Plain Lab · journal
Session Journal
One page after a session for the thought that arrives on the drive home, ten minutes too late for the room.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
The thing you meant to say in a session often arrives on the drive home, ten minutes too late for the room it was meant for. Nothing written that day catches it, because nothing was written that day.
A reflection page after each session gives that thought somewhere to land before the next week overwrites it. Prompted pages appear less often, for the sessions that shift something bigger than a single line can hold.
It does not summarise the session for you and it asks no clinical question. What ends up on the page is only what you noticed, in whatever order it came back to you.
What is inside
- Reflection
- 36pp
- One page after a session, for what actually stayed with you once you were back in the car.
- Prompts
- 12pp
- A longer prompted page at a few points, for the session that changes how you think about the rest.
- Notes
- 20pp
- Plain lined pages for anything a reflection page runs out of room for.
- Reference
- 12pp
- Conversions worked from definitions, plus emergency numbers checked against two sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Apprentice's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Hajj and Umrah JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Pregnancy JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
Questions
What is on a reflection page?
Whatever you noticed after the session, written in whatever order it comes back to you.
Is this a therapy tool?
No. It asks no clinical question and summarises nothing. It is a place to write down what stayed with you.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 80 pages, 4.58 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start it after whichever session you're coming from.
What are the prompted pages for?
A longer page for the sessions that change how you think about the rest, rather than the ordinary week.
Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
