Groundwork: archival mapmaking for self-transformation™
Whether you are seeking to develop or transform your career, your creative practice, or your overall lifestyle, through my nine-step Archival Mapmaking™ process you can move closer towards the life that you were called to live.
archival mapmaking, huh…what does that mean? The short of it is that you’re probably already doing this even though you didn’t recognize that’s how it could be framed! I can relate, because I did not initially utilize this language either. It found me along my journey to reaffirm who I have always been since childhood. It’s aka the strategic planning that’s guided me as I’ve defied all of the statistics that were predetermined for my existence as the daughter of a Black teenage mother living in a trying and confining environment. It has helped me transform every aspect of my life such as overcoming the grief of losing loved ones, establishing boundaries with family, and navigating bureaucracy at work. I am now living an enriched and charmed life on my own terms. My archival mapmaking has led me to becoming a certified archivist within a community archive, a corporate archive, a large public library, and a prestigious museum. As an interdisciplinary artist, it’s expanded my performance work to reach across the nation and around the world. Now, I want to facilitate YOUR utilization of archival mapmaking to prepare you for a successful self-transformative exploration!
The way ahead is not necessarily uncharted; it’s paved from our past experiences, feelings, desires, and from the problems we have already solved. The remembering helps you sift through the trauma, self-doubt, and overthinking. You remember to return to your self, to recall who you truly are, and to redefine your way forward. Not reforming the symptoms, fully releasing who/what no longer serves you in order to transmute the root of the problems. Remembering helps you to recalibrate when necessary, and to access renewed routes. Your life is iterative; you’ve already been in motion, just keep going!
Moving through this process will take you from Point A to Point B.
POINT A:
- Discouraging yourself from achieving future goals because you’re overwhelmed by the road ahead.
- Starting over again and again instead of repurposing your personal archive.
POINT B:
- Encouraging yourself to make moves by remembering every mile you’ve already traveled.
- A preserved record of your life that you can access for ongoing inspiration to fuel you forward.
The nine-step Archival Mapmaking™ process that informs this developing course:
Here’s what I’m specifically offering YOU…
- This process it NOT just more ideas to acquire in an already overstimulated world with an overload of information that removes us further away from ourselves. This archival mapmaking process is a practice that must be applied and embodied, explored and experienced; rest and relax into what you already know and done did. Check yo receipts, cuz you’ve been ON!
- From September 2022 through September 2023, I built the curriculum for this course in real time within an intimate community of fellow Black women who have served as invaluable founding members during the betaExploration_v1!
Groundwork: archival mapmaking for self-transformation™ is still becoming an on-demand and completely self-guided course. I aim to further distill down the content of the existing curriculum into the essential elements so that we can all remain enroute along our journeys with ease.
I am currently seeking more participants on a rolling basis for betaExploration_v2!
Your virtual exploration would take place within a one-month timeframe that we’ll determine together. You would be provided: access to all of the existing recordings and resources; as well as 1 virtual one-on-one session (90 minutes) with me that would be bookend by opening and closing correspondence via email.
Folks who want to join would pay $555 to participate.
Please feel free to email me any questions, clarifications, or requests for additional information!
The primary benefit of participating in betaExploration_v2:
- As this course is still being developed, you will have access to real-time virtual guidance through the curriculum from its creator aka me, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph! I have over a decade of experience working as a professional archivist/artist. This opportunity to have one live virtual session with me will NOT be available, at this price point, once the on-demand course is fully released.