Keeping a Journal

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Dear teachers, school staff, childminders, how are you doing?

As part of our #thankyouteachers campaign, each Friday until half-term, we are providing you free, one of the tools from our Schools' Mark kit to help you to deal with the challenges you face while continuing to be useful & kind and inspiring our children.

Here is a quick tool to help you keep some balance in your life and to give you a bit of quality time.

The art of Journalling is centuries old. Our version is based on Julia Cameron’s work in The Artist’s Way at Work (2000). It has been used widely in the field of Positive Psychology and there is considerable evidence for its benefits.

It is also one of the most researched tools in the field of Positive Psychology. Evidence shows these can be some of the benefits of Journalling:

  • gives you the time to develop self-awareness, self-reflection and learning

  • improves well-being

  • develops your intelligences, including emotional intelligence (see other tools) will help bring your emotions to awareness and reduce their potency

  • stimulates creativity

  • develops mindfulness

  • helps you realise current unconscious processes

  • clarifies your thoughts and feelings

  • reduces stress

  • helps with problem-solving

  • develops more aware relationships

  • reduces symptoms of depression before an important event (like an exam, presentation or important meeting)

  • improves your working memory (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005)

Ready to give it a go?

Download the working PDF by completing the form below.

More help?

You might also like to read our help with Behaviour Change tool which will help you understand how to make the changes you want to see for yourself, others and the world.