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SoulCollage� Community Update
February, 2014


Values and Ethics in SoulCollage� 
by Kylea Taylor

Life feels more nurturing when we feel those around us want us to be creative, want us to succeed at giving our own unique gifts, and want to include us. We blossom when we feel encouraged to follow our intuition and work cooperatively.

Most of us are looking for an environment where we are encouraged to do what we value doing and are able do it in a way that also feels harmonious with our values and allows us to care for ourselves and others. It is wonderful when we are able to find other people who want the same and to be able to support them too.

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A SoulCollage� group often provides such an environment:

  •  You are sitting at a table, leafing through magazines, watching for images that ask you to pick them.  
  • Music is playing softly in the background.   
  •  Others in the room are quietly looking, cutting, gluing or sharing a wonderful image   they've found; they, too, are deep in their creative process.  
  • You do a double take as you turn to an image, don't know why it has called to you, but you trust your intuition and tear it out.  
  • When you have collected a few more, you pick up a frame that you can hold over the image to see what part of it you want to use.  
  • You find a background for it and start to cut the image.  
  • The Facilitator passes behind you, catches your eye, and smiles encouragingly.  
  • You start gluing the background, then the main image, onto a 5" x 8" mat board card, maybe adding a few more images.  
  • You feel so satisfied. You are not sure what it all means yet, but it feels like you have expressed something important, and you really like your SoulCollage� card. You can't stop looking at it. 
  • Later, you will do the SoulCollage� "I Am One Who..." exercise with your new card to let it introduce itself. Your experience will be honored, and the group and the Facilitator will also appreciate your card. 
 
As we go home from our first workshop and establish a personal practice of making SoulCollage� people.cards.table cards and using our decks to ask and answer our life's questions, we are more and more able to honor the diversity in ourselves, all our parts for which we have made a card, even the challenging ones, like our Inner Judge or Critic.

When we can honor diversity in ourselves, we already have gained the ability to honor all those parts in others. Again, even the challenging parts. Seena Frost, founder of SoulCollage� and author of SoulCollage� Evolving, models for us how to encourage each other, how to expand our receptivity to abundance and operate cooperatively and non-competitively. As we continue to connect with each other in Trainings and Conferences, and in online groups and classes, we learn to value our own and others' intuition and trust intuition to help guide our lives. With each experience we learn better how to trust others, to trust community.

Creativity was the first universal value of what came to be the SoulCollage� community. Practicing SoulCollage� seems to have uncovered other values we have realized we all share: uniqueness, abundance, mutual encouragement and acceptance of others, non-competitiveness, intuition, and inclusiveness.

When we put our values into practice, our actual actions are usually ethical -- that is they have a moral consistency that takes into account the effect of our actions on others and on the networks of people with whom they are in relationship, too. SoulCollage� Facilitators have been a community for ten years.

SoulCollage� Facilitators are people who love SoulCollage� and appreciate its values. They completed the SoulCollage� Facilitator Training in order to share SoulCollage� with others and join the community of Facilitators. There are now 1896 trained Facilitators in 33 countries. It is great to think of those values spreading around the world while people have fun being creative in community.


Kylea Taylor, M.S., M.F.T. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who has specialized in the recovery from childhood trauma and integration of spiritual emergence and transpersonal phenomena into everyday life.  She is President of SoulCollage Inc., and has been a SoulCollage� Trainer, a certified Holotropic Breathwork™ Practitioner and a Senior Trainer for the Grof Transpersonal Training. She wrote The Ethics of Caring, The Breathwork Experience, Considering Holotropic Breathwork™, edited Exploring Holotropic Breathwork™and is now writing fiction. She served as Chairperson of the Ethics Committee on the Board of Santa Cruz CAMFT (California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists.) She has presented programs in the USA and Europe. 


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Dates: February 8, 15 & 22, 2013
Day/Time: Saturdays, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - PT
Cost: $132 plus $10 for CEUs. Facilitators please register through SoulCollage� Institute.
CEUs: 6 CEUS / 3-Part Course / Designed to fulfill BBS requirement for 6 Law & Ethics CEUs.

 

Kylea Taylor & Selene Kumin Vega

   

Ethics is the fascinating material out of which the best movies and TV series are made. Ethical  dilemmas thread through the kind of stories book clubs love to discuss. We will be using vignettes of such stories so you can take on a common ethical challenge as a group and learn the model of ethics described in Kylea's book, The Ethics of Caring. This model uses the chakra system to help us sort out our tangles of counter-transference and transference with self-compassion and learn to avoid or extricate ourselves from the common ethical dilemmas based on money, sex and power, and also the more subtle and difficult ones involving transformative and transpersonal work with clients. Special attention will be paid to ethics in SoulCollage� Selene.Vega practice. This course meets the requirement for 6  Law & Ethics CEUs in California for MSWs and MFTs. Selene and Kylea have worked together for many years to present this ethical model.

