Your Brain on Ink: A Workbook on Neuroplasticity and the Journal Ladder
A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator’s guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.
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Your Brain on Ink: A Workbook on Neuroplasticity and the Journal Ladder
A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator’s guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.
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Your Brain on Ink: A Workbook on Neuroplasticity and the Journal Ladder
A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator’s guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.
Deborah Ross, LPC, CJT is a psychotherapist, certified journal therapist, teacher, and writer. She is the creator of the original curriculum, Your Brain on Ink. Deborah is fascinated by the intersection of neuroscience, mindfulness-based practices and writing. She studied with Dr. Dan Siegel, successfully completing his three-year program in Interpersonal Neurobiology through the Mindsight Institute. She also successfully completed the three-year Certified Journal Therapist program at the online Therapeutic Writing Institute founded by her co-author, Kathleen Adams.
Kathleen Adams, LPC, PTR, is a licensed professional counselor and registered poetry/journal therapist who has pioneered the field of expressive writing in counseling, therapy, education, and community service since 1985. She is the founding director of the Center for Journal Therapy, Inc. in Denver, Colorado and its professional training division, the online Therapeutic Writing Institute. In 2013 she created the Journalverse, an online membership community for journal writers and facilitators worldwide.
Foreword Preface Dear Reader: An Introduction to the Workbook
Section 1: A User-Friendly Guide to Your Brain and Your Journal
1. Prelude 2. Welcome to Neuroplasticity 3. The Art and Science of Expressive Writing 4. The Journal Ladder 5. Brain Maps 6. The Reflection Write
Section 2: The Write Way to Positive Brain Change
7. The Brain as Velcro® and Teflon® 8. Your Limbic System 9. The Brain Takes the Shape the Mind Rests Upon 10. Neural Darwinism 11. Neurons that Fire Together, Wire Together 12. For Your Olfactory Delight 13. The Masking of a Negative is Not a Positive 14. From Positive State to Positive Trait 15. Building Neural Circuitry 16. Series of Three 17. And Now for Something Completely Different 18. Anticipate a Blossoming of Creative Delight 19. Short Bursts of Radiance 20. A Radical Departure 21. Overwriting the Negative
Section 3: Our Last Collective Firings
22. Reprise: Your Brain Takes the Shape Your Mind Rests Upon 23. Bridging Into the Future
References Literature Review: Evidence-Based Research on Expressive Writing Acknowledgments About the Authors