This is the third annual year-end Closing Out: Appreciating A Year Lived workshop!
The holidays tend to be a current that sweeps us up and hurries us along. Use this workshop to reclaim your time, pause, and reflect on 2025.
In this three-hour, live online workshop, you will take a compassionate view of your year, appreciate and remember what you experienced, and cultivate introspection that will carry through the coming year.
You’ll wrap-up with a calendar of the year and a roadmap of your year’s seasonal rituals that reflects who you were by season, not simply all your various “activities” but who you were.
"The Closing Out workshop was so clarifying!
Suddenly I could see what was happening in my life way more clearly. I felt it viscerally. I just hadn't looked at my life from this vantage point.
The experience inspired me to plan my next year very intentionally—now I know what I want to see next year when I look back."
—Katie, NYC
Some of the Questions We’ll Explore
When did you feel most spirited, engaged, or even enthralled? How about seen?
When were you able to learn from a trying situation and be useful to another human being?
When did connection occur?
What were the instances of surprise and delight?
The Vibe & What's Included
This is a small and supportive group willing to regard 2025 with curiosity and kindness.
We will write, share, and listen—gaining insights from our writing as well as one another.
We will review the photos we’ve taken through the year.
You’ll create a calendar of the year as a record of your whereabouts, activity, passions, and people you were with.
You’ll create a season-oriented roadmap that reflects your yearly rituals.
Supplies *Updated*
Note that we’ll take a stretch break but will otherwise be seated as we move through various activities.
Have a ‘souvenir’ from your year. We’ll use these as part of our introductions. Choose something that evokes the story of the year you just lived.
Have your phone containing photos from the year. (All your photos.)
PRINT the attachments that I’ll send you (two pages): A page of portholes and a postcard.
Have 2 sheets of 11 x 14” paper. These can be white or off-white.
Optional: 2 additional sheets of black 11 x 14” paper
Note: If you bring black paper, be sure to have white ink pens.Inky black pens that draw thin lines—tips that range from 0.3 to 0.8mm tip is perfect. (But regular ol’ ballpoints will work just fine!)
A journal.
A notebook for writing and taking notes.
Water.
About Your Facilitator
Amy Eden's passion for introspection and journal writing spans 35 years. She’s the author of The Kind Self-Healing Book and works of fiction and creative nonfiction published in Fatal Flaw, Gigantic Sequins, Ravishly, and others. She studied creative writing and earned an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has been designing and guiding workshops since 2014.
Questions? Feel free to email Amy!
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