Exploring Personal Cartography:
A Journey of Self-Discovery
Personal cartography is “pointing the compass inward”
EXTEND YOUR JOURNALING PRACTICE WITH PERSONAL CARTOGRAPHY
Research has proven that there are many benefits to journaling including reducing anxiety, regulating emotions, boosting well-being, increasing self-awareness, managing stress, building better memory, and gaining self-confidence.
Personal and creative cartography can be a valuable addition to your journaling routine.
Have you ever been asked to "tell a story about your life?"
Creating our own personal maps can help us to do this by:
- Allowing us to tell our own stories - an invaluable tool for recording our real and imagined experiences.
- Providing opportunities to explore life's big questions, such as "Where am I?" and "Where do I fit?"
- Helping us pay closer attention to our lives, emotions, knowledge, dreams, and habits.
- Lessening the fear of the unknown by gaining a better understanding of the world around and within us.
- Encouraging us to "unlearn" mapping conventions and rules in favour of tapping into our own instincts, imagination, and experiences.
- Providing ways of researching aspects of ourselves and the life we've experienced
TELL VISUAL STORIES ABOUT YOUR LIFE
THE MAGIC IN BECOMING CARTOGRAPHERS OF OUR OWN LIVES
"The magic is in becoming cartographers of our own lives. Just as cartographers commit to constantly updating maps so that they reflect the very latest changes in the world, so we too can commit to updating our maps as we experience and live the process of our lives. We change. The world changes. In this changing world, we need to arrange and rearrange our maps. Our maps need to be updated as we go along." [Debs Stott, 2018]
I will be offering in-person workshops on personal cartography in 2024
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