The Journal 

Project —

A moving testament to collaboration.

30 JOURNALS 30 HUMANS 225 ENTRIES 1 DESTINATION

Progress Report

  • Katy Ryland

    Bedford, UK

  • Kevin Hainline

    Tucson, AZ (yes, he’s an astronomer)

  • Hanae Bezad

    Vancouver, Canada (she’s an author)

  • Jill

    Lincoln, NE (Pickle ball enthusiast)

  • Joel ORourke

    London, UK (Canal boat dweller)

  • Phil Mardlin

    Bedford, UK (image via unsplash)

  • Teresa Stastny

    Chicago, IL (podcast host)

  • Siobhan

    Omaha, NE

  • Marie

    Cádiz, Spain

  • Jillian Hess

    New York (studier of historic notebooks)

  • Dan

    Carolina Beach (retired and living his best life)

  • Anique Coffee

    London, UK (leadership & community expert)

  • Brooke Lehman

    London, UK

  • Shannon Mullen O’Keefe

    Omaha, NE

  • Viola Ketelsen

    Kiel, Germany

  • Charles Koster

    Omaha, NE (creator of comical sports greeting cards)

  • Michael Eckelkamp

    Lincoln, NE (loving people through Pickle ball)

  • Phil Becquet

    Joigny, France - From a curious eco-community in a former military building

  • Sandy

    Lincoln, NE (Pickleball lover and a new GMA)

  • Heather Rocheford

    Fullerton, CA

  • Madeline

    Placentia, CA

  • Katharina

    Sønderborg, Denmark (image via unsplash)

  • Isabelle Fleming

    Kansas City, MO (rendezvoused to her hometown)

  • Hayley Steinbauer

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia (image via unsplash)

  • Rosalina

    Bedford , UK

  • Begoña

    Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

  • Maryse

    Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

  • Daniel

    Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (image via unsplash)

  • Hèlia Rivera

    Barcelona, Spain (graphic designer & tattoo artist)

  • Maria Brady

    Sydney, Australia (currently in grad school, missing Omaha)

  • Alicia López

    Queens, New York (image via unsplash)

  • Barb Anderson

    Omaha, NE (Gecko lover and re-wilder)

  • Brendan Kelly

    Omaha, NE

  • Jill Anderson

    Omaha, NE

  • Justyna

    Łódź, Poland

  • Craig Lee

    Omaha, NE (Painter Craig here, honored to collaborate with you journal writers)

  • Rico

    Pamplona, Spain

  • Kelli

    Pacific Grove, CA (embracing delight today)

  • Hannah Uy

    San Jose, CA (written where she discovered self worth). Image via Unsplash.

  • Simon Gonzalez Bromberg

    Stockholm, Sweden (upcycling healthcare waste into construction material)

  • Tim

    Omaha, NE (volunteering with old folks and tech challenges)

Welcome!

You’re probably here because someone handed you a journal and asked if you’d like to take part. We’re so glad you’re here. You are invited to take part in a global project about collaboration and connection. The medium for the project is a journal and a pen. 

We're sending out 15 journals to 15 people around the world. Each person will each create a journal entry by responding to questions we’ve curated within the journal's pages. After each person puts their thoughts on paper, their task is to pass the journal on to someone else, who will contribute and then pass it to someone else.

The hitch? Each person must take it closer to its final destination. The last person will take it to its final location in Berlin. The end goal is for each journal to arrive in Berlin by September 25, 2025.

Is it possible for people across multiple cities and countries to come together around one common goal? Let’s find out!

The Final Destination

Berlin

When a Journal makes it to Berlin, drop it off at C-Space located at Langhansstraße 86, 13086 Berlin, Germany.

You can leave it with someone in-person, Mon through Fri, 9am-7pm. Or drop it in the mailbox outside.

The final gathering – Sept 25 – Berlin

What Does It Take to Trust (Again)?

On the smallest acts of reconnection.

We’ll be gathering in C-space for a final IRL get-together to celebrate the next phase of the project. We’ll collect all the journals that arrived and come together to explore the questions within their pages. In collaboration with Monika Jiang and her work around Oneliness, we’ll experience together, how we can move through the world with more depth, connection, and trust. This event is open to anyone, regardless of if you held a journal or not. We’ll have two pop-up locations of the journal in Omaha and Berlin for you to write an entry if you did not get a journal passed to you.