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SoulCollage� Community Update
September  2013

Nurses Use SoulCollage� in Healing

by

Tina Jollyschmidt & Maggie Clark 

 

 

 

 

Imagine a group of nurses sitting in a circle sharing the surprising, magical, powerful collages they have just created--collages that speak to who they are in ways that are new and profound. Imagine the new way these nurses now have of knowing each other, of seeing how precious and wonderful each member of the team is.

 

We recently led a simple SoulCollage� experience with our fellow nurses in a series of nursing retreats. It was so cool to see everyone actively engaged in the process. Everyone loved doing the collage process and the sharing was very meaningful. This is a group of nurses who over the last five years have gone from a small unit with a handful of nurses and patients to a huge number of nurses and patients. Finding ways to connect with each other and with our patients is an ongoing process. SoulCollage� is certainly one powerful way to do this.

 

Imagine a patient who comes to receive a treatment that may last for hours. Imagine that patient, after they are assessed for all their physical needs,  handed a bag containing the simple tools needed to make a SoulCollage� card or two. A short instruction is given and during the day the nurse checks in with the patient helping them to imagine themselves as the image on the card and speak as if they were that image. In
SoulCollage� this is called making an I Am One Who...
statement and it offers fun, surprise, and healing
self-discovery.

 

Think what that would mean to the patient: How special it might be to be listened to in a new way. (This is a project we are currently working on bringing to our unit.) How wonderful for the nurse and patient to make that amazing, healing heart connection once again. There are so many ways to bring SoulCollage� into your nursing practice. It can be a wonderful process to offer patients at ongoing support groups, at the bedside/chair side, etc.

 

We believe that nurse self-care is an important part of providing our patients with the best care. In this time of increasing technological and fast- paced practice we need to recharge ourselves so that we can be truly present for our patients. SoulCollage� is so good at helping nurses to see all the parts of their wonderful selves. As we mentioned in the beginning of this piece we have seen nurses share parts of who they are in profound and beautiful ways. What could be better for team building than to see who it is you stand next to each day as you work to help your patients find their healing.

 

As nurses we are continually in need of reminders to care for ourselves so that we can give our patients our minds, skills and our hearts. Connections are all about care and SoulCollage� allows us to connect with who we are in such a fun and profound way. We look forward to finding new and imaginative ways to bring SoulCollage� into our practice.

 
The Fool - A Council Card

I Am One Who knows the universe will hold you when you jump into the unknown.

I Am One Who reminds you to not be afraid to take the leap of faith and do something
new and fun. I Am One Who understands that change is transformative and delightful.
I Am One Who
encourages you to take time to play for the sheer joy of playing, not
needing an end result. The wisdom is knowing that everything you do has a special
purpose that will become apparent at the right time. Just JUMP!! 
 
Tina Jollyschmidt 

 

Tina Jollyschmidt RN and Maggie Clark RN are SoulCollage� Facilitators who are also certified in Integrative Imagery, Reiki, Healing Touch and several Massage techniques including Swedish, Esalan and Shiatsu. They are

Maggie Clark

employed at a Hospital-based outpatient cancer center where they work to provide their patients with Holistic care. Maggie and  Tina believe that Nurse self-care is integral to excellent Patient care and work to provide their peers with sel -care tools.

   

 

 

  

Check out this short video introduction to the process of using  

SoulCollage� for self-discovery. 

Ann's SoulCollage(R) Video
Created by SoulCollage� Facilitator

 

 

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New Online Classes

Four Archetypes Three Chakras & SoulCollage�

Dates
: Sundays, September 8, September 22 & October 6, October 20, 2013
Time: 1-2:30 PST - 6 CEUs
Cost:  $132 plus $10 CEUs (PayPal buttons below)
Description: Befriend and empower four primary archetypes of the lower three chakras: victim, prostitute, sabeteur, and wounded or adapted child.  Carolyn Myss awakened us to these archetypes and SoulCollage� gives them a stage. Join Barb Horn in a safe, fun, and intimate journey using your SoulCollage� deck. Experience how these archetypes are at work in your life and how to depersonalize them and unleash their power to utilize in manifesting the life you desire.  Tools and tips to bring this workshop to your SoulCollage�
groups are included.

 

 

Dates:  Sundays, September 15, October 13, and November 3, 2013
Time: 1-2:30 pm PST - 4.5 CEUs
Cost: $99 Plus $10 CEUs  

Jill.Badonsky

The author of The Muse is In leads sharing and exercises with SoulCollage� to help  catalyze your creative writing. Experience how SoulCollage� cards can inspire the deep creative experiences possible in reflective writing, creative thinking tools, and expression of one's authentic voices. 

 

Learn more and Register. 

Dates: Saturdays, November 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2013
Time: 1-2:30pm PST - 6 CEUs
Cost: $132 Plus $10 CEUs

Updated 2013

Do you ever feel the need to strengthen your boundaries, perfect your filters and regain balance more quickly when you brush against somebody's negativity, feel under attack or feel impotent in the face of violence and disaster in the news or at home? This course invites your Neters, your allies and guides present in your SoulCollage� cards, to reveal more efficient ways to manage your permeability to the forces of the World Shadow, in its small and larger expressions, rooted in fear, greed, and ignorance. New cards will be created and old ones consulted to weave the needed web of support, clarity and strength. In deep dialog with your body wisdom and your imagination you will learn useful tools to invoke energetic protection and solidify your resilience. 
Learn about Mariabruna and Register here.
 