Dates:  March 1, March 8, March 15 and March 29, 2014
Day/Time: Saturdays 1:00-2:30pm PT
Cost: $132 Plus $10 for CEU (PayPal buttons below)  Facilitators please login and register through SoulCollage� Institute     

CEUs: 6 CEUS / 4-Part Course

 

Laura Lyons & Carolyn Jennings 

 

The true value of SoulCollage� Cards lies in integrating them into our lives to guide, heal, vision  and transform ourselves as we move through the changes that life brings.  If you are interested in exploring a deeper level of insight using your cards, Journal to the Self� writing techniques can support your journey.  In the "soup of life" SoulCollage� cards are the ingredients, Journal to the Self� writing techniques are the spoon that blends those ingredients to create a delicious rich YOU!  We will show you how doing  "quick writes" can spark intuitive understanding, and how longer writes can bring you to a deep level of wisdom. 

 

Nine techniques are taught for writing during class and at home between sessions. All four suits are  included in writing and discussion.  This course is for anyone who has made SoulCollage� cards as well as for Facilitators who are looking for ways to broaden their work with the cards.

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Dates: March 5, & March 19, 2014
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30pm PT
Cost: $ 49 (See PayPal buttons below) Plus $10 CEU
CEUs: 4 CEUS / 2-Part Course

 

Kat Kirby M.S., ART-BC

 

Do you wish you could attend a SoulCollage� workshop but have found that there just aren't any nearby you?

 

Are you a "collager"? Do you have a stash of magazines or images but don't know why? Are you looking for a way to combine creativity with your own spirituality and self-understanding?

 

Are you a professional who is interested in art and self-discovery both for yourself and your clients? This is a such a rewarding way to earn 4 CEUs as well.

 

Join us for this 2-session experiential workshop, introducing you to the wonderful process of SoulCollage�. We will play together and discover the gifts that can be found in simple magazine and calendar images, as well as family photographs and original artwork.

 

You will learn how to make collages on matboard cards, which become your own personal decks of cards that you use for guidance and meditation. The deck grows and evolves as you do, and there is no limit to the number of cards you can make.

 

Welcoming all the parts of ourselves is a gift you can give to your SELF. You will be guided gently through the course. You will learn that you are a part of a community of other SoulCollagers. We will share our cards and our questions, our revelations and our discoveries! You will learn about the structure of the SoulCollage� deck as developed by Seena Frost, as well as the Principles of SoulCollage�. Learn More and Register Here.

 

 

The SoulCollage� Facilitator Training is for anyone who wants to facilitate SoulCollage� for self-discovery in groups and with individuals.


Mariabruna Sirabella leads Trainings in California with a scheduled guest appearance by Seena Frost, developer of the SoulCollage� process and author of  SoulCollage� Evolving, coming in on the last day of the Training to answer questions, pose for photos, book signings, and co-lead the final ceremony.  Now open for registration: March 27-30, 2014 in Santa Cruz and May 29-June 1, 2014 in Los Gatos.  Opening soon: September 11-14, 2014 in Santa Cruz.

In addition, there are other SoulCollage� Trainers who work under the auspices of SoulCollage Inc. to train SoulCollage� Facilitators in diverse geographical areas of the USA. They have held Trainings in several other countries, including Italy, Nederlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. Most of these Trainers are willing to travel if a group is interested in a hosting a Training in their local area. Please contact the Trainers individually to make inquiries.
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The SoulCollage� App is available at the Apple App Store. It is for those who have made 5 or more SoulCollage� cards. The more cards you make the more useful it will become.
Type "SoulCollage" in the App Store search window to buy it and download it.

 

  • Keep your SoulCollage� cards with you, store and back up your deck on your iPhone or iPad.
  • Make "notes" about any card using keyboard functions like the microphone.
  • Share your cards when you want to in several different ways.
  • Do readings - Draw 4 cards (drawn randomly and automatically from your deck) for a reading anytime. Turn over each card in turn. Make notes and store the reading. View your Past Readings. The 4 cards you drew in a past reading will be shown at the top. You can click on the Reading Header you chose in order to vew your complete notes.
  • Draw 1 card anytime for a quick "reading."
  • Email your data to yourself for backup.


 

These handmade boxes are made to fit your 5" x 8" SoulCollage� cards and can be collaged or decorated beautifully. They are lined with midnight blue flocking to cradle your cards' edges. They will hold up to 75 cards, depending on the collaged thickness of the cards and whether or not you use the

plastic sleeves. The box is designed so that cards can be stored either on edge, so you can can flip through them, or lying flat. These boxes are handcrafted in the USA.

We have filled them with some card-making tools. The bundle is priced for shipping as one item to save you money on shipping individual items. The boxes are not sold separately.

 

 o    2 Cardpacks 

 o    1 Glue Stick
 o    1 24/pk plastic card sleeves
 o    1 Precision tool kit