Overview
Journaling is a practice of creating space each day for self-care. The student experience often involves navigating difficult emotions, feeling of failure, or at times feeling like an imposter. Journaling can help you better understand your experiences to feel empowered and whole as you work towards your academic and personal goals. In this 3-part workshop series, you’ll learn how to start and maintain a journaling practice that can hold all your questions, ideas, and challenges around who you are, finding belonging, creating connection and building joy.
Session Format
Each session is 1 hour long. There are no special tools or materials you need to participate. In addition to a relatively quiet and comfortable space, you’ll need paper and a pen. Your writing tool just has to work and feel good in your hand. Any exercise book will do for your journal; it doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. In fact, a simple notebook from the school supply section of your local shop will do the trick of holding all your ideas, thoughts and feelings in one place, and that’s all you need.
No previous knowledge or experience required
Facilitators
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Jasjit Sangha
PhD, Learning Strategist, Identity and Learning
Jasjit Sangha, PhD is a Learning Strategist, Identity and Learning with Academic Success. She brings comprehensive experience to her work with students through her background in adult learning, student development, equity and inclusion. Her knowledge of learning is also informed by her work teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, courses she has taken on the neuroscience of mindfulness and self-compassion, as well as her work as a Search Inside Yourself Certified Instructor, in which she brings together research and teaching on emotional intelligence, neuroscience, mindfulness and leadership.
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Day Milman
Manager, Integrated Arts Education
Originally from the unceded territory of the Hul'qumi'num people on Vancouver Island, Day is an educator and artist who has lived in Tkaronto for the past two decades. She employs innovative arts-based methods to engage students in exploring issues of equity, deepening compassion and understanding, and creating platforms for connection and first-person experiences. Some of her recent projects include the audio/visual exhibitions Reframing Difference, Indigenous Language Moments, and The Change Room Project. She is a lover and a fighter.
Note
In order to register for this workshop series, you must be a currently registered U of T student.