“Writing changes lives and lives are changed by writing“.
Jackee Holder has kept a journal for over thirty years and filled more than a hundred notebooks. She is a co-founder of The School of Journaling and the author of four books, including 49 Ways to Write Yourself Well and the Writing With Fabulous Trees Writing Map.
A coach, facilitator, and creativity expert, Jackee works with leaders, therapists, and practitioners who want to use reflective writing as a tool for deeper thinking and genuine transformation.
She created the R.E.A.D Framework – a practice-based approach to reflection, exploration, awareness and decision-making now used in coaching and therapeutic settings. Jackee holds a Master’s in Creative Writing & Personal Development from the University of Sussex.
She writes the You, Write Now column for Psychologies magazine (UK), and believes that picking up a pen and writing by hand may be one of the most radical acts available to us right now.
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Trauma to Transformation: Journaling was the prescription my soul needed
In her deeply personal and experiential keynote, followed by the workshop, Jackee traces her journey from trauma to transformation and reveals how reflective writing can become a pathway to healing, growth and change.
Drawing on Pennebaker’s research, Louise DeSalvo’s Writing as a Way of Healing, somatic writing and the work of narrative therapist Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, she explores what happens when we move beyond putting experience on the page to actively making meaning from it.
At the heart of the keynote is the R.E.A.D. Framework — discovered through Jackee’s own journey and brought to life through the powerful Ncazelo’s Tree of Life practice. Alongside the ancestral Baobab tree that Jackee returns to each year in Barbados, the Tree of Life becomes a metaphor for roots, strengths, hopes, community and the storms we have survived.
Through story, music and short reflective practices, participants will experience the journey for themselves: from the spiral, through reflection, towards a deeper sense of possibility.
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