TWI Summer Terms 2020

This year, we are offering our summer classes through our sister site, Journalversity. For the most part, this will be seamless for our students. Just click the registration button below each course description and you’ll be taken to a registration/payment page. Class cost is $190.00 for all students, and for your first class, the $15 non-refundable technology fee will be automatically rolled into your payment. For any subsequent class registrations, you’ll receive a coupon code that will allow you to pay course tuition only. At this time, you will need to register for each class separately.

Your payment will now be charged as soon as you register, and you’ll receive an initial email from the site confirming your registration. A few days later, please keep an eye out for an email from Krista that gives more detailed registration email including important dates to put on your calendar.

If you are using a credit, please contact Krista directly at krista@journalversity.com to register.

Classes eligible for CEUs offer 16 hours of continuing education for counselors upon verification of satisfactory course completion and submission of course evaluation. See below for CE details.

MORE ON CEUs: The Center for Journal Therapy is an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) through the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for programs that meet NBCC requirements. Programs for which NBCC-approved clock hours will be awarded are identified with an asterisk (*). These courses are taught by licensed or licensure-prepared mental health professionals. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. Participants are responsible for checking with their state’s licensing board for their discipline to ensure that National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) continuing education is accepted.

Course List

(click a class to learn more):

Summer Term 1

S120Winter: Coaching the Artist Within
S120Merin: My Journal in Action
S120Barnes: Your Daily Poem
S120Carr: Song Lyric Writing
S220Cooper: Accessing the Great Work of Your Life

Summer Term 2

S220Scherlong: Create a Daily Practice for Happiness & Joy
S220Merin: The Princess and Healer Hiding in my Journal
S220Winter: The Muse is In
S220Barnes: Always Bring a Pencil: Reflecting on Your Writing
S220Deshpande: 4 Weeks of Self-Kindness

Ethics Course

Summer 1 – June 18 – July 16

S120Winter – Coaching the Artist Within

Instructor: Cyncie Winter, LPC, CJT

Eric Maisel’s Coaching the Artist Within is an outstanding resource for practicing techniques that can empower your creative life. His unique approach offers a complete program for developing the habits that we can integrate into our everyday lives. How, for instance, do we learn to create in the middle of things? Get a grip on our minds, eliminate dualistic thinking, and find centered presence? Become an anxiety expert? Through the writing process, we will explore Maisel’s twelve inspiring, practical, and enjoyable lessons and exercises to access your own inner coach and to encourage, enrich, sustain, and transform your relationship with the creative process. CEUs available.

Required Text: Coaching the Artist Within: Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America’s Foremost Creativity Coach by Eric Maisel

S120Merin – My Journal in Action

Instructor: Hanna Merin, B.Ed, CJF

In this four-week, fun summer course, we will answer 4 ‘How’ questions, that will deepen understanding and relationship with our personal journal, and give us the opportunity to gain more tools and techniques that will enrich and enlighten our journal journey.
Week 1: How can I turn my journal into my best listener?
Week 2: How can I use my journal to quiet my wondering mind?
Week 3: How can my journal release fear?
Week 4: How can I create play in my journal?
CEUs NOT Available

Required Text: None

S120Barnes – Your Daily Poem

Instructor: Linda Barnes, MS, CJT, CAPF

Let’s use this late summer month to generate 30 short poems of our own. Prompts and examples supplied. No experience required! Yes, you can do it!
CEUs Available.

Required Text: None

S120Carr – SongLyric Writing

Instructor: Michael Carr, LPC, NCC, CJT

Using the practice of “sense-bound writing” and the collection of “song seeds,” participants will discover how to write songs that connect emotionally, structure songs to maintain the interest of the listener, and use rhyming techniques that keep the song humming. Whether you are new to song lyric writing or have been writing your heart out for years, please join this fun, interactive, creative, and expressive journey. Together we can change the world one song at a time! (No text necessary).
CEUs Available.

