Class Title: Celebrate Your Journey Instructor: Dawn Espelage Class Term: March 12-April 16, 2012 enroll in this class Synopsis A journal writing workshop designed to enhance sense of self and worth, clarify values, honor life's blessings and write the future you want. Class Description Participants will explore, re-define and envision their journeys through the use of writing exercises such as Passageways, Treasure Chest, Anchors, Snapshot, Journey Map and Inner Compass. Journaling prompts will guide the participant in self-discovery, creativity, acceptance and moving forward. The class will meet online in a Yahoo group; there will be one individual phone call at the beginning of the class.The instructor will also be available by e-mail. All participants will receive a free copy of the journal writing workbook Life Lines: Celebrate Your Journey. Outline Unit One: Introductions: to each other and to journaling. Unit Two: Baggage: Obstacles and pathways. Unit Three: Explorations: Values, validation, and blessings. Unit Four: Crossroads: Celebrating, dreaming, and reframing. Student Skills, Equipment, and Time Required Internet access, ability to use email and Yahoo Groups. About 90 minutes weekly required to complete the journal writing exercises, share and read postings in the Yahoo Group. Tuition/Fees for this course SCN members: $128. Non-SCN members: $160. Instructor Bio Dawn Espelage is the author of Life Lines: Celebrate Your Journey. She is a Certified Journal Instructor through The Center of Journal Therapy and has worked in the social work field for 13 years. She has written two journal-writing workbooks, Life Lines: Celebrate Your Journey and Celebrate Your Journey: Monthly Planner and Journal Companion. She has previously taught online for SCN. Visit her website.