Do you have any visual journaling ideas?

What are some fun journaling activities for adults?

• I work with adults with mental illnesses and teach a journaling class. I am out of ideas for my next class. I want to do something other than just give them a writing prompt. Something like journaling with pictures or fill in the blank journaling. Activities. Any suggestions?

• Answer:

  I'm not sure about mental illness activities specifically, but a potentially decent activity is the list of 100 questions, or 100 facts about yourself or that you've learned from life. Also, mandalas (which perhaps sounds a bit hippie dippie but can be fun) is something you can do with that involves pictures. You draw a circle, then choose images that represent yourself or something like that and draw them inside of it. Like, what kind of plant you are, stone, animal, and then your supposed to choose a shadow image (representing something you don't like about yourself) and a light image (something you do like) and so on. Cheesy maybe? but fun with the right attitude.