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Highlights of this issue:
Quotation of the Week
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
Inner Journeys
with Anne Marie Bennett
Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage®
Into Our Daily Lives
Beginnings and Endings
 I love any kind of a celebration, but my two most
favorite holidays are Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Not New Year's Eve,
although I love the ritual of staying up until midnight and welcoming the
New Year in with family and friends.
New Year's Day is the holiday that really speaks to my soul.
There is something about this Big Beginning that entices me. A clean slate.
A new start. A chance to rearrange priorities. A new year, ready for me to
create as my very own.
Since I was a teenager, I have spent many a New Year's Day in solitude,
looking over my journals from the previous year. This ritual always gives me
a solid base from which to begin the new year. I have always
instinctively done this, but I have just recently come to understand that in
order to truly begin a new year with a fresh start, it helps to look back on
the old year I'm leaving behind. It helps to become aware of its blessings
and its shadows, its gifts as well as its challenges.
If it's been a really good year, I might even need to grieve its passing
before I can truly embrace the new one that I am approaching. Like T.S.
Eliot says in the quotation above, to make an end is to make a beginning.
And I will just add one more speck of wisdom to that, as we all move into
2010: to make a good beginning, it is necessary to let something come to an
end.
 SoulCollage® Expressions
Ideas and Challenges to Spice Up
Your SoulCollage® Practice
Challenge of the Week
In light of the above essay on endings and beginnings, I am sharing the
questions below. They are helping me immensely in my New Year's
journey and I hope they will be of value to you as well. They are from
Jamie Ridler Studios with a few additions of my own. Enjoy!
- What was the highlight of 2009 for
you?
- What was the low point?
- What are you proud of?
- What was fun?
- What in your life has changed?
- What has stayed the same?
- What did you say yes to in 2009?
- What did you say no to?
- Who are the new people who entered
your life in 2009?
- Who did you say good-bye to in 2009?
- What were the gifts of 2009?
- What were the challenges?
- What do you want to remember?
- What would you like to celebrate?
- What did you love about 2009?
- If 2009 was a painting, what colors
would it be?
- What would you like to leave behind in
2009?
- What do you want to take with you into
2010?
- What are you yearning to add into
2010?
Is there a SoulCollage® card asking to be
made, maybe one that represents what 2009 was for you? And/or maybe one that
represents what you'd like 2010 to be?
 Kindred Spirits Member News
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Our Next Tele-Class
Awaken Your Muse, with Jill Badonsky
SoulCollage® Facilitator and author (among other things) in
California.
 Wake up your New Year with this joyful, fun class!
We will awaken, tap into, and cultivate the personas of creativity and
imagination that can serve our resourcefulness as well as our ability to
experience joy. Be ready with your journal and a favorite pen to be guided by a
few of Jill Badonsky's
The Nine Modern Day Muses along with the
Creative Muse Archetype in this journey towards authenticity and creative
confidence.
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Time:
7:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Central,
5pm Mountain, 4pm Pacific,
2pm Hawaiian, Wednesday 12am in London,
Wednesday 11:00am in Melbourne Australia
and Wednesday 1pm in New Zealand
Save the date now.
All of our tele-classes are FR*EE for members, always!
And remember, don't worry if you can't attend...
we'll be recording it and you can listen to it anytime in your
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We will give you the phone number and access code
to call in that week's issue of Soul Treasures.
Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters:
February 25, 2010 (Tuesday, 7 pm Eastern)- Eye of the Hawk SoulCollage® Reading, with Mili
Ballard, SoulCollage® Facilitator & Facilitator Trainer in North Carolina.
Mili will share a brief description of the transpersonal map of the psyche that
includes the biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal levels of consciousness.
Founded on the work of Stanislav Grof, transpersonal psychology purports that
for sustainable healing to occur, all three levels of the psyche must be touched
within the transformative process. Mili will guide us through an "Eye of the
Hawk" reading that incorporates these concepts to potentially expand our
awareness, consciousness, and personal healing/growth via our own SoulCollage®
decks. Mili Ballard has been a SoulCollage® facilitator since May 2005
and a SoulCollage® facilitator trainer since February 2007. Mili is a training
consultant within business and industry and also focuses on assisting
individuals involved in their own processes of personal transformation. Mili and
her life partner Johnny Dillard, also a trained SoulCollage® facilitator,
co-lead "Just" Blank Cards, their private practice focusing on using the
communicative power of images to enhance relationships with self and others.
Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned!
March 2010 - Demeter and Persephone Myth/the Mother-Daughter
Archetypes, with mother-daughter team Cat and Darcy Meehan,
SoulCollage® Facilitators in California. More details coming soon.
April 2010 - Emperor/Empress Archetypes, with Lisa Abend,
SoulCollage® Facilitator in Massachusetts. More details coming soon.
