We are daily bombarded with both large and small decisions. And teenagers, just at the time when they are exploring the world and getting to know themselves, are exhausted with decision fatigue. Many feel like they can’t make informed decisions at all, choosing to let others make decisions for them rather than harnessing their own power.

This journaling workshop is designed for teens to begin the habit of using their written words for knowledge and self-reflection. If your teen already has a practice of journaling it will help them broaden their understanding and deepen their methods. If they’re just getting started with journaling, this workshop will instill easy and actionable methods that they can apply immediately to their lives.

Journaling is an art form that we can use and develop throughout our lives to understand our wants, motivations, and behaviors. This workshop is designed to assist teens in discovering the super powers that already exist inside them.

Exploring Your Wants

A teen journaling workshop with
Kimberly Carter

Sunday, June 9th
1:00 - 3:00 PM

Most of us have trouble knowing what we want. Our life often depends on the weight of responsibilities that overshadow our true connection with what we need to shape our world in a way that is positive, beneficial, and empowering.

What motivates us?

Through somatic exercises and the act of journaling, Kim Carter will guide teens through this 2-hour workshop held in the safe container of Bramblewood Stables in Taylors, SC as the resident horse herd keeps watch.

Your teen will leave with practical, simple tools they to use right away to inspire their life, a journal to begin crafting their dreams into reality, and a deeper sense of who they are and how taking time to tap into their motivations can provide balance in their life.

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• All of Kim’s workshops are introvert friendly. Your teen won’t be pressured to share, but can safely interact (if they wish) in a way that feels authentic.

• This workshop will help your teen understand the reason why we craft defenses to keep ourselves safe, and how these habits can understandably keep us from knowing our true wants.

• This event is for any teen who is curious about themselves, interested in beginning a habit of journaling, and/or any young adult who is ready to replace old ways of thinking with new habits designed to help them tap into their inspirations.

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Who is Kimberly Carter?

Over two decades ago, Kim Carter quit all her real jobs to figure out why horses made her feel better. Bramblewood Stables in upstate South Carolina is the farm she founded and it is her home base and community where she and all those around her daily tackle that question and many more through coaching, re-wilding, and classical horsemanship.

She’s okay with never discovering the answer to why horses make us feel better, but she is obsessed with daily living the query. Kim is a lifelong seeker who embodies the (good?) Scorpio qualities of dogged curiosity and uncanny control. Writing is her medium for exploration and the home she’s always came to rest within since she was very young.

Kim attended the Fine Arts Center with a focus in creative writing and also attended the SC Governor’s School for the Arts. She is a Young Arts award winner in poetry and received the Archibald Rutledge Prize as well as being selected by Nikki Giovanni for a poetry prize through the Writers Workshop of Asheville. Her novella The Mansion House was awarded a runner up honorific in the inaugural Benjamin Wofford Prize for fiction.

Her work has appeared in The Emerys Journal, Southeast Equine, Creative Loafing, The Evening Reader, The Rectangle, Upstate Arts, Decor Magazine, Riding Instructor Magazine, Horse Network, and many Medium publications.

For several years she covered cuisine and arts in the southeastern US for regional magazines. She attended Wofford College where she studied art history with an emphasis on Byzantine icons and English with a creative writing focus.

Kim is a Level 2 EquineFlow coaching practitioner, recipient of the 5-star EquineFlow Excellence Award, a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI), a somatic practitioner based in the Compassion Process, and an ARIA Level III hunt seat instructor. You can find all her latest writings and more about her coaching practice here. She specializes in igniting transformation in people who are ready to step into their power.

Keep up with all of Kim’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry and join the conversation at Stable Roots.