A Year in Review: Discovering What Shaped You and What Carried You

A Virtual Experiential Workshop with April Bordeau

Every year leaves its mark. Some moments become milestones. Others reveal patterns that quietly shape who we are becoming.

What if, instead of rushing into another year with resolutions and expectations, you gave yourself permission to look back, notice what mattered, and discover what your experiences have been teaching you?

Join therapist April Bordeau for Rocks & Rivers, a four-hour interactive and experiential workshop designed to help you reflect on 2026 with curiosity, compassion, and intention.

Through creative exercises, guided reflection, visualization, and meaningful conversation, you’ll explore the rocks and rivers of your year.

The Rocks: The significant moments, milestones, challenges, losses, decisions, and celebrations that marked your year. Some were beautiful. Others were difficult. All became part of your story.

The Rivers: The underlying themes, recurring patterns, relationships, emotions, and experiences that flowed through your year. Some carried you forward. Others challenged you to change course. Together, they reveal what has been shaping your life beneath the surface.

This isn’t about labeling your year as good or bad. It’s about recognizing what happened, understanding how it impacted you, and discovering what you want to carry forward.

What You’ll Experience

🪨 Discover Your Rocks | The Moments That Mattered

Take a creative, visual journey through 2026, identifying the defining experiences that shaped your year. Celebrate accomplishments, acknowledge losses, recognize unexpected turning points, and honor the moments that deserve to be remembered.

🌊 Follow Your Rivers | The Themes Beneath the Surface

Look beyond individual events to discover the patterns and themes woven throughout your year. What kept showing up? Where did you experience growth, resistance, connection, or change? What might these recurring themes be revealing about your needs, values, relationships, and direction?

✨ Explore Through Experiential Reflection

Move beyond traditional journaling through hands-on activities, guided imagination, and creative reflection. Engage different ways of processing your experiences to uncover insights that may have been difficult to recognize in the busyness of everyday life.

🤝 Make Space for Meaningful Connection

Experience the value of reflecting alongside others. Through individual exercises and optional group sharing, you’ll have opportunities to gain fresh perspectives, feel encouraged, and recognize the shared humanity in our different stories.

🌱 Look Ahead | What Will You Carry Into 2027?

Use what you’ve discovered to move into the new year with greater awareness and intention. Identify what deserves your attention, what may be time to release, and what you want to nurture as your next chapter unfolds.

Why Rocks & Rivers?

Because reflection helps us recognize what living through the year doesn’t always allow us to see. We can become so focused on what’s next that we rarely stop to consider what’s happened, how we’ve changed, or what we’ve learned.

The rocks help us remember. The rivers help us understand. Together, they help us move forward with intention.

You’ll leave with a visual representation of your year, greater clarity about its defining themes, and meaningful insights to guide you into 2027.

This Workshop Is for You If…

• You want to enter 2027 with more intention and less pressure.
• You’ve experienced a year of change, challenge, growth, or transition.
• You’re curious about the patterns that continue to emerge in your life.
• You value meaningful reflection but struggle to make time for it.
• You want to celebrate how far you’ve come while making space for what’s next.

You don’t need to be artistic, have all the answers, or even know how to describe your year. Just come willing to be curious about your own story.

What to Have Ready

We’ll use simple, everyday materials to make this experience creative and meaningful.

• A manila folder or two pieces of blank paper
• Ruler or straightedge
• Scissors and a Sharpie (optional)
• Colored markers, pencils, crayons, or highlighters
• Your phone, 2026 calendar, planner, or journals
• A printable tape measure (link provided before the workshop)
• A few meaningful objects from your surroundings (instructions to follow)
• Lunch, drinks, and anything that brings you comfort as we work

Your Year Deserves More Than a Passing Glance.

Before you turn the page on 2026, take time to honor the story you’ve lived.

Notice the rocks that marked your journey. Discover the rivers that ran through it. And step into 2027 with a deeper understanding of where you’ve been, who you’re becoming, and what matters most.

Space is limited. Reserve your place for Rocks & Rivers today.

Your story is worth reflecting on. Your next chapter is worth approaching with intention.