MidWest SoulCollage® Facilitator Training
April 23-25, 2010 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota
 Registration is now open for
Anne Marie Bennett's next facilitator training, to be held at
Maureen Carlson's Center for Creative Arts in Jordan, Minnesota, about 20
miles southwest of the twin cities.
This training will begin at 3 pm on Friday April 23 and end at 2 pm on Sunday
April 25.
 
Opening to Mystery: Exploring the Council
Suit
KaleidoSoul's 5th Annual Weekend Retreat
 June 10-13, 2010
Rolling Ridge Retreat Center
Andover, MA
It's not too soon to make plans for this fun weekend of community,
card making, and inner discoveries. We'll be exploring the following aspects of
SoulCollage®:
* Source Card
* SoulEssence Card
* Witness Card
* Council Suit (archetypes & spirit guides)
NOTE: As a Kindred Spirit Member, you are entitled to $50 off the regular retreat price. For
more information about cost and details about the actual retreat, please visit
your Retreat Member Discount Page.
Please send a reply to this email if you've forgotten your member password or if
you have any questions.
ONLY 2 SPACES LEFT!
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When the Soul Whispers
- Extensive SoulCollage® Gallery from Kindred Spirit Cecilia in Florida.
Jamie Ridler Studios -
I really urge you to delve into this absolutely amazing and creatively inspiring
website/blog. If you don't know where to start, check out her page of workshops/activities.
I haven't seen anything this creatively inspiring (and fr*ee) for a long time!
Recommended byKindred Spirit Cheryl in Illinois.
Chakra Tele-Seminar
Series - with SoulCollage® Facilitator Jenni Holloway. Starting in
February 2010, each month will focus on one chakra. Learn how the chakras can
help us heal ourselves and know ourselves better.
Odyseetv.com - The very first
web-based TV station about people who are saving wildlife.
Invictus featuring
Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon. An astonishing and incredibly entertaining movie
about the power of forgiveness, the art of transformative leadership, and the
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Linden's Last Life, by Alan Cohen. If you follow my writings, you know
that I quote Alan Cohen often. I am a huge fan of his
nonfiction writings on mindfulness, wisdom, and inner authenticity. This is his
first novel and I loved every page! It tells the story of Linden, a young man in
his 30's, who has reached the end of his rope. Feeling he has nothing to live
for, he is ready to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. A mysterious monk rescues
him and gives him refuge for a few nights. Linden then decides to escape the
pain of the world forever, and makes a mystical deal (in a secret cave in the
wilds of Tibet) to never be reborn again (his last life). Then a strange and
unexpected turn of events happens and Linden has second thoughts about this
"deal." Can he reverse it? I'm not going to tell! I found this book to be
entertaining as well as insightful. I laughed out loud many times, and it also
gave me pause to think many times.
Book of Women's Sermons, by Lee E. Hancock. If you're looking for divine
inspiration or a graceful way to reaffirm your faith, this collection of sermons
and talks from women priests and poets, rabbis and canons, ministers and
professors may light your path. Many of these writings are inspired by Scripture
and others grew out of the authors' individual searches for God. While
traditionally women have played marginal roles in church leadership, this
collection shows that in today's world the voices of religion increasingly are
feminine. Here are Kathleen Norris, Lauren Artress, Joan E. Hemenway, Alice
Walker and others, lifting their voices to heaven and, as Barbara Bedway writes,
building 'bridges to God.'
Spiritual Literacy, by Frederick and Maryann Brussat. Subtitled
Reading the Sacred in Every Day Life, this wonderful book is an evocative
treasury of inspirational readings, accompanied by personal reflections and
meditations, features works by Helen Keller, Barbara Kingsolver, Thomas Aquinas,
and others on such themes as nature, relationships, animals, creativity, and
work.
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Inner Surprises
- Anne Marie's blog with an intimate look into her SoulCollage® Deck.
Soul Songs
- Complimentary monthly newsletter. Each one has a theme, something to do
with SoulCollage®, plus an article by Anne Marie Bennett, and Karen Mann,
SoulCollage® Facilitator in Australia.
The December issue
is all about 3rd Chakra Companions.
KaleidoSoul Community
Yahoo Group - This is a safe space where you can connect
with other SoulCollagers, post your cards (only if you want to) and ask your
questions.
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Spinning the fragments of your world
into wholeness and beauty
through SoulCollage®.
SoulCollage® cards are
made either from one's own art or from images found in materials which have
been bought by or given to the SoulCollage® card maker. These collaged cards
are used only for the cardmaker's own inner exploration.
SoulCollage® cards are not sold, traded, bartered, or copied (except as a
back-up for the card maker's own use) as is stated in the Principles of
SoulCollage®.
Where SoulCollage® cards are available to be seen by others, it is for the
purposes either of demonstrating the SoulCollage® process or of sharing the
card maker's inner process in the context of community.
SoulCollage® is grateful to the artists and photographers who make this deep
awakening process possible and in all ways SoulCollage® seeks to be
respectful of their rights.
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