Come along for prompts and inspiration to feed your creative soul and help you tell your stories.

• Because you deserve space to honor the stories inside of you.

• Because letting your creative self out to play creates joy, beauty, and connection.

• Because sharing your stories in community (and catching the stories of others) helps you know you’re not alone.

• Because you have a choice to get stuck in the old stories or get them out of you so you can feel free.

Tell It is an ecourse that tapped me on the shoulder a few years ago until I said, "Yes! I'm listening!" Then it 2021, it started tapping on me again with new ideas, lots of new prompts, and a new approach. So I completely revised and updated it, gave it a new home in an online classroom, and I’m so excited to share that updated course with you.

Tell It is a “create your own adventure” ecourse.

Here's what I mean: There are so many ways to tell your story, and I’m encouraging you to pick the medium you want to use this month - journaling, writing, photography, poeming, blogging, painting, sewing, cooking - whatever you feel called to play with right now. 

Throughout the course, I provide prompts, encouragement, and inspiration to help you get your stories into the world through your chosen medium. And then we meet in a private Facebook group to share our stories and creations. 

You also have the option to choose the same medium I’m playing with: art journaling. I’ve worked through the prompts and share what new and old stories I’ve unearthed. My Tell It journal is full of stories and ideas I share with you in the course. You can create your own responses inspired by my pages or simply use them for inspiration. If you’ve taken other journaling courses with me (from the Here series, Touchstones, or Tell It: Collage), you might decide to use a journal you’ve already started and fill it with more stories this month. 

Dates: This class in ongoing and you can sign up at any time.

Course material in our private classroom: 

All lessons, stories, inspiration, videos, and so on will be available within our private online classroom. Lessons will include things like:

• Prompts + inspiration to help you tell your stories.

• Self-care + mindfulness practices and ideas so you feel supported as you dive into this creative work.

• A weekly built in “catch up” day so you can make your creative practice manageable during this time of year. (The catch-up lesson will include encouragement and inspiration through links to poems, books, videos, artists, weekly playlists, and so on. And if you really want another prompt, I’m quite sure you’ll find several within that lesson.)

Teaching will be done through a mix of video, audio, and writing. I’ve heard from many of you that you enjoy when I add video to my courses, so I added videos to this updated version of Tell It.  

Connection through community: An optional private Facebook group that gives us a space to connect with like-minded souls on an ongoing basis. We’ll also connect on Instagram via a hashtag, which is a fun and easy way to share and meet others in the course. 

Cost: $55

To register, just click the button above, which will take you the checkout page over on Teachery - the website that hosts my ecourse classrooms. You’ll receive access to the course website and the lessons will be available on the website. 

This course was originally meant to be experienced over a month, so you may notice references to days of the week in the course. Please go through the material at your pace.

Emails will be sent to the email address you enter when you check out. If you’re purchasing a spot for a friend, please include their email in the notes section when you check out (and be sure to tell them).

Here is some more guidance about the creating your own adventure aspect of this course.

Adventure 1: Choose the medium you want to use when you respond to the course prompts. Here are some ideas:

• Write in a journal using the prompt as a jumping off point.

• Play in an art journal and create whatever you’re moved to after you read the day’s prompt. You could use paint, crayons, colored pencils, collage materials, and so on.

• Write a poem (or the beginnings of a poem) each day.

• Gather your favorite scrapbooking supplies and tell your story through new pages each day.

• Get out a big stack of magazines and make a collage inspired by that day’s prompt.

• Go on a daily photo walk (or dip into your photo archives) using the prompt as inspiration.

• Get a big (or not so big) canvas and have fun with it each day as you fill it with stories.

• Make and sew a set of fabric flags that are infused with the stories that come up after you read the prompts.

• Work on that book you keep talking about writing using the prompts as a place to begin.

• Make a series of small pieces of art - maybe even postcards - that represent your stories.

• Take a self-portrait each day that tells the story you’re drawn to share inspired by the day’s prompt.

Adventure 2: Create in an art journal alongside me. With each prompt, I’ll be combining a photo and some writing into a journal page or two. I’ll share techniques and ideas along with photos (and probably a couple of videos) of my journal.

Adventure 3: Combine both of these ideas and create a journal about your experience of working with your chosen medium. Meaning: If you decided to take a self-portrait each day, you might print it out and put it inside a journal. If you’re cooking, you might make a journal filled with the recipes you try along with photos of your concoctions. 

Not sure what adventure to take? The good news is I’ll be beside you the whole way, so we can always figure it out together alongside our fellow adventurers. I’ll be available via email and in the Facebook group throughout the month, so we can brainstorm when you need to.

Supplies needed:

You just need whatever supplies you want to play with and an internet connection. If you aren't sure what supplies to gather, start with a notebook and favorite pen.

Access to the course:

The private classroom will stay open for at least a year (and probably longer as I plan to teach ecourses for many years to come). You will be able to access the classroom at any time to work at your pace.

Are you a Tell It Alum?

This round is the updated course I created in 2021 - the majority of the content will be the same as that 2021 course. (If you took the original course taught more than five years ago, know that this course has been updated in content and in how it’s being presented including videos throughout and lots of new prompts and stories.) I share all of this because my experience is that people enjoy taking courses again to have the connection of taking it with others, to explore the new inspiration I share, and to just feel the gentle reminders to keep coming back to your creative practice. If you have any questions, just let me know.