SoulCollage® Community Update
January 2016
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Collage Is a Metaphor for Life
by Karen Mann
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When you create a SoulCollage® card, in one sense you are simply cutting and pasting, combining a number of images together to make a new image that didn't previously exist. However, I have learned that as simple as collaging is, often the actual process of making SoulCollage® cards can be quite revealing, showing me something about what's happening in my life at the moment.
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| | Care for my Inner Child by Karen Mann |
I Am One Who is delicate and blossoming, wide-eyed with wonder. I Am caring for myself in the way I always wanted to be cared for.
Here are some patterns I have noticed as I make SoulCollage® cards:
- Sometimes the process of collage feels easy; everything flows and the card seems to make itself... just like those times in my life when things fall into place and life feels effortless.
- Sometimes my SoulCollage® card is mysterious and at other times it makes perfect sense immediately... just like many situations in my life.
- Sometimes my SoulCollage® card is complex, made up of many intricate parts... just like when I'm juggling many things and focusing on many details.
- Sometimes when I make what I initially viewed as a "mistake" (e.g., I ripped an image or stuck it on upside down), it can result in something wonderful. Just like those times in life when things don't work out the way I planned, but in the end they end up better than I could have imagined. The blurry white scratches on my Butterfly: Heart Chakra Companion card really annoyed me at first. Yet when I spoke from them using I Am One Who...I I saw that they conveyed the central, profound message of this card:
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| | Butterfly: Heart Chakra Companion by Karen Mann |
I Am One Who is perfect just the way I am. I am lovable even with my imperfections. I give and receive love the best way I know how.
- Sometimes a SoulCollage® card takes hours, days, or weeks to make... some things just can't be rushed!
- Sometime I have too many images to fit on one SoulCollage® card... just like when I have too many tasks on my to-do list.
- Sometimes I delight in cutting closely around the edge of complicated images - it almost feels meditative - and other times I can't be bothered. This can definitely be quite revealing about how I'm currently feeling about many things-my job, relationships, housework. I made my Care for My Inner Child card after a hypnotherapy session, enjoying the quiet contemplation of intricate cutting and composing.
- Sometimes I feel "stuck" and nothing seems to come out right... in my collage and in my life.
- Most of the time, making SoulCollage® cards feels like the most fun and wondrous activity on the planet... reminding me what a joyful life I have!
Even if you're just starting to make SoulCollage® cards, it can be eye-opening to notice your process and your thought patterns.
Have you noticed any correlation between your process of making SoulCollage® cards and what is going on in your life?
Karen Mann is an Australian SoulCollage® Facilitator & Trainer with a B.Ed in Visual Arts. She has been an artist, art teacher, Lifestyle Coach, and FasterEFT practitioner. Since 2004, she has given SoulCollage® workshops, Trainings, retreats, online courses, and conference presentations in Australia and internationally.
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This kit will help get you started making your cards. The kit includes:
- SoulCollage® Evolving by Seena B. Frost
- Card Pack - 12 quality mat board blank cards - 5" x 8"
- SoulCollage® Card Sleeves - 24 pack
- Pioneer Glue Stickz
- A SoulCollage® Card Frame
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 This is a powerful program designed to facilitate your personal practice of SoulCollage®
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A well-designed, perfectly-sized tote to safely carry what you really need. It beautifully identifies you as a proud SoulCollager as well. Perfect for use as a bag for work, babies, pets, or you.
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 From the SCU Archives
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Photo by Diane Karen Born
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THE NEDERLANDS (Groesbeek) SWITZERLAND Bern (Atelier Indigo) - In German - EMAIL TO REGISTERUNITED KINGDOM Stroud (Hawkwood College) GERMANY (Horn-Bad Meinberg) Hanover - In German - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER BRAZIL Recife - In Portuguese and English - EMAIL to register ITALY Orvieto ( Terni) - In Italian - Contatta *No degrees or certificates are required to attend the SoulCollage® Training. The purpose of the Training is to prepare people to share SoulCollage® with others. The pre-requisites for the SoulCollage® Facilitator Training are your own active practice of SoulCollage® and your enthusiasm for sharing it with others, as well as reading SoulCollage® Evolving by Seena B. Frost and listening to her CDs: Introduction to SoulCollage® and Facilitating SoulCollage® in Groups.
Before attending a Training, we want you also to have a SoulCollage® workshop experience with a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator or listen to a recorded class Fundamentals of SoulCollage®, make some cards, do the exercise, "I Am One Who...", with your cards and do some SoulCollage® Readings, letting your cards answer at least one of your questions. |
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