INTEGRATED JOURNALING
… is a journaling practice crafted uniquely around YOU, your goals and aspirations.
The Integrated approach begins with structuring your journal and utilising the time you have available, in a sustainable and appealing way.
Once you begin to discover the benefits of your bespoke journaling practice, the Integrated approach looks at how to bring those benefits off the page and into your everyday life.
MOLECULAR
MINDSET
…is a way of managing all the elements that make you feel whole.
Starting with a list of your essential ingredients, the Molecular process helps you to recognise your various goals, tasks, intentions, habits and activities and places them into more manageable groups.
Once you have completed this process you can start to find ways to apply your newfound Molecular Mindset, empowering your everyday life through journaling.
LIMINAL
REFLECTION
…is a practice that creates a deeper understanding of what is going on beneath the surface in everyday life.
Starting with the details you know, the Liminal process helps you to identify what is most important to you and explore each observation in more detail, relying on your own innate intelligence and resourcefulness.
As you develop this in your journaling practice you will start to find deeper insights and gain growing confidence in your decision making and intentions.
Eliot Lloyd Short developed the initial ideas of Integrated Journaling while struggling to manage multiple creative projects and hold down a day job as a specialty coffee professional. During this time he was also struggling with an ongoing spinal injury and he used the approach to rethink the way he was approaching both day to day tasks and long term life goals. He started out with Molecular Mindset, then added Liminal Reflection and began integrating these two approaches, along with other journaling tools, into a daily and weekly practice. Over time the approach developed into a wellbeing and organisational strategy which he began sharing with other people from a variety of different backgrounds.
Eliot is a musician, composer and workshop facilitator with a background in performing and writing music for ensembles, stage and screen. He has acted and played music on the West End in the National Theatre show ‘War Horse’ (2011-2013) and scored a documentary film about the First World War “Meeting in No Man’s Land” screened at the BFI, London in 2016. He studied Community Music at Goldsmiths College, London and has been a facilitator for the London Philharmonic outreach program, as well as assisting Sound Minds in song writing workshops with 8-12 year olds at CAHMS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) St Georges Hospital, London. He is currently completing a Masters in Music for Film and TV, as well as helping launch the creative wellness initiative Kiinship Space in North Shields, UK.
“I think this workshop was incredible and I’m so grateful for being part of it and being able to learn the techniques.”
“I loved looking for "things that are important to me" and finding out so many things that are important to me, but I actually never realised they were.”
- Ella
“A concept I'd never heard of before, but very useful to order my thoughts. Also, Eliot explained this and the previous workshop together and it worked well.”
“Interesting ideas and helped me make connections between my dreams and life.”
- Emma
“ I found the liminal reflection we did really useful, extrapolating feelings from notes into more hefty thoughts and it’s something I’ve used in my writing ever since.”
“I had a bullet journal practice, but it made me a bit more intentional with going back over the week and looking at how I was feeling.”
- Tara
“As someone who only had a rough idea of how I wanted to use my journal, I felt I gained something from each workshop.”
“The resources were helpful and informative, I'm quite a visual person so having examples of layouts helps!”
- Josh