Connecting Space Journals

Welcome to this Creative Space!

It is our hope that this Space will become safe enough for you to connect with others, whether through actively contributing or by being an interested listener and supporter.

• Space to connect on a therapeutic and personal level

Kate has found, in the sharing of her journey, strength to face her fears. Writing the letters on particular themes has enabled her to express her personal inner struggles. The witnessing of those struggles by others is therapeutic for her. She often speaks from her professional role as a psychotherapist. This may be new to you so please ask her questions if you find some of what she says out of reach or confusing.

• Offering a supportive network,

At the end of each letter there is the opportunity for you to reply to the person: to express what has stirred you, to ask questions of the writer or to offer hope to them from your own experience.

• Finding your voice and being heard

Whether you are a listener to the Journeys of others, a quiet supporter, or someone who likes to contribute or someone looking for answers, we hope you will be able to hear your inner voice more clearly. When you do hear that voice, your inner response, you may want others to hear, too.

• Sharing your personal journey. The effects, the consequences, the choices.

If you are stimulated to share your own personal journey, please write some of your ideas in an email and send to Jill. You will be offered help in the initial stages of preparing to start this new thread of discussion.

• Affirming your sense of self as an individual through this connection

By following the journey of another person your own sense of self may be awoken to new areas of thought and experience. We want this to be an affirming experience for you: the defining of who you are as different, but just as valuable as the next person.

• Use of pseudonym

It may help you to be more relaxed in contributing if you use a pseudonym: another name of your choice. This is good protective practice to help your inner voice to find space to grow in secret - like the planting of a seed.

• Other Areas:

Please use the other areas of discussion. You may want to tell others about a poem you have written or heard, or share some music, good books, or artwork. Kate is hoping to contribute drawings she has done whilst awaiting chemo.

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• Here are some of the categories that journal letters appear under:

Art Matters
Body Matters
Family Matters
Healing Matters
Health Matters
Music Matters
Narrative Matters
Poetry Matters
Relationship Matters
Therapy Matters

- If something from another person’s letter sparks off a different train of thought, a new letter in a different category can be made.

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