The Week’s Landscape (Journal Prompt)
Sometimes a week can feel like a journey through varied terrains—some smooth, others challenging or uncertain.
Imagining the past seven days as a landscape invites playful reflection on the paths we’ve taken, obstacles faced, and progress made. This helps us see patterns in navigating life, offering clarity as we prepare for the week ahead.
This journal reflection can be helpful for highly sensitive people. Instead of focusing on tasks or outcomes, visualising the week’s landscape encourages accidental creativity in our journal practice. Framing challenges and progress playfully can ease the pressure we put on ourselves to think our way through things.
Fancy it?
Landscape Of The Week
You’ve landed at this place of pause.
Imagine the week as a landscape with geographical elements. What do you see around the path behind you?
What features have you navigated through, past, and around on you journey here over the past seven days?
- Was it a well-worn, familiar path you could follow without much trouble?
- Have you had to create your pathway at times (e.g. through forests, across rivers, around swamps)?
- What sort of terrain have you been travelling on? (e.g. rocky mountain paths, sandy beaches, icy lakes, muddy fields etc.)
Now turn your attention to the week ahead and answer these questions:
- What landscapes do you anticipate in the week ahead?
- What will you take from the past seven days that might help you?
The Journal Circle
The Haven Journal Circle started life after a workshop with Mandy Thompson about starting and maintaining a journal practice. We regularly meet briefly at the end of the week to share how we’re getting on with any practices, habits, and routines we would like to explore through journaling. Because it’s not unusual for time to pass without writing, we spend 5 minutes following a short and straightforward journal prompt, so there is always something to take with us from the week.
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