing in creative writing, at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He has facilitated therapeutic writing groups in his community for more than 20 years and currently is in his 4th year facilitating poetry and journal groups for a residential substance abuse treatment facility for non-violent felons. Robb has both studied and practiced the Intensive Journal method. He is the author of a book of poetry, Living on the Hurricane Coast. Robb has earned his Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator and Certified Journal Facilitator credentials and is core faculty for this program.
TW512 Pennebaker/BD565.1 Intro to Research
Janice Putrino LCSW, CJT
Dr. James W. Pennebaker is the leading social science researcher in the field of writing and healing. His landmark studies correlating emotional release writing with improved physiological functioning have given evidence-based research to the field and a highly practical and effective tool for those who use his simple writing methods. This class incorporates both an experiential component – guided writes based on the Pennebaker model – and an introduction to finding social science research to add credibility to your work, whether it be your own website, proposals for hospitals and clinics, grantwriting, and more.
REQUIRED TEXT: Writing to Heal, James Pennebaker
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.
TW524 Word Arts Collage: Intro to Poetry Therapy
Peggy Heller, PhD, LCSW, PTR
Whether you are new to the therapeutic aspects of poetry or a seasoned practitioner, this class offers a wide array of “wordscapes” – creative processes devised to evoke poetic response and enhance communication within individuals and between people in therapy groups and classrooms – as well as a five-stage theoretical model of poetry therapy. You’ll receive momentum for new creative adventures, inspiration for the uses of “word arts” in everyday life, a deepened appreciation for the role of metaphor in poetry and living, and a solid foundation in the core theory of poetry therapy.
REQUIRED TEXT: Word Arts Collage: A Poetry Therapy Memoir,
Peggy Osna Heller (available from author, peggyheller@verizon.net
Peggy Osna Heller is a Diplomate in clinical social work. She has taught courses in poetry therapy at The Catholic University School of Social Service in Washington, D.C. and at Lesley College. A lecturer and workshop leader nationally, she has held poetry therapy positions at hospitals and treatment centers. She founded the Poetry Therapy Training Institute and co-founded the Wordsworth Center for Poetry Therapy Training. Recently retired from mentoring and supervising poetry therapy, Peggy maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Potomac MD. She is the author of Word Arts Collage: A Poetry Therapy Memoir.
TW531 Writing Through Transitions
Leia Francisco, MA, CJF, CAPF
Given the complex and rapid nature of change today, we need powerful tools to manage our transitions and our emotional response to change. Too often we focus on the external change process without appreciating and leveraging the personal psychological orientation to change. You will study the stages of psychological transitions, transitional tasks of adulthood, and writing tools for navigating change and exploring the creative potential of personal transitions. This is a largely untapped area in therapeutic writing. The class emphasizes experiential learning, using explicit writing techniques that create your personal “transition history” for future reference and developing practical writing tools for a variety of client needs during transition.
REQUIRED TEXT: Writing Through Transitions by Leia Francisco, available in hardcopy or ebook from the author's web site at www.leiafrancisco.com/book.html, and Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Leia Francisco is a life/business coach who specializes in transitions. Leia’s blended career includes teaching college writing and authoring the textbook, Common Sense Writing. As a policy and program director for women’s initiatives in the Washington, D.C. area, for 20 years, she served as a master trainer, coach and leader for women, especially in career management. After starting her coaching business in 2002, she became a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator and Certified Journal Facilitator. Leia leads workshops on journaling and transitions, both online and in the Texas Hill Country. She is core faculty for this program.
TW532 Writing from the Natural World
Mary Reynolds Thompson CAPF, CPCC
What if the primary text of the world is the world itself? What if every lichen-covered stone and caroling creek could help us understand who we are and how to live? In this course we will go to nature with a listening spirit, open to its meaning and messages. Whether you live in the city, country, or suburbs, in a wintry climate or temperate one, this class invites you to deepen your relationship with your inner nature through writing from the natural world. Notice how the outer landscapes influence our inner landscapes of mood, thought, and feeling. See how winter exhibits differently around the country and how our responses vary accordingly. Explore how different writers and poets respond to similar natural stimuli, and examine what shifts within when we seek out nature as a source of wisdom.
NO TEXT REQUIRED; INTERNET READING ONLY
Mary Reynolds Thompson is a certified life coach and facilitator of poetry and journal therapy. She teaches, consults, writes, and coaches individuals, groups, and organizations across the country and internationally. Mary has roamed the farthest reaches of the planet, from the highest points of the Himalayas to the tip of Tierra del Fuego, deepening her relationship with the sacred earth. She spends many hours walking the trails around where she lives, learning to slow down and pay attention to what the wild has to teach her –– teach all of us who are searching for a richer understanding of our own wild nature. Exploring her inner wilderness has been key to Mary’s work. Her journey of eco-spirituality includes a decades-long successful recovery from alcoholism that grounds her in an understanding of how we can all awaken from the addictive trance of the modern world.
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.
BD552 Vision & Manifestation
Kathleen Adams LPC, CJT, PTR
The laws of nature tell us that energy follows the path of least resistance, that tension seeks resolution, and that everything has an underlying structure. In this lively course based on the brilliant work of Robert Fritz, you’ll learn the essential concepts and steps to create what you want out of the power of your conscious choice, using practical laws of applied science. You’ll learn the four fundamental choices that successful manifestors make, the power of “create and adjust,” and a simple guided imagery technique that moves your vision into actualization. You’ll practice all of it and more through the manifestation of your course-long practice vision. Fun, easy and amazingly effective!
OPTIONAL TEXT: The Path of Least Resistance
Kathleen Adams is the founder of the Center for Journal Therapy and creator of the Certified Journal Facilitator/Certified Journal Therapist programs and the author of Journal to the Self and five other books on therapeutic writing. She led her first journal group in 1985 and hasn't ever stopped. Since 2003 her work has focused on sharing her accumulated wisdom and knowledge in journal and poetry therapy with therapists, teachers, coaches, healthcare professionals and others who know the power of writing. Kay studied with Robert Fritz in the mid-1980s and immediately began integrating his teachings. Among her first creations were the Journal to the Self® workshop and the Center for Journal Therapy. She has practiced these principles to manifest her visions for a better world for the past 25+ years. Her life reflects the outcomes.
PA503 Group Process I
Kate Thompson, MA, CJT
Therapeutic writing is often best achieved in groups, yet few practitioners have specifically developed skills in group facilitation. Using the quintessential book in the field of group process, Irvin Yalom’s Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, this class serves as a first course for developmental practitioners and a review for licensed clinicians or credentialed coaches. You’ll develop the confidence and theoretical competence to responsibly facilitate groups for healing and change.
REQUIRED TEXT: Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, FIFTH EDITION
Kate Thompson, MA 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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