What is it?
This experience is for those who want to journal but “don’t know how to start”. It’s for those with a busy mind and life who need some space to recover. It’s for those who aren’t doing something nurturing for themselves yet.
Set in Kamay Botany Bay National Park in Sydney this 90 minute experience will leave you feeling calmer, clearer and more creative.
We will take a short walk along the coast to a peaceful writing spot on Cape Banks. Once there we settle in with a short breathing and grounding exercise. I'll speak briefly about my experience with journaling and how I’ve used it to reflect and rest in a mindful activity. Then we will run through two simple methods of journaling together before you find your own spot to write and soak up the soothing sounds of waves and wind.
Tom's two loves
I have been writing poetry and journaling since I was a teenager. I don’t know why I began, but once I did the pages of handwriting became a repository for words unspoken, feelings unexpressed and thoughts unwanted. Over the years the pages of my many notebook journals have seen my greatest ideas and my darkest depressions. They’ve been the listening and non-judgmental friend we all hope for, but don’t always receive. They've helped me reflect and then make changes to my life.
For many years I've been affectionately called Nature Boy as I love the natural world from ocean to sky and flora to fauna. I've found peace and tranquility for my mind and soul in the countryside around my childhood home and along the ocean front of my current one.
And so this is what has inspired me to bring my two favourite activities together in one experience; the combination of writing and time in nature. My hope is that you all leave calmer, refreshed and with a tool that can literally change your life.