Lisa Sonora

The Visual Journal Workshop

The Visual Journal WorkshopEverything you need to get started creating now.“This workshop is a completely magical experience.I was totally astounded by what appeared on the page. Visual journaling is helping me to discover what I am capable of…

Aug 15 26August 15, 2026

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Voice & Vision: A Contemplative Art Workshop in Voice and Visual Journaling in Italy Near Rome — Lisa Sonora

Voice & Vision is a five-day contemplative art workshop in Frascati, Italy, combining visual journaling and embodied voice work at the Museo Tuscolano Scuderie Aldobrandini. Explore sound and image in a small group setting designed for depth, presence, and authentic expression.

Feb 24 26February 24, 2026

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Voice & Vision: A Contemplative Art Workshop in Voice and Visual Journaling in Italy Near Rome — Lisa Sonora

Voice & Vision is a five-day contemplative workshop in Frascati, Italy, combining visual journaling and embodied voice work at the Museo Tuscolano Scuderie Aldobrandini. Explore sound and image in a small group setting designed for depth, presence, and authentic expression.

Feb 21 26February 21, 2026

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Art Guidess Training — Visual Journal Studio

What if your artcould change your life? The Art Guidess Training: Come Home to Yourself Through Art — And Help Others Do the Same every many all rights reserved

Sep 29 25September 29, 2025

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NEW! 2026 Creative + Practice Experience — Lisa Sonora

Creative + Practice is a workshop built around working by hand in an artist’s sketchbook: writing, drawing, painting, collage. Working analog slows the mind and wakes up attention in a way screens don’t. Everything here moves at a human pace and is…

Jan 12 25January 12, 2025

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Holiday 2024 Creative + Practice Experience — Visual Journal Studio

having a creative practice. Creative + Practice is the only program of its kind that guides you, step-by-step, through exactly how to create, maintain and even profit from your creative habits that work for visual thinkers: designers, crafters,…

Oct 29 24October 29, 2024

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If you’re a creative entrepreneur, artist or writer wanting to confidently and consistently create, then you probably already know that having some kind of routine or creative habit could help.

having a creative practice. Creative + Practice is the only program of its kind that guides you, step-by-step, through exactly how to create, maintain and even profit from your creative habits that work for visual thinkers: designers, crafters,…

Apr 22 24April 22, 2024

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What does it mean to Go Analog?

This is just one example of how you can use your creativity to align with your values so that you can live your best life. If you’re interested in this process and want to know more, I’ve got resources for you at the end of this article. But for most…

Mar 30 24March 30, 2024

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You Can Trust Your Longings

What if you had the courage to trust your deepest longings? Where might that exploration take you? If you’re still with me, and haven’t clicked off or run shrieking for the woods by these possibly “too-deep” or “too-intense” questions, then this love…

Mar 30 24March 30, 2024

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Why Keep a Visual Journal?

Why keep a sketchbook or visual journal? There are endless reasons and benefits to doing so. That's why I wanted to make a series of videos that are a show and tell into my own visual journal process. I’ll show you what some of the pages look like,…

Mar 06 24March 06, 2024

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How To Overcome Resistance

How do you feel when you don't know how to do something that you want to do? What thoughts do you have about those feelings? What actions do you take (or not take) as a result? Most of us struggle against uncertainty, which looks like: Talking…

Mar 06 24March 06, 2024

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“I've never been big on journaling, but something told me to join this month long adventure. Everyday I find that I'm so looking forward to the day's prompts. What is happening for me with this process, is that I'm really able to find myself in the…

Feb 17 24February 17, 2024

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Create A Vision Board That Fits In Your Planner

Creating a vision board that fits in your planner or journal is a practical way to stay focused on your goals and dreams while charting your progress along the way against your daily tasks and to-do lists. Having a vision board that fits in your…

Dec 30 23December 30, 2023

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The Creativity Workshop Facilitator Training is for the artist in you who loves to create — and wants a structure, method, process to use your creativity for personal, artistic and spiritual growth.

The Creativity Workshop Facilitator Training is for the artist in you who loves to create — and wants a structure, method, process to use your creativity for personal, artistic and spiritual growth. The step-by-step facilitator training shows you how…

Nov 01 23November 01, 2023

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See How Grace Amiraut is Visual Journaling Her Third Act — Lisa Sonora

See how Grace Amiraut, who in her late 60s is using her visual journaling process to navigate her third act, which includes bringing creativity classes with a contemplative twist to her Novia Scotia community.

Sep 13 23September 13, 2023

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See How Grace Amiraut is Visual Journaling Her Third Act

In this video, I chat with Grace Amiraut, who in her late 60s is using her visual journaling process to navigate her third act, which includes bringing creativity classes with a contemplative twist to her Novia Scotia community as a graduate of the…

Sep 13 23September 13, 2023

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100 Portraits in 100 Days: A Quarantine Diary

100 Portraits in 100 Days: A Quarantine Diary Available now in hardcover or e-book pdf. Full Color. 235 Pages. “You will want to linger over the paintings and stories in this book. It's dense in the way poetry is. The double page spreads, one side…

Sep 13 23September 13, 2023

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Here’s how you can get involved:

This visual journaling book I’m working on seems to have a mind of its own. I’ve been wrestling with it all in Write Club — something I’ve never had the opportunity to do with the support of a group. Short story: The writing has instigated a…

Aug 31 23August 31, 2023

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See Sande Smith’s Visual Journals & How She Uses Them in Work & Life

In this video, I chat with leadership coach Sande Smith, a participant and huge fan of the classes I teach at Visual Journal Studio. She is also certified as a graduate of the Creativity Workshop Facilitator Training I’ve developed. Sande was so…

Aug 31 23August 31, 2023

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In These Times — Does Art Even Matter?

In These Times — Does Art Even Matter? Thursday, August 17, 2023 note: I wrote this as an email to my students on June 3, 2020, in the midst of lockdown durning the global pandemic. I’ve added it to my blog today as a way of comforting a friend…

Aug 17 23August 17, 2023

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