“Elisabeth’s simple guidance leads you into meditative drawing that provides meaningful images that lead to understanding, especially when augmented by comments from other participants. Highly recommended.” Jane DeMouy
Images go deeper than words.
What if you could express something without having to find the right words?
Visual journaling is a personal exploration through images, color, shapes, and symbols. Instead of illustrating what we already know or think, we allow images to emerge from within.
It’s not about making pretty pictures, keeping a decorative scrapbook, or producing a work of art.
It’s about curiosity, awareness, and discovering something unexpected.
Paint feelings, not thoughts.
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung explored the unconscious through a process he called active imagination. He used painting, drawing, and writing to give form to inner experiences, dreams, and images.
His remarkable Red Book documents years of this exploration.
My approach to visual journaling draws on this tradition, using intuitive painting and guided exercises to explore the personal language of images.
The process is creative and reflective rather than therapeutic. No artistic ability is required, and there are no prescribed interpretations of what appears on the page.
We begin by slowing down and turning our attention inward.
Sometimes a feeling, a memory, a movement, or a color becomes the starting point. We follow what emerges, allowing the image to develop without planning the outcome.
When we’re finished, we take time to look at what we’ve created.
What do we notice? What surprises us? What might the image be telling us?
There are no right or wrong answers. Each person’s images have their own meaning.
An exploration of intuitive painting, personal imagery, and creative discovery through guided exercises.
No previous art experience is necessary.
six sessions – TBD
Supply list provided.
The Open Page is my downloadable handbook, offering guided exercises and creative invitations inspired by my approach to visual journaling.
An opportunity to explore the language of images, one page at a time.
