The Beauty of Belonging
October 23-26, 2025
Genesis Spiritual Life Center
Westfield, Massachusetts
You are invited to join 24 other creative, spiritually-oriented women for a peaceful, creative, FUN weekend of community, SoulCollageĀ® card making, art journaling, and divine inner discoveries.
We will use SoulCollageĀ®, journaling,Ā guided imagery, small group sharing, ceremony,Ā and readings with our cards in order to explore the theme of The Beauty of Belonging. This will include optional workshop sessions on honoring our ancestors and teachers, friendship, community and more.
There will be LOTS of time for card making and sharing our SoulCollageĀ® cards, as well as doing readings with our Decks.
If you’d like to come early to the weekend, you’ll be able to participate in a gloriously creative, fun, and inspiring pre-retreat art workshop with KAT KIRBY (stay tuned for more announcements about this).Ā This is optional, but we’re hoping you’ll clear your schedule for it!Ā (Our opening retreat circle doesn’t begin until Thursday night.)
The card making tables will be set up around the clock all three days, so you can make SoulCollageĀ® cards while breakout sessions are going on, in the middle of the night, and in your jammies by the light of the moon if you want!
All teaching sessions are optional (except for the Opening and Closing Circles).Ā At our KaleidoSoul Retreats, you are always encouraged to relax and renew in whatever ways speak most deeply to your soul.
At this women-only retreat, you’ll…
- Spend three days/nights at Genesis Retreat Center, a beautiful retreat center surrounded by woods and many acres of trails in Westfield, MA (about 5 miles
west of Springfield). As soon as you drive through the gates, you’ll breathe a deep sigh of relief as peaceful energy envelops and awakens your soul. - This is time for you!
- Enjoy hours and hours of sifting through images and making SoulCollageĀ® cards to your heart’s content.
- Dive deeper into your SoulCollageĀ® work and play by participating in activities, workshops, ceremonies, and guided meditations designed specifically to help you deepen your relationship with yourself and with all of your cards
- Get to know others who are embracing SoulCollageĀ® as a spiritual practice and tool for self-expression.
- Make new friends and have FUN!
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Teresa
Location
Genesis Spiritual Life and Conference Center offers hospitality to persons of all faiths, cultures and lifestyles. They are committed to designing and hosting programs that foster holistic integration of body, mind and spirit. The Genesis logo, a tree, reflects the belief that creation is ongoing and that each person always has the possibility of new beginnings in life and prayer.
Set on 19 scenic wooded acres in Westfield, Massachusetts (very close to Springfield), Genesis offers peace and tranquility, wooded walks, natural landscapes and peaceful blooming gardens, along with comfortable lodging, lots of enticing artsy nooks and crannies, and delicious home-cooked meals.
As soon as you drive through the gates, youāll breathe a deep sigh of relief as peaceful energy envelops and awakens your soul.
All rooms at Genesis are private, although you will be sharing a bathroom with a few others.
Click here for general info about Genesis. The address to put into your GPS is 53 Mill St, Westfield MA
Previous Retreat Participants Are Saying:
- The experience was more powerful than I could have imagined.Ā My creative fire has been stoked and I will keep on creating!
— Amy Menard, Andover, MA
- The loveliness of the whole weekend has really stayed with us…especially how taken care of we felt by your generosity…the abundance of gifts and images, the delicious food, and the beauty of the area. –Cynthia Shaw and Laina Leckie, Nyack, NY
- I went to the retreat expecting one dimension to my experience, but found a sense of self and community that was totally unexpected. — Sue Ferrell, Westford, MA
- This retreat was one of the most rewarding and enjoyable experiences I’ve ever had. My self-love, self-nurturing and connections within myself were turned up several notches this weekend. I feel as if questions have been answered and the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders. I feel at peace and unified within myself and within the community. — Janet Levine, NY
- I now feel re-connected, peaceful and rejuvenated. — Brenda Fernandez, MA
- It was like diving into a well of synchronicity. — Stephanie Harkness, Winthrop, ME
- You never know before an experience like this how much the heart will open. Anne Marie and Anne created such a safe space that mine opened effortlessly. — Laura Hegfield, NH
- Anne Marie is a gifted facilitator and is able to create both a sacred and safe space, and to both nurture/affirm and stretch others to explore more and go deeper.– Lis Gordon, Beverly, MA
- My expectations were not grand but I never could have expected what has happened. Transformations happened right before our eyes! It was a wondrous and exciting weekend. — Joyce Hokans, Shrewsbury, MA
- I loved having the freedom to do whatever I wanted instead of having to adhere to a rigid schedule. I REALLY loved having so much open time to make cards. — Dot Everhart, PA
If you’ve been practicing SoulCollageĀ® on your own, this is a tremendous opportunity to experience the powerful energy that comes from creating SoulCollageĀ® cards in community.
