Journalling (with Ignatian flavour)

Led by Alison Madocks

Lots of people keep a diary, not as a planning calendar, but as a reflective summary of the day. Some of the most famous diaries aren’t particularly reflective, but are published because they’re gossipy. Keeping a private diary or journal, however, has been seen by many as a good way of reflecting on their experience.

As a spiritual discipline, keeping a diary is usually called journalling, and involved recording both some experiences and reflective thoughts about the experience. It can be daily, or more occasional: different people find do it differently, and at different stages of their life.

In this session, Alison Maddocks will reflect on the practice of journalling, drawing on her own experience of doing it. She is particularly influenced by Ignatian spirituality, and will be drawing on those traditions in exploring it with us.

Alison is a former marketing executive who has served both as a parish priest in Derby diocese and stewardship officer in Worcester. She is currently our Dean of Smaller Churches, and has a passion for sailing. She journals herself as a way of reflecting on her own journey of faith, and will be talking out of her experience of doing so.

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