Exploring Time with Images:  Gathering Our Traces through the Lifetimes of Our Soul

Dates: Sundays, November 10, 17 and December 1, 2013
Time:  1-2:30pm PST
Cost: $99
Whatever you think about past lives, there is no doubt that most of us
identify with particular eras and characters of the past more than others, just as one image jumps out from the pages of a magazine at one person more than it does for another. We will talk about Time and use guided meditations and SoulCollage� images to discover and explore our unique stories from the past that might benefit our Neters and our present lives. Esperide Ananas, a gifted teacher from the spiritual community of Damanhur in Italy and a SoulCollage� Facilitator, will be your guide for this journey through time. Every person, not just fiction writers, can have the joy of "making up a world," playing in it, and learning more about oneself that way. 
Learn more about Esperide and Register Here.

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2013 Facilitator Training

Become a Facilitator!
If you have been working with SoulCollage� for a while, are enthusiastic about your own SoulCollage� practice, and want to share SoulCollage� with others, join us for a SoulCollage� Facilitator Training. With over 1,789 Facilitators in 32 countries, including 47 US states, and 7 Canadian provinces, it's an exciting time to join this diverse, creative community.

INTERNATIONAL

Italy (near Reggio Emilia) with Mariabruna Sirabella, MFT - In Italiano
September 13-15, 2013
 www.soulcollage.com/mariabruna-sirabella-ms-lmft

Exmorra The Netherlands with Lucy Schaaphok.
October 5-7, 2013 
www.soulcollage.com/lucy-schaaphok

2014

South Africa (Pringle Bay, Western Cape) with Catherine Anderson
March 7-9, 2014
 www.soulcollage.com/catherine-anderson
UNITED STATES

Maryland (Marriottsville) with Roberta Rook  
Sept. 13-15, 2013 - Bon Secours Retreat Center
Massachusetts (Westfield) with Anne Marie Bennett  September 19-22, 2013 - Genesis Retreat Center (10 minutes from Springfield)
Arizona (Prescott) with Kat Kirby, ATR
September 20-22, 2013 - 2KatStudios  
Minnesota (Frontenac) with Audrey Chowdhury, ATR-BC
(1 hour south of Twin Cities)
October 11-13, 2013  California (Los Gatos) Mariabruna Sirabella with Seena Frost.  The Presentation Center-Los Gatos, CA.
November 1-3, 2013.
North Carolina (Charlotte) with Catherine Anderson
November 15-17, 2013 - Catherine Anderson
2014

Arizona (Prescott) with Kat Kirby, ATR
March 20-23, 2014 - 2KatStudios  
www.soulcollage.com/kat-kirby

California (Santa Cruz) Mariabruna Sirabella (with Seena Frost)
March 27-30, 2014  Registration now open!
Illinois - La Grange Park (Chicago area)
with Audrey Chowdhury
May 2-4, 2014

 www.soulcollage.com/audrey-chowdhury-ms-atr-bc    

 

California (Santa Cruz)- Mariabruna Sirabella (with Seena Frost)

June 5-8, 2014

Click here to learn more. 

 

California (Santa Cruz) Mariabruna Sirabella (with Seena Frost)
September 11-14, 2014
Arizona (Prescott) with Kat Kirby, ATR
September 19-21, 2014 - 2KatStudios  
  www.soulcollage.com/kat-kirby
SC Evolving Book
SoulCollage� Evolving-
Seena Frost

SoulCollage� is an accessible collage process with practical applications. It's easy to learn and inexpensive. Best of all, it inspires individual creativity and encourages good communication in families and groups.

 

Founder Seena B. Frost's first book ignited a worldwide interest in SoulCollage�, which invites anyone to be creative and undertake an adventure of self-discovery. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, images you can find anywhere and glue! After you have made some cards, you can consult them, ask important life questions and let your cards speak your own intuitive widom back to you.

 

SoulCollage� has evolved into an international community of Facilitators and SoulCollagers enjoying and sharing this simple, yet profound, process. SoulCollage� Evolving  gives the basic instructions for how to make and do readings with SoulCollage� cards, and describes how individuals and groups are using this process with different age groups and in many socioeconomic, cultural, and religious contexts to discover their wisdom and change their world.

Price: $26.95

      


The $16.95 retail price of this Card-Making Supply Pack saves you 8% off the cost of these items, if the items were bought separately.

 

Each Pack comes in its own packaging and contains:

o   Card Pack - 12 / 8" x 5" quality blank mat board cards

o   24-pack of Plastic Card Sleeves 

o   Pioneer Glue Stick 

o   FREE SoulCollage� logo pen. (See item: 10-pack SoulCollage� Pens also)

o   FREE SoulCollage� mini-frame (not pictured). (Note: this frame has smaller outside dimensions than the SoulCollage� Card Frame.)

Price: $16.95