Visual Journaling: Going Deeper Than Words

Most people who journal use words. But words come from the left brain, which interprets experiences through our learned beliefs and expectations. As this breakthrough book demonstrates, there is a more effective way to journal---using images. Simple drawings, crayon art, even doodles and stick figures can help anyone---even those who believe they "can't draw"---move beyond thought into deep reaches of feeling and intuitive knowing. Barbara Ganim and Susan Fox have developed their Visual Journaling technique into an acclaimed workshop. This book, beautifully illustrated with black and white and color drawings from the journals of students in their workshops, makes this enjoyable tool for personal exploration accessible to everyone. A six-week plan of exercises and interpretive activities teaches readers a lifelong practice that can reduce stress, explore conflicts, and overcome obstacles. Its simple techniques can help everyone gain access to "soul-based" inner wisdom.

192 pages

About the author: Barbara Ganim, M.A.E., C.H.H.C. retired in 2011 from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island to pursue her own personal creative expression in mystical landscape painting and writing ghost mystery books for children. While at Salve Regina University, she was an Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Program Coordinator, and co-founder of the Expressive Arts Institute and the Certificate of Graduate Studies in the Expressive and Creative Arts. These programs and the courses she taught were the foundation of a specialized expressive arts approach that became the basis of the books she has written in the expressive and creative arts. Barbara is the co-author with Susan Fox of Visual Journaling: Going Deeper than Words, Quest Books, Wheaton, IL. She is also the author of Drawing from the Heart: A Seven Week Program to Heal Emotional Pain and Loss, Quest Books, Wheaton, IL, Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind and Spirit, Random House/Three Rivers Press, The Healing Power of Art, a 9-hour Expressive Arts audio digital program, SoundsTrue Productions, Boulder, CO, 2001/revised 2010.