Full confession, concept journal is a phrase I made up. It’s an art form birthed from a deeper dive into journaling, and it’s not a book of collages or a zine or a diary but something else. It’s not trying to convey something to an exterior user; it’s made to express, in visuals and writing, something for the purpose of expressing it in order to promote wellbeing, cope, and engender peace in the heart of the person making it. It’s made to quieten a nervous system, in therapy speak.
Journaling is, or perhaps I should say in my opinion should be, a process-oriented art form.
If a journal is neat… it should be because that engenders pleasure or solace or peace in the artist.
Here is a sneak peek into my new concept journal, Landscapes of Trying, created during IRL Journaling Workshop Series 1: Writing the Unwriteable, at The Create Place, St Margaret’s House, Bethnal Green, summer 2025.
Congrats on extending/having a second series of workshops! Hope they go as well as the first.
the way u write is so beautiful dafuq😭😭ur writing style kind of reminds me of mine a little too!! i wld love to be mutuals if you down eeeee i posted today too we cld support each other?! xx