Required Text: None

S220Cooper – Accessing the Great Work of Your Life

Instructor – Linda Cooper, CJF

Have you ever felt a sense of restlessness, feeling lost, as if you are not living the life you were meant to live? Do you have a feeling of discontent, or an inner prompting that is nudging you towards making a change in your life, but you are not sure what your next step is? In the ancient Yogic tradition, it is believed that there exists an inner possibility within every human soul and that each person has their own unique Dharma (meaning vocation, calling, path, truth). Let’s explore together, through selected readings, writing exercises and conversation, how to access our own deepest truth, to discover our own Dharma which will lead us to the Great Work of our Lives.
CEUs NOT available

Required Text – The Great Work of Your Life – A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope available at Amazon.com

Summer 2 – July 30–August 26

S220Scherlong – Create a Daily Practice for Happiness & Joy

Instructor – Nancy Scherlong, LCSW, PTR, CJT, M/S

Would you like more peace, more relaxation? Is your life sometimes over-busy and it’s hard to fit in routines that nurture you? Grab your journal and join us this summer! Together we will journey through Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh’s spiritual sourcebook, Happiness. Most of our memories of joyfulness involve a sensory awareness and feeling fully present. Through selected readings, poems and journal prompts, we will identify practices that help us “stay” in the moment with our experiences. We will create both individual and community rituals for expansion into vitality that feed our mind, body, soul and relationships.
CEUs Available.

Required Text: Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices by Thich Nhat Hanh

S220Merin – The Princess and Healer Hiding in my Journal

Instructor: Hanna Merin, B.Ed, CJF

Let’s spend some time this summer playing and diving into the wonderland of “there and then” folktales and narratives. We will spend four weeks exploring the king’s court and the healer caves, only to discover that we are the kings….the princesses….the clever maidens….the healers. And best of all, it’s all being written and told in our own journals.
CEUs NOT available.

Required Text: None

S220Winter – The Muse is In

Instructor: Cyncie Winter, LPC, CJT

In this exciting course, we will explore Jill Badonsky’s delightful book, The Muse Is In. Fun, gorgeously illustrated, and packed to the brim with tips and information about how to spice up your creative life, Jill’s voice is unique in the world of books on creativity–wry, whimsical, clever, and grounded in solid directives to keep you going on the proper path. Together, we will investigate her tools and techniques through writing, as we develop individual creative projects.
CEUs available.

Required Text: The Muse is In: An Owners Manual to Your Creativity by Jill Badonsky.

S220Barnes – Always Bring a Pencil: Reflecting on Your Writing

Instructor: Linda Barnes, MS, CJT, CAPF

…with poems by Naomi Shihab Nye. As the season warms and minds drift like clouds above, we will follow our meandering thoughts over a blank page, coaxed by the poet’s words, to discover both ideas that float, and feelings deeper beneath. With pencil, pen and crayon, we will explore why we write, and the universe of writing topics through which we wander daily. Both daydreaming and stargazing are encouraged during this class.
CEUs Available.

Required Text: None

S220Deshpande – 4 Weeks of Self-Kindness

Instructor – Anjana Deshpande, MBA, LCSW, CPT, CJT
We are all born with a core self, but it gets delegated to the back burner as we focus on day to day life. This four-week course teaches how to use self compassion to reconnect with the core self, and live a life that is aligned with the authentic self. We will go through at least 4 writing exercises to help reconnect, forgive and hold ourselves with self-kindness.
CEUs Available

Required Text: None

Ethics Course

We are now providing a 6-hour guided independent study, Ethics course that meets the requirements for the National Federation of Biblio/Poetry Therapy (NFBPT) credentialing as well as our Therapeutic Writing Institute (TWI) credentialing.

Tuition is $50 ($25 for TWI Trainees), which includes an emailed CE Certificate or Certificate of Completion.

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REGISTRATION DETAILS

By registering for a TWI class, you acknowledge that you have reviewed and agree to the Policies and Procedures located in the Student Center.

If you are using a credit, please contact Krista directly at krista@journalversity.com to register.