Journal Harvesting

Are old journals collecting dust somewhere in your home? This workshop is for writers who have spent time journaling and aren’t sure what do with all those journals now. Your journals have been a place for seed-planting. By reading and working with content from our old journals, we invite self-discovery of a certain period of our lives. Noticing our patterns helps us to see which ideas have blossomed. We can see which struggles we have overcome and with which struggles we continue to wrestle. We will notice how Spirit moved in our lives then, and now. Some of our activities will include: creating a journey map of a journal, and using rediscovered content to write poems, stories, essays and/or make art.

Please bring the following to this workshop:

1. a favorite pen;
2. a former journal that you have re-read prior to the workshop;
3. a fresh/current journal for new writing;
4. curiosity;
5. a willingness to go harvest those seeds you planted long ago.

Leader(s)

Jesse White is the Arts and Spirituality Coordinator at Pendle Hill. She holds a B.A. in Integrative Studies: Creative and Spiritual Process joined with a B.A. in Psychology from Guilford College. Jesse works as an arts educator and art therapist and directs Pigeon Arts, a cathartic art-making organization in Philadelphia. She is a member of Frankford Friends Meeting (PA).

Travel directions to Pendle Hill. Click to view the Winter-Spring 2018 Arts and Spirituality Programs brochure. Click to view the flyer.