We're excited to be back with more beautifully-designed, sustainably-printed journals...

Something special happens when we're given the platform and tools to remember the compassion, wisdom, and reverence that comes naturally installed in our humanity.

This is the humble mission of the Bloom Journals - to empower a compassionate, wise, and reverent society through the gift of self-reflection. We do this by sharing accessible and beautifully-designed contemplative tools, supporting individuals in restoring meaning and connection. 

Self-reflection has been coined by many saints, sages, shamans, philosophers, high-performing entrepreneurs, and Tim Ferriss (😮) as a practice that is foundational to developing self-awareness, compassion, resilience, and a sense of purpose in their everyday lives. 

Yet, it can feel daunting if you haven't established your own way of reflecting just yet. 

Bloom journals are designed to be accessible, empowering, honouring, and enjoyable to support you in coming home to yourself at the turn of each year (and now month, too!)

Share the gift of reflection and support your own practice by pre-ordering your set of yearly journals, or our new monthly journals.

Bloom's Model

As a not-for-profit, local Melbourne project, James and Al intended for Bloom to become a regenerative engine, fuelling the production of sustainably and locally-printed journals empowering wisdom and compassion in our everyday lives. 

This means that our yearly journals only have a $1 profit-margin which is donated to a benefiting local organisation each year. 

Our new monthly journals (which include a yearly journal) are priced to mean we can donate $2 to a benefiting local organisation, whilst also printing an additional yearly journal which we gift to local community houses. 

In this way, we hope to make our journals as affordable as possible, gift-friendly and be able to support a local organisation we believe in whole-heartedly in the process.

2020 Bloom Journals

We're excited to introduce you to this year's edition of the Bloom Journal, as well as our new monthly journal...

Both journals are printed locally in Melbourne, on 100% recycled paper, and with non-toxic inks. Let's not have our self-reflective practices come at the expense of this one beautiful planet we share. 

Yearly Journals

These are our staple journals designed to make end-of-year self-reflection accessible and enjoyable. 

A beautifully-designed, A6, saddle-stitched, 42-page journal with 1 guided Bloom self-reflection process, fit for one year.

These journals guide you through a simple and positive-psychology-informed Bloom process of Hindsight, Insight & Foresight: looking back, looking in, and looking forward.

What you might experience after completing a Yearly Journal:

- deeper sense of gratitude for people, events and moments from the year that was

- bright sense of achievement for how you met the moments in your year

- insight into meaningful lessons and revelations about yourself, your relationships, purpose, and the world

- clarity on who you'd like to spend more time with and why

- clear intentions and sense of direction for the year to come

Bloom Yearly journals are designed to be gifted, hence only able to be purchased at a very affordable $5ea and in packs of 10 or more. 

$1 from every journal goes to support SEED: Indigenous Youth Climate Network. 

OUR TARGET: We need to reach a minimum of 1,000 yearly journals pre-ordered to go ahead with our print-run. Share the gift of reflection, they make amazing gifts to friends, family, and colleagues!

Monthly Journals (NEW THIS YEAR!)

After the success of our first yearly journals in 2019, and much feedback from our 2019 Bloomers, we've designed a monthly version to support you in your self-reflection practice. 

Designed to be worked through at your rhythm, we've intentionally included 12 'cycles' instead of Gregorian 'months,' in case you wish to work to the rhythm of the moon, or another cycle that feels right for you. 

Catching yourself each month, having a pocket-sized journal as your space for coming home each cycle is a lovely way to re-connect with your guiding intentions, gain clarity for the next cycle and land in a greater sense of gratitude and reverence. 

These are a beautifully-designed, A6, perfect-bound, 140-page journal with 12 mini guided Bloom self-reflection processes, for 12 cycles.

Your sacred space for coming home to yourself, every cycle.

Can be ordered in packs of 1 or 2, each journal comes with a free yearly journal. 

$2 from every journal goes to support SEED: Indigenous Youth Climate Network PLUS each monthly journal also funds the gifting of an additional yearly journal to Melbourne local community houses. 

OUR TARGET: We need to reach a minimum of 200 monthly journals pre-ordered to go ahead with our print-run. These are timeless journals and so can be used year on year. 

Share the gift of reflection, these also make amazing gifts to friends, family, and colleagues. Gift a monthly journal to a friend and they'll get a free yearly journal also!

*if we happen to not meet our minimum print-run (which we have full trust and hope we will!), you will of course simply be refunded your order amount in full. 

SEED: Indigenous Youth Climate Network

Funds raised through our 2020 production run support the work of SEED, building the capacity of our Indigenous youth to be part of driving social and ecological renewal here in Australia. 

Seed is already a powerful voice in the movement for climate justice, and ensuring that those on the frontlines of the climate crisis are at the forefront of change.

Know that by supporting Bloom here you are also supporting the capacity of Australia's Indigenous Youth in taking part in the movement for climate justice.

Learn more about SEED here.

2020 Production Targets and Impact

This year we are aiming to have over 5,000 Bloom yearly journals gifted to community. 

This is through a combination of Bloomers ordering and gifting yearly journals to community, plus the additional journals we produce and gift with the proceeds from sales of monthly journals. 

Doing so will also mean we are able to donate over $5,000 to SEED!

WILL YOU BLOOM WITH US THIS YEAR?

Share the gift of reflection and support your own practice by pre-ordering your set of yearly journals, or our new monthly journals. 

By doing so, you're not only supporting SEED, you're also supporting the sharing of the gift of reflection itself, a powerful and empowering tool to support others and our community restore meaning and connection. 

In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share the exact cost structure of this year's production run. 

Journal costs

Yearly journals cost $4 to print each

Monthly journals cost $14.90 to print each (if we meet our minimum of 200)

Product Packages Cost-Breakdown

Yearly Journals

- $5 each (including $4 production + $1 to SEED)

Monthly Journals

- $25 each (includes $14.90 production + $4 free journal + $2 to SEED + $4 additional gifted yearly)

This is an all-or-nothing campaign, meaning that in the event that we don't reach our target your funds will be returned to you. As mentioned, we do also need to reach a minimum of 200 monthly journals to be able to proceed with printing (we can do it!).