Come join us in a playful and sometimes awkward-feeling attempt at writing with your ‘other hand’. Feel like you are in kindergarten again! Be surprised by your own child-like wisdom! Using the non-dominant writing technique, we have the opportunity to access our center of creativity, the right brain, as well as different parts of ourselves. In the ‘Creative Journal’ dialogue method, you ask a question with the dominant hand and answer it with the non-dominant hand. This dialogue process was developed by Dr. Lucia Capacchione and introduced in her book The Creative Journal. This is a technique which stimulates the whole-brain, causing left and right hemispheres to work together synergistically. The process begins with questions written with the dominant hand, activating the linear brain, and answered with the non-dominant hand to tap into information hidden in the more creative, emotional hemisphere. It accesses the spirituality and creativity of the non-linear side of the brain, unlocking new ways of thinking often hidden in more cognitive approaches to goal setting, brainstorming and problem solving. The process is playful – the results profound and far-reaching. This journaling technique helps you to articulate those invisible things called feelings and interpret body signals that you may not understand. It also helps you get ‘unstuck’ around a particular issue. This method is a powerful tool in accessing different parts of the self, and expressing true feelings. As long as these parts of ourselves remain hidden and in the shadows, we are unconscious of them and their power over us. Once we give them permission to speak, allow them to express themselves and we understand their perspective, we begin to cultivate what Hal and Sidra Stone refer to in their book Embracing Ourselves as the ‘aware ego’. This is the part of our operating ego that has awareness and can make conscious decisions and choices. Then we truly are at choice to make decisions in our lives, not based on the truth of one voice, but with the understanding of our many inner voices. The non-dominant hand acts as a mouthpiece for these otherwise hidden voices. The power of using this dialogue method is that it builds trust in our own Inner Knowing. We are so conditioned to look to an external source for the answers to life’s questions; it is a refreshing and very rewarding change to be looking inward instead.