If you’re looking for a feel-good wellbeing activity for your team, a joyful journaling workshop could be it.
Are you planning a team-building day and want to include an engaging wellbeing workshop on the schedule? Or perhaps you’re keen to treat your hardworking staff to a regular morale-boosting activity?
If so, I’d love to be your host! My journaling workshops can be held virtually or in-person, and are well-suited to workplaces because they:
✍️ Introduce journaling as a simple-but-powerful wellbeing practice.
✍️ Create a feel-good, stress-busting atmosphere.
✍️ Encourage playful creativity, whilst remaining accessible (no experience is necessary).
✍️ Provide opportunities for team bonding (without the cringe factor!).
✍️ Require minimal equipment. Everyone will just need their own journal and pens/pencils – though I can supply these if needed.
✍️ Suit all kinds of group sizes. The optimum amount is 8-14 but the sessions can be adapted for smaller or larger groups.
✍️ Can be booked as a one-off session or a longer term journaling course.
You can choose from one of my core journaling themes below, or I can create something bespoke to suit your business. Just get in touch and let me know what you’ve got in mind and we can chat about your options!
Some of the teams I’ve journaled with...
You’ve probably heard that journaling comes with all sorts of incredible mental and physical benefits, from reduced stress and anxiety to improved confidence and self-awareness. But here’s what makes Journal For Joy different:
Positivity
Us humans have a tendency to focus on the negative — and my workshops are a refreshing antidote to that. I guide participants to cultivate a more balanced positive mindset by bringing focus to feelings like gratitude, hope and awe.
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Creativity
Journaling isn’t just about reflective writing. The prompts I share are rooted in playful creativity and encourage participants to tap into their inner child! Expect accessible creative exercises like drawing, poetry and more.
= Joy!
Practicing positive and creative journaling as a group often creates a wonderful joyful energy in the room, and in the individuals involved. And experiencing joy not only feels good in the moment; it can have a magical ripple effect in all areas of our lives, including how we feel and perform at work.
“Our staff creative journaling workshop was so much fun with Hannah…
As a team it really brought us closer together. As the business owner I found it very touching and quite emotional to hear everyone’s kind words and support at the end of the year, and it was filled with a lot of laughter too.
I definitely recommend you try one of these with your team.”
- Ella, Sunshine Cafe & Yoga
“We all agreed that Hannah led the group amazing. It was the perfect balance of relaxing and also encouraging us to step out of our comfort zones.”
- Jodie, Unique Hideaways
“Each exercise supported me to slow down, think and be present.
I left the session with a huge smile on my face and gratitude for the people I had shared the moment with.”
- Gabi, Great Ormond Street Hospital
“Hannah was a ray of sunshine and it’s clear how passionate she is about journalling for wellness.
The workshop provided a lovely introduction to creative journalling with prompts that really got my mind working. It was great to evaluate our state of mind before and after the session to see the benefit of the activity over just a short time. I came away feeling invigorated and excited to start my own positive journal”.
- Rachel, Visit Aberdeenshire
My journaling themes
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The joy boost! is an uplifting workshop that brings focus to feel-good emotions, creates space to explore what joy means to us, and helps us connect with our most joyful selves!
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Featuring prompts from my Hometown Journal, Love where you live is a lighthearted workshop designed to help us see and experience our towns or cities in a joyful new way.
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Find joy in nature is a workshop all about deepening our appreciation for, and connection to, the natural world that surrounds us — and is ideally held in a beautiful outdoor space!
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Want something a little different? I’m always happy to chat about creating a bespoke joyful journaling workshop, tailored to you and your group! I’d love to hear your ideas.
Workshop FAQs
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Whilst I've found 8-14 people to be the optimum number of people for my usual workshop format, I’ve hosted workshops for groups as large as 60! Larger groups are absolutely possibly but there will just have to be no/less sharing and discussion between journaling.
An alternative solution, if you're keen to keep the sharing element, would be to split up your team into groups and run multiple workshops.
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I’ve run workshops in all sorts of places, indoors and outdoors, from offices to yoga studios to beaches! The suitability of the location really depends on the nature of the group but ideally the space should be fairly quiet, dry and offer somewhere to sit and journal comfortably.
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Yes, absolutely! I often host sessions on Zoom and participants usually find them just as valuable, fun and engaging as those that have attended in-person workshops.
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Each participant just needs to bring their own notebook/journal and pens/pencils. I always bring spare paper and a bunch of colourful pens and pencils too, just in case.
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Nope! My workshops are suitable for complete beginners. Although if you or your team members have dabbled in journaling, or even if you’ve been journaling for a long time, I’m sure that you’ll take something new away from the sessions. All experience levels are welcome.
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No. My background is in writing. I am Mental Health First Aid trained but if you’d like me to host a workshop with a group with specific mental health challenges or needs, a member of your team or a caregiver will need to be present.
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This is something that I hear a lot… but the truth is, we’re all creative! Sometimes we don’t feel that way because we don’t make time for it, or we’ve been told that we’re not creative in the past and it’s a belief that’s stuck with us. My workshops are designed so that you can take part and practice playful creativity, even if you have no prior experience of creative writing or drawing. You might even surprise yourself (people often do) 🙂