Whether you’ve been journaling for years or are just beginning, this monthly one-hour virtual journaling circle offers space to explore your inner world through writing. Together, we’ll reflect on our lives, thoughts, and feelings, capturing memories and insights as we go. With gentle prompts and supportive community, you’ll discover how journaling can deepen self-awareness, spark creativity, and help you make meaning of your experiences.
Date & Time: Second Monday of each month 7-8pm ET
Location: Online, Zoom link shared in confirmation email
Tickets: FREE (donations appreciated!)
Proceeds directly benefit the American Diary Project nonprofit
About the facilitator: Merle Saferstein kept diaries as a young child. In 1994, she began journaling and has accumulated approximately 380 journals. In 2002, she culled through her then 359 journals over the course of fourteen years, selecting excerpts from about seventy topics. She created Living and Leaving My Legacy, Vols. I and II, from these excerpts, each containing eleven subjects. She is the author of a coffee table book, Wisdom of the Century, which features photographs and interviews with 90 individuals who are 90 years old. Merle also authored Room 732, an award-winning short story collection that pays homage to the historic Hollywood
Beach Hotel.
Merle facilitates a writing for wellness group for women impacted by cancer and leads a journaling circle for Gilda’s Club. Since April 2020, at the start of COVID, Merle has led a weekly journaling circle. Merle is a council member of the International Association for Journal Writing (IAJW). As a pioneer in the field of legacy journaling, her chapter on the subject appears in The Great Book of Journaling: How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning, and Purpose.
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