If you’ve practiced SoulCollageĀ® in a group already, this is a great way to expand your circle of SoulCollageĀ® sisters while growing closer to your own beautiful Self.
Meet Your Retreat Facilitators
Anne Marie Bennett is a published author, self-taught artist, experienced SoulCollageĀ® Facilitator and Trainer Emeritus of Facilitators who trained directly with Seena Frost, the founder of SoulCollage, in 2005. She is the creative “genius” behind KaleidoSoul.com.Ā Anne Marie has a BS degree in Education from Southern Connecticut State University and has taught children, teens and adults throughout the East Coast. Her workshop and retreat participants flourish as she gently guides them through the process of self-discovery while encouraging playful, creative self-expression with a joyful, open heart.
She passionately believes that we are all lit from within… and that SoulCollageĀ® helps to embrace the shadows from our souls so that we can be our true, radiant, authentic selves. Anne Marie lives, laughs, writes, sings (and makes her own SoulCollageĀ® cards!) in Beverly, MA.
Anne Boedecker,Ā PhDĀ bringsĀ 40Ā years of experience as a psychotherapist andĀ Buddhist practitioner to her work in spirituality and the arts. Her passion is the creative care of the soul throughĀ meditation, nature, writing, and expressive art. She delights in exploring mixed media, playing freely with paint, paper and found objects.
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Kat Kirby has been a believer in the healing power of the arts and creative self-expression since the early seventies. After a fulfilling forty-year career as an Expressive Arts Therapist, Kat now spends time in her studio, creating and teaching art workshops.
Kat trained as a SoulCollage Facilitator with Seena Frost in 2006, and became a SoulCollage Facilitator Trainer, which she enjoyed for ten years. Kat loves combining this process with creating handmade books at her annual art retreats in Taos New Mexico, Carefree Arizona, and now Westfield Massachusetts!
When she teaches, whether it be virtual or in person, her two rules are:Ā 1) You canāt be wrong, and 2) Have fun!
Visit her on her website here.
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PAYMENT INCLUDES:
3 nights accommodations at Genesis Retreat Center (everyone gets a single room with shared bath)- 6 healthy, delicious, home-cooked meals + 3 continental breakfasts
- daily nourishing snacks
- participation in all SoulCollageĀ® activities
- access to thousands of new magazine images, and magazines to enhance your card making
- optional massage and body work to comfort your body as well as your soul
- use of the conference center’s 19 acres of wooded walks, natural landscapes and peaceful blooming gardens
- a KaleidoSoul gift bag full of pampering, creative goodies and gifts
Your Investment- One Payment
THIS RETREAT IS CURRENTLY FULL.
To add yourself to the waiting list, please use the “Contact” button at the top of this page.
Full Price-Ā Ā $914
Kindred Spirit Members- $864
NOTE: If you are NOT a Kindred Spirit member,
we will send you a paypal invoice for the additional $50.00 and the invoice is due upon receipt.
Your Investment- Payment Plan
THIS RETREAT IS CURRENTLY FULL.
To add yourself to the waiting list, please use the “Contact” button at the top of this page.
8 monthly payments of $112
NOTE: This monthly price is ONLY for Kindred Spirit Members!
If you are not a Kindred Spirit member,
we will send you a paypal invoice for the additional $50.00, payable on receipt.
OTHER HELPFUL INFORMATION
*** This intimate retreat is limited to 25 SoulCollagers, so sign up soon!Ā Your space is reserved as soon as you make your first payment.
*** Check-in begins on Thursday October 23 at 3 pm. Dinner will be served at 6 pm followed by our Opening Circle from 7:30-9 pm. The retreat will end on Sunday October 27 after our Closing Circle at 12 noon.
*** Creative art workshop- This will take place on Thursday afternoon, with our guest Facilitator and artist Kat Kirby.Ā More info will be sent to you in the summer. This is optional (although we hope you’ll join us for a creatively delightful experience). NOTE: There is an additional fee to attend this pre-retreat art workshop.
*** Genesis Retreat Center gladly accommodates special dietary needs. We will be sending you a questionnaire in early September for you to let us know this information.
*** The full amount is non-refundable after September 1, 2025, unless we can fill your space with someone from our waiting list.
*** All cancellations incur a $75 cancellation/processing fee.
*** If you are following the convenient, easy monthly payment plan, the amount indicated will be automatically deducted from your credit/debit card (or PayPal account) each month. Please contact Anne Marie (using the “Contact” button on the top menu on this page) if you prefer to pay via check or Venmo.
*** Directions to Genesis Retreat Center can be found here.
*** If you are flying in to this retreat, you should fly into Hartford Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport. If you’d like to be put in contact with other SoulCollagers who are flying in at the same time as you, please contact Anne Marie by using the Contact button on the top menu bar.
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each otherās souls,
and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.
~ Joan Borysenko