What is Journalling?
Journalling is the practice of regularly recording one's thoughts, experiences, and reflections, which offers numerous benefits that span across mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
Why Journal?
Journalling is a great tool for supporting your general wellbeing and can help with:
- Setting your self-care intentions
- Managing stress and anxiety
- Reflecting on your experiences
- Identifying and working towards your goals
- Exploring your creativity
Writing about thoughts and feelings can help to reduce stress and anxiety by helping with processing and managing your emotions so that you’re less likely to feel overwhelmed. By journaling about your worries and fears, you can often gain perspective, making your problems seem more manageable. Journalling also acts as a form of emotional release, which can significantly alleviate stress levels.
In addition to stress reduction, journalling can also enhance self-awareness by giving you the opportunity to regularly reflect on your experiences. Reflection encourages a deeper understanding of personal emotions and reactions and helps individuals recognise patterns in their behaviour and emotional triggers. This can help you to develop healthier coping mechanisms. It can also help you to understand your own emotions, which can also help you in empathising with others and communicating more effectively.
There are also significant cognitive benefits of journalling as writing stimulates the brain and improves memory and comprehension. It encourages critical thinking and problem-solving skills by allowing exploration of different perspectives and solutions on paper. This reflective practice can lead to new insights and ideas, fostering creativity and innovation. What’s more, journalling can enhance learning and retention by reinforcing information and concepts through the act of writing them down.
Introduction to Journalling workshop
Join the upcoming one-hour online (Teams) workshop to explore the benefits of journaling, a brief history and different types of journalling. Participants will have the opportunity to join a brief grounding exercise at the start and also have the chance to practice journal writing with a reflective exercise.
What You’ll Need
All you need is paper, a notebook or a journal and a pen or pencil.
Details and how to register
There's no need to sign up in advance for this session - simply click on the link below to join. Please contact Lucy Mu at L.H.Mu@lse.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Wednesday 14 August at 12noon
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Meeting ID: 378 814 590 792
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