PowerFULL Magical Visual Journals:

a creative process that can change your life (seriously!)

First of all, you might be wondering: What is visual journaling and how can it help me? In my book, The Creative Entrepreneur, I present  strategies for harnessing the creative process in service of making your dreams and ideas real. All of the tools presented—from dealing with inner blocks to developing business ideas and creating promotional plans—use visual journaling techniques.

Creatives tend to be visual, action-oriented learners. We respond to visual stimuli. We also need to be engaged in a personal, meaningful way with the material we are learning. For the past 20 years, I have taught visual journaling as a powerful way to develop problem-solving abilities and gain insights in ways that linear, nonvisual approaches to thinking and learning don't access.

Visual journaling helps us go beyond what we know in our rational mind, so we can access other ways of knowing—the kind of knowing that results in truly original thinking, ideas, and creative breakthroughs.

But how do you create a visual journal, exactly? How is visual journaling different than art journaling or morning pages or gratitude journals or vision maps?

Common Dilemmas

Maybe you've tried keeping a visual journal, or art journal before, and got hung up on some common dilemmas: like wanting your pages to look artistic, or not knowing how much to journal, or write, over everything. Or wondering how much to cover over your writing with imagery? Or wrestle with fear regarding of who might want to see your pages, especially if you publish or blog about your work. Or perhaps you've found that having to get out art supplies keeps you from working in your journal at all, but you don't just want to write, either. Most of all, you might have wondered how keeping a visual journal translates to actual results in your creative and business life.

Uncommon Solutions

I've kept visual journals, sketchbooks and written journals my whole life, and I have confronted those issues myself and with thousands of students over the last two decades. Trial and error, experimentation, passion for the process, and continual refinement of techniques that work—resulted in putting together all of these solutions into the Power Visual Journaling workshop.

In the Power Visual Journaling workshop you will learn:

• The secrets to creating a journal you will actually work in and use regularly
  
• All about art supplies: the best, cheapest, funnest— and most meaninigful— ways to incorporate imagery into your journal
  
• Ways of dealing with procrastination, self-criticism, judgments and other emotions that keep us from not working
  
• How deal with wanting your pages to look "artistic" and still get your rough ideas down. Yes, you can have both!
  
• All about writing: what to write, when to write, how to write and layer images—learn the techniques that work for you
  
• How to return to your journal after an absence
  
• Ways of finding support and comraderie for your creative process that support your ways of working
• What we mean by "Secret": Surprising and fun ways of getting your ideas out without fear of prying eyes
• How to integrate your practices: What about morning pages, dream journals, gratitude journals and other stuff?

What you'll get
These are incredibly powerful practices that align your conscious and subconscious mind, and make the most of your left and right brain strengths. We will practice and apply these tools using fun, engaging visual journaling processes that you can adapt and continue to use on your own, long after the workshop.

You will leave with a custom-created visual journal brimming with texture, pattern, color, and verbal and visual cues to kick start your imagination, along with plenty of inspiration and support to keep going long after the workshop.