The SoulCollage
Community Suit-
Your Support Team

The SoulCollage® Community Suit is for honoring and celebrating the people and animals whose support and love make a difference in our lives. The number of cards in this suit will vary in each SoulCollage Deck, as will the names of the people and animals who are honored.

Your Community Suit will have family members, ancestors, friends, teachers, healers, pets, favorite authors, or……???

The people/animals may be alive or dead. You may know them personally or you may only know them through what you’ve read about them (see my Renee Zellweger card to the left). What matters is that each SoulCollage Community card represents a distinct energy that has held you and uplifted you, or challenged you, at some time in your life.

You can listen to an audio recording about the Community suit here.

Making community cards is like weaving invisible threads around all my friends and drawing them close to me.
---Jeri Bodemar

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Making a Community List

Here are some questions that will help you begin to make a list of possible Community cards for inclusion in your SoulCollage deck. Try not to think too hard, just write whoever comes to mind. You don’t have to make a card for everyone you put on this list. The questions are just to get you started.

• Name at least 10 living people who are or have been important to you.



• Name at least 2 ancestors whose energy you admired when they were alive.



• Name 3 teachers who made a difference in your life.



• Think of all the great beings in history. Name 3 you would like to consult about your life.



• Who do you want with you when you feel like playing or having fun?



• Who would you like nearby if you feel sad or physically unwell?



• Name 5 people you would want with you if you were stranded on a desert island for a month.



• Name 5 people you would want on your team if you were a Survivor contestant.



• Name 2 people (past or present) whose challenges push you to the edge and help you to grow.



• Name some animals who are/have been important to you.



• Are there any authors, musicians, artists, or actors whose work has touched you during your life? If there are, add them to the list.



• Are there any religious figures who have special meaning in your life? Name them.
  
  
• Think of all the groups that you have belonged to on your life’s journey. Name 3 groups that really made a difference in your life.

Making the Community Cards

You might be wondering about images for your Community Cards. Most of the pictures you will use for these cards will be photographs. It’s a wonderful experience to go through your photo albums and look at beloved faces. When I first did this, I was amazed at the abundance of people who had graced my life over the years, and how many of them truly loved and cherished me.

However, you will need more than photographs to make your Community Cards. You can use magazine images and/or various scrapbooking papers as backgrounds that capture their individual essences. Explore different colors, textures, and pictures.

If you want to make a Community Card for someone in your life and you don’t have a photo of them, simply make a collage of backgrounds and images that remind you of them, or that call to mind their uniqueness and personality.

For example, I don’t have a photograph of my therapist, but I really want to include her in my SoulCollage Deck. To me, her deepest essence speaks of wisdom, truth, affirmation, and kind focused listening. As I go through magazines, I keep an eye out for images that represent these qualities to me (ie: an owl, a smiling Buddha, a lotus flower).

You can do the same for the members of your Community for whom you have no photographs.

Sharing the Community Cards

If possible, when you’ve finished making a Community Card, share it with the person whom it honors. This is a wonderful testament to any relationship, and can strengthen family ties as well.

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audio recording
about the Community Suit.

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SoulCollage Community Cards.

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