Travel Touchstones: Transformative Travel through Creative Journal Writing

• Have you considered spinning memories into stories, essays, or memoirs?
• Have you captured a trip in journal entries & been disappointed by the results?
• Have you traveled as tourist, pilgrim, adventurer, learner, intentional sojourner?
• Have you yearned for adventures, but not known how to make them happen?
• This workshop will illustrate how you let travel be our teacher!

   — No travel or writing experience required. — 

Workshop Takeaways

1. Share adventures or misadventures with others in a fun atmosphere.
2. Reflect on how to travel more purposefully, independently, and intentionally.
3. Practice journal exercises to develop insight & clarity.
4. Consider types of travel to match writing supplies to take with you.
5. Develop writing skills through observation, writing with six senses; and mixing fiction with fact.
6. Select journal writing methods for your travel circumstances and/or your writing style.
7. Stimulate imagination with tips, ideas, and suggestions shared.
8. Make new friends and get to know old ones in new ways.

What previous participants have said

• Nicely presented
• Good interaction
• Useful handouts
• Thank you, Rhonda. I’m a fan!!
• Many useable/practical ideas and suggestions
• Great class—plenty of time for questions & sharing
• I was surprised to learn so much in your workshop
• It never occurred to me I might write & sell articles

REGISTRATION FEE for 3-hour workshop

• $65/person
• $45 for Schreiner University faculty and staff
• $35 for Schreiner students
• Special Flat-fee group rate – to be negotiated
• You may host a “house party” workshop – ask me about it!

To register or to ask further questions, please send me an email at rhonda@rhondawiley-jones.com.

Workshop Facilitator 

Rhonda Wiley-Jones, M.Ed., author of a coming-of-age travel memoir, At Home in the World: Travel Stories of Growing Up and Growing Away, is a world traveler, journal writer, blogger, and fiction writer. She has conducted this workshop with audiences, such as 2015, 2016, and 2017 Schreiner University’s Global Programs; the 2016 annual Story Circle Network national conference; the 2013 and 2014 Iowa State University Alumni Association Osher Learning Institute; and the 2013 Schreiner University’s Innovative Learning Program for community members.