Description
This is a BUNDLE. The mini-course itself may be purchased separately for $33 here on my website or by donation (you choose) on Eventbrite.
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I’m loving your workshops—glorious, generative & generous atmosphere! Thank you for all you do. —Elizabeth
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In this journaling mini-course, we focus on Home.
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Home is what holds us. It’s the first place we learn the world and a place we imagine and long for. It is a web of belonging: the body we live inside, the people who made us and the ones we gather, the fires we tend, and the place we find ourselves now, after all our leaving and arriving.
We’ll move through four rooms
- Body as Dwelling
- Kin, Human & Wild
- Hearth & Fire
- Home Now
We’ll use writing, page design, simple art, and colors to explore our changing relationship to home.
This mini-course is for journalers, memoir writers, writers, nature journalers, and anyone who wants permission to find an hour to work in your own journal in community with like-minded folks.
I’d love to work with you.
SCHOOL WILL BE
- 4 Sundays in a row during November 2026
- each Sunday afternoon
- one hour long
- 5-6 pm Eastern US/Canada Time, which is 4-5 Central/ 3-4 Mtn/ 2-3 Pacific
- starting Nov. 8, 2026
- ending Nov. 29, 2026
Sessions will take place on Nov. 8 | Nov. 15 | Nov. 22 | Nov. 29.
This is not a single event. This is a workshop with 4 sessions. You only need to sign up once. The Zoom link you will receive is the same for all sessions.
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WHAT YOU GET
- a deeper understanding of your sense of home
- a deeper relationship with your self
- four hours of flow
- at least 12 pieces of writing that you can use for social media posts or as part of essays or a book you are writing
- the bones of memoir
- a chance to explore art without fear of judgement
- the space to be in community with like-minded folks
- another way to process and celebrate the holidays
- my belief in you and your happiness
- all the benefits of keeping a journal (see below)
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TUITION IS $77
If you register on Eventbrite, the course is by donation, which means you get to determine the class’s value to you. Pay what you wish. The amount you pay remains private. I don’t even see it.
This BUNDLE is $77 and includes the following:
- Journaling Home mini-series
- A year’s subscription to Trackless Wild
- My book CRAFT & CURRENT
- The workbook for CRAFT & CURRENT
- A Blackwing pencil
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WHY DO THIS WITH ME
- Because our most intimate relationship may be with our journal.
- Because no one else has to see those pages.
- Because there we honor our own self, our own life.
- Because we deserve an hour to ourselves.
- Because it’s nice to get lost in the flow.
- Because creativity feeds creativity, and creativity gives us more options when a decision arises.
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Thank you for another warm, creative, peaceful session of Journaling Place. It has been so good to sit in circle in such a loving, positive way. It has been a promised yellow dot of joy at the end of each week. Thank you for the love of nature that you share with us and instill in us. You are a gift to many.–Jeannie
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I’M HONORED TO GUIDE
I am Janisse Ray, nature writer and teacher with a passion for understanding, celebrating, and documenting our lives. I am so happy to invite you into this little course I’ve created for people who’ve seen some things.
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REMEMBER
When you sign up for Journaling Home, you’re signing up for all 4 sessions. Nov. 8, 2026 is the first session and Nov. 29 is the last. The Zoom link you receive will be the same for all 4 sessions.
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WE STUDY
body and self as dwelling ~ kin, human and wild ~ a simple banner ~ cool page borders ~ 5-step breathing exercise ~ memory house ~ how to increase your creativity ~ longing and belonging ~ phenology wheel ~ signs of autumn ~ enso ~ home ground ~ 3 stages of observation ~ feasting ~ poem templates ~ shading ~ your natural history ~ adding color ~ wisdom quadrants ~ hearth ~ anyone can draw ~ what home means to you ~ a room of your own ~ homes you left ~ where in your body you feel at home ~ architecture of home ~ what is changing
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A BIT MORE ABOUT ME
Many years ago, I wrote the memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. My latest book is Journey in Place: A Field Guide to Belonging. And I write the Substack Trackless Wild. I live in the southern United States, in coastal-plains Georgia. I am a second-wave mom, meaning my husband and I are raising a small daughter and son.
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Really enjoyed Sunday’s session. So fun. And therapeutic. I am truly grateful for this community you have created.–M.K.
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IN THE COURSE WE EXPLORE
- what home mean to us
- our various hearths
- writing, including craft
- what home now looks like
- the nature of home
- who we gather with
- feasting
- simple art exercises
- borders, corners, spirals, dividers, banners & other wonderful page designs
- mapping
- natural history
- perspective
- healing
- ancestral healing
- the breath
- your thoughts and feelings about it all
The course is a chance to acknowledge and process the enjoyment, contentment, and inspiration that you get from home–in all its definitions–plus the complicated feelings you have about it. Autumn is the perfect time to do this work.
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THE VIBE
The vibe will be all of us sitting around my kitchen table–loving, inspiring, and hopeful.
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ON OR OFF
You will be welcome to turn off your video. Level of participation is your decision, and participation is always optional.
You are not obligated to share your thoughts or your writing in any way.
Show up on Sunday afternoons this fall at 5 pm Eastern Time for an hour directed toward curiosity and wonder. You can come for one session or for all 4 sessions.
Sessions are recorded and posted, in case you need to miss one.
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YOU WILL NEED
- your journal (unlined paper is best)
- sharpened pencils
- your pens
- crayons and/or colored pencils or pens are wonderful but optional
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Thank you for being you, for your warm and welcoming spirit, for the books and writing that you put out into the world, for welcoming a place at the table, and for the incredible generosity and recognition of others contributions that are so beautifully evident in everything you do. There’s room for all, and you so clearly embrace that. Thank you. Rambling but heart-felt–Susanne
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RECORDINGS
I make recordings available afterward, through a Google Drive, in case you need to miss a session or want to watch a session again.
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Janisse, I am so grateful you provide this class. It is soul healing for me.I am also gaining and learning so much about myself from your Journey In Place book.Thank you. –Joy
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THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF YOU…
- brim with thoughts and feelings about your life
- know that journaling about them would be helpful and healthful
- think a lot about home
- are willing to give form to your creativity
- are caught in patterns of disconnection
- would benefit from being in the same space with others like you
- would like to have in hand at least 12 pieces of writing at the end of 4 weeks.
- want to put more color, art, and design in your life
- want to learn more about the natural world around you
- want to be introduced to more ideas
- could be inspired by prompts and handouts
- could be inspired by me
Thanks for your wonderful class! I’m looking forward to the rest of the sessions.–Nicole
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BENEFITS OF JOURNALING
- Journaling can assist you with processing natural history and other information.
- Journaling can help you develop a greater appreciation of the environment.
- Journaling helps you become intimate with your place.
- Journaling asks you to observe and record, increasing your powers of observation.
- Journaling leads to more creativity, which brings more ideas.
- Journaling is a system of record-keeping.
- Journaling is a way to reflect.
- Journaling hones your curiosity and sense of wonder.
- Journaling deepens your sense of connection.
- Journaling is great for meditation and healing.
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COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
We honor the inherent dignity and beauty of all persons regardless of identity, nationality, ethnicity, belief, age, or any other divides. We agree to create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for all. We especially welcome members of historically underserved or excluded communities, understanding that in order to end the fragmentation of the earth’s systems, we need every voice of every person to be as elevated and functional and unencumbered by oppressions as humanly possible. This is a safe space where all are welcome.
