​Tend to Your Garden: A 5-Week [virtual] Journey of Growth & Self-Discovery Through Journaling

​Join us for a deep dive into cultivating self-care, clarity, and community as we close out the year and step into the new one ahead with intention.

​Winter invites us inward to reflect, restore, and root ourselves before we bloom again. This is your invitation to nurture yourself through a mindful journaling + community experience designed to help you grow, ground, and begin anew.

​This experience will start at the beginning of the last month of 2025 and wrap up in the first week of 2026!

​❄️ Tend to Your Garden 2.0 is a VIRTUAL 5-week co-hort based immersive experience where we see how journaling moves beyond pen and paper and rather it becomes an act of self-discovery, and thoughtful transformation. ❄️

​If you’ve been craving a deeper connection to your feelings, your dreams, your words, your vision, and a like-minded community, this is for you.

​Unlike a one-time workshop, this journey offers a structured path to creating your inner garden; in community, with care.

​🌲 The Weekly Journey

​Each week, we’ll explore a new stage of tending to your garden: from clearing the soil to celebrating your harvest. Together, we’ll nurture each part of the process and witness what’s ready to come alive.

​🍂 Week 1: Clearing the Weeds – Letting go of what no longer serves us. We’ll release old patterns and make space for renewal.

​🌰 Week 2: Planting the Seeds – Setting intentions for the year ahead. We’ll focus on clarity, direction, and what we want to grow in the new season.

​💧 Week 3: Watering the Soil/Soul – Growth requires care and consistency. We’ll explore nourishing habits, self-care, and patience as we sustain our practices and lean into our helping our seeds planted grow. This week, we’ll create actionable plans to nourish the seeds we’ve planted. Through self-care, intentional routines, and cultivating patience, we will deepen our commitment to our practices, ensuring we’re tending to both our inner and outer gardens.

​🌲 Week 4: Gathering the Harvest – Reflecting on how far we’ve come. Create space to explore what it will feel like once we have the things we’ve been working intentionally towards This week is about gratitude and acknowledging what’s blossomed within and around us. We will wind down in this time with reflection as we wrap up 2025.

​🎁 Week 5: The Holiday Harvest Celebration – Our final session doubles as a cozy beginning-of-year gathering. It is like a holiday party that you will actually want to attend! We’ll exchange reflections and gifts, celebrate the season, and share what we’ve grown — both in our journals and in our hearts. Think of it as our virtual holiday party meets community gift exchange — an evening of warmth, connection, and joyful entrance into 2026.

​🌿 What to Expect

​🍂 5 Weeks of Guided Transformation

​Each week includes an interactive journaling session, community sharing, and reflection. The fifth and final week celebrates our “Holiday Harvest Celebration,” where everyone is invited to share what they’ve cultivated.

​🕯 LIVE Weekly Gatherings on Zoom

​Every Monday evening from 7:00–8:30pm EST, beginning December 1, 2025, we’ll come together for live sessions filled with reflection, creativity, and connection.

​There will be no session the week of December 29, and our final session will be on Monday, January 5, 2026 — the first Monday of the new year.

​Sessions will NOT be recorded intentionally to lean into creating a sacred and safe space. Although the experience is designed to have each member of the cohort join all 5 sessions, if you are unable to make a session for whatever reason, you will still have access to that weeks prompts, explorations from the week and relevant materials.

​🌸 A Thriving, Supportive Community – Throughout this journey, you’ll be part of The Community Garden: our dedicated virtual space/chat room where connection, encouragement, and growth take root. This is more than just a chat; it’s a place to share reflections, celebrate wins (big and small), and support one another along the way.

​Just like a real garden, this space will offer:

​🌿 A supportive environment to grow alongside others on a similar path

​🌻 A virtual connection hub where friendships, insights, and inspiration can blossom

​🌱 A space to ask questions, share resources, exchange thoughts, and deepen your experience beyond our weekly sessions.

​Your garden doesn’t grow in isolation, and neither do you. This is a space to nurture and be nurtured, to plant seeds of connection, and to watch them flourish.

​📝 Gentle Weekly Invitations – Thoughtful, meaningful prompts designed to inspire reflection and growth. These weekly explorations are an opportunity to deepen your practice, but feel free to interpret them in your own way. Assignments are invitations - not required but welcomed! Show up however you need to show up.

​🌙 This Journey Is for You If:

​🕯 You crave a creative, grounding space to reflect and gain clarity about your next chapter.

​🌱 You’re ready to tend to your inner world with care and intention.

​🌾 You love journaling (or are curious about it) and want structure, guidance, and inspiration.

​🌲 You’re seeking community with others committed to self-discovery and reflection.

​✨ You’re open to growth, gratitude, and renewal as we close out 2025 and begin 2026.

​🌿 Enrollment Details

​Investment: $250 for the full 5-week experience

​💸 Payment Flexibility: You can pay half at sign-up ($125) and the remaining half by the first day of the cohort (December 1, 2025).

​🌼 Spots are limited: This is a small, intimate cohort and will fill quickly.

​🌼 Enrollment Opens: October 28th 2025

​🌼 Doors Close: November 29, 2025 (or once full)

​🌼 First Session: Monday, December 1, 2025

​🌼 Session Dates🌼

​Mondays, 7:00–8:30pm EST

​December 1, 8, 15, 22, and final session January 5, 2026 (skip week of December 29 to observe holiday and round out year)

​Please check your schedule before enrolling — due to limited capacity, there are no refunds.

​If you need financial support and feel this experience deeply calls to you, please reach out.

​Questions? Email Emily at [email protected] or DM her on IG @journalingclasses

​About Your Host:

​Emily Chertow (she/her) is the founder of @journalingclasses, a Brooklyn-based creative brand building community through journaling, art, and mindful connection. She’s guided over 20,000 people in putting pen to paper and is passionate about holding space that feels inclusive, warm, and welcoming to all.