- Total price
€40.00
2 sessions
- Schedule
Every other Wednesday
Nov 11 – Nov 25
- Time
19:00–20:30
- Class size
Min 6 · Max 20
Food is rarely just about eating – it’s about love, identity, belonging, celebration, homesickness, and the moments that become unforgettable.
We’ll write about traditions around family meals, holiday feasts, comfort foods, disastrous recipes, childhood treats, and the people who cooked them and gathered around the table.
Expect a joyful, sensory memoir session that might leave you laughing, nostalgic, and perhaps a little hungry.
Workshop 2 (Nov. 25): Comfort & Discomfort: What We’re Willing to Try (Oliver)
Using food as our way in, we’ll look at our relationship with the unfamiliar: the new dish we wouldn’t touch, the flavour we refused, the meal that pushed us out of our comfort zone. What made us willing, or unwilling, to try something new, and how that same pattern shows up everywhere else we’re asked to grow. Expect a reflective session on discomfort as the doorway, not the obstacle.
About Marusha Mozolevskaya
When she’s not busy putting the Barcelona Journaling Festival together, Marusha is writing, reading, noticing things, and probably filling another notebook.
A former travel columnist for Harper’s Bazaar and Grazia, she is the author of Not Just A Mom, a self-help/autofiction book, and Naked Words, a guided journaling journey for anyone who wants to write, notice, explore and understand themselves a little better. She is also the founder of Girls Who Write, a platform supporting women of all ages and life paths in their writing adventures.
Marusha believes writing becomes truly transformative when we stop trying to sound clever, impressive, or “good” – and stop secretly wondering whether what we’re writing could one day become a book, a post, or something else useful. When we let go of all that, something much more interesting can happen: we can start telling the unedited truth. That's what her Naked Words, the original Barcelona journaling circle, gathering at the Backstory bookshop for the past two years, is all about.
About Oliver Mann
Oliver created Shadow Journaling after feeling frustrated that so much journaling advice never gave the depth he needed. Through studying Jung, Robert Johnson, Debbie Ford, Nathaniel Branden, Kay Adams, and Gloria Kempton, Oliver found a thread that helped him, and later his students, go gently into the shadow, with a light, with support, and the confidence that we will grow.
Shadow Journaling is about listening to the unheard you.
www.shadowjournaling.com
Certified Instructor: Kay Adams' Journal to the Self Program
Council Member: International Association for Journal Writing
Cofounder of the Barcelona Journaling Festival