Spring 2025
Love Well
The Love Well Journey focuses on building self-esteem and confidence through increased self-awareness and empowerment within the Girls Write Now community. Using guided prompts to elicit metacognitive writing, journal entries to encourage self-reflection, and specially tailored courses to promote further learning, this journey will guide you to explore your feelings in a structured and safe way.
Learning Objectives
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Deadline: January 15, 2025
As a mentee or mentor in the Love Well Journey, you’ll have access to a collection of online courses designed to help you learn about the psychological, social, and physical factors that make up your self concept. You’ll be paired with a mentee or mentor for one full cycle, and you’ll meet with them at least twice each month. You’ll attend at least one community engagement experience a month.
- Cycle(s) Spring 2025
- Time 3 hours per month
- Areas of Focus Mental Health & Wellness, Journaling, Creative Nonfiction
- Available Spots Per Cycle 20
Love Well Courses
The courses offered in the Love Well Journey focus on the psychological, social, and physical factors that make up your self concept.
Example Courses:
- Reproductive Health
This course is designed to empower participants with knowledge to make safe and informed decisions regarding sexual health and their bodies. Reproductive Health provides insight into modern policy issues regarding reproductive issues and rights to bodily autonomy. - Self-Concept: Understanding the Dimensions of the Self
From self-esteem and identity to self-efficacy and self-perception, uncover how each dimension contributes to forming our overall self-concept. Gain insights into the psychological and social factors influencing self-concept development, and learn practical strategies for nurturing a positive self-image.
Love Well Mentoring
Mentors and mentees in the Love Well Journey will be paired one full cycle. Each pair will meet for at least 2 hour-long pair session each month.
Love Well Community Experiences
Mentees and mentors in the Love Well Journey must attend at least one Community Experience per month. It is strongly recommended that you attend the following Love Well Journey meetings:
- March 22, 11-12pm ET
- April 22, 4:45-6pm ET
- April 26, 11-12 pm ET
- May 20, 4:45-6pm ET
- May 24, 11-12pm ET
Wellness 360 Adventure
The Love Well Journey is a part of the Wellness 360 Adventure.
Journeys in the Wellness 360 Adventure focus on using writing and creating as a tool to help support your mental heath and general well-being. It is designed for mentees and mentors who want to embrace self-love and healing in their work. Learn more about the other Adventures offered at Girls Write Now below.
Find Your Journey
Find Your Journey
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The Careers for Creatives: Unexpected Opportunities Journey is perfect for mentees and mentors who are looking to turn their passion for storytelling, content creation, or journalism into a career. Through a dynamic online course, mentoring sessions, and live networking events, you will explore various career paths available to writers today, learn practical skills to help you succeed, and discover how to build a sustainable career that aligns with your interests and strengths. Discover career paths in finance, technology, corporate communications, publishing and more!
Read: Memoir (Spring 2025)
Each cycle, we’ll close read a new book and discuss it at monthly fixed meetings. We’ll focus, in particular, on reading as writers and taking note of the ways each author crafts their story. This cycle, we'll be reading How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair.
