What to expect from a shōkakkō meaninful experience workshop?

🧠 Science-backed techniques for happiness and emotional resilience
🎨 Creative storytelling & immersive media to make the tools fun and approachable
✍️ Ultra-sensory journaling prompts that help you connect with yourself
🙋🏻‍♀️ Real-life inspiration from people who’ve used these practices to shift how they live
🫶 Supportive group space to reflect, share, and feel seen

Sneak peek into the journaling for joy & mindfulness experience:

💡 The Science of Savouring:
How recalling past joys boosts happiness and helps counter your brain’s natural negativity bias.

🌟 The Power of Positive Anticipation:
Why simply looking forward to something good increases your wellbeing — before it even happens.

🌿 Mindfulness, Inside and Out:
Use your senses to ground yourself in the present moment, and learn to gently watch your thoughts flow — without attachment.

You’ll experience all of this not just in theory, but in practice.
Through immersive soundscapes, atmospheric video, and guided journaling, we’ll make these concepts come alive in your own notebook.

Why journaling?

Through journaling, we transform mindfulness and savouring from abstract concepts into a living, daily practice of care, clarity, and intention.

1. Journaling creates a personal space you can step into anytime, anywhere
A quiet moment that belongs just to you, no matter how busy life feels. It offers a safe pause from daily noise, where you can simply be with your thoughts and feelings, free from judgment.

2. Journaling helps you make the intangible tangible
By putting your thoughts, emotions, and experiences into words, journaling slows you down and helps you see them more clearly. Fleeting feelings become something you can hold, understand, and reflect upon.

3. Journaling acts as a tether to the present moment
It gently grounds your attention in the here and now. Unlike mindfulness practices that might feel elusive or intimidating, journaling offers a simple, approachable way to focus and cultivate presence.

You’ll leave with…

• A meaningful, carefully guided experience of slowing down to savour small moments of joy and cultivate a heightened awareness of your senses and surroundings—supported by curated prompts, soundscapes, and close facilitation throughout the workshop

• Practical journaling techniques, rooted in positive psychology and mindfulness research, to support happiness, reduce stress, and increase daily awareness

• A simple, actionable plan to continue your journaling practice and turn it into a sustainable habit

• A sense of connection with like-minded participants, sharing reflections and inspiration in a warm, supportive community