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Quotation of the Week
The essential ingredient for creativity is wasting time.
----Anonymous   Soul
FriendsThe Voice of a Different Kindred Spirit Each Week Cat Meehan Petaluma, CA I've been doing SoulCollage® for about two years and it was an instant love affair for me. I became a SoulCollage® Facilitator within two months of being introduced to the process. At the time I was in Master's program and completing an intensive Life Coach certification; I was doing a great deal of introspective work including quietude, ancestral/shamanistic experience, transformative art and consciousness studies. I was also "gathering myself back" from years of intensive parenting and a recent divorce from a long marriage. I had already flown out of my old nest, and SoulCollage® synthesized every single element of what was emerging as important to me. SoulCollage® is a reflection all of the things that feed my soul - it contains the full spectrum of myself, my loves, my tribe, sprinkled with elements of myth, humanity, magic and the collective. SoulCollage® is the foundation of my spiritual practice. It allows me to express, contain, and revisit things that I had not previously allowed myself to embrace, both from within and without. SoulCollage® has been one of the pivotal processes leading to my expressing myself in art, and it has been a platform for continuing to explore my life through creativity. SoulCollage® is always a part of fanning the creative flame as I teach and guide others in life coaching, expressive arts and through journey work. I enjoy the simple practice of creating cards which I do at least twice a week and reading from a card, which I do daily. I actively use SoulCollage® to explore what I call the Spectrum of Self, exploring parts of self and subpersonalities through guided imagery and creating images. I also love to work with archetypes, personal mythology and visioning/dreamwork. I enjoy layering cards into storylines and working with them in mixed media as well. I have found that there is magical healing in SoulCollage®. Two of my daughters regularly do SoulCollage® with me and one of them will become a facilitator at Anne Marie’s upcoming training in Connecticut in April. In my studio, I teach classes which include a mixture of art, content, and guided imagery. Over and over I have seen the shift that impacts me in my individual SoulCollage® creating, impact individuals, ripple out into the group and beyond. I also have worked with parents and their teens in recovery, struggling with both with dual diagnosis and eating disorders. SoulCollage® allows the magic of non-verbal expression to "have its say" and assists healing from all perspectives. SoulCollage® is an amazing practice that truly meets each individual where they need it. It met me and I have never been the same! You can find me at either one of my websites: Revisioning Life or Cat Meehan Here are three of my current favorite cards:  Archetype
of Abandoned Child Suit: Council I am the one who is the abandoned child. I am the one who is put in a basket and floats away down the river. I am the one who grows into bitter wanting, looking at garden walls and yearning to see inside. I am the one who is in a bubble of independence floating above the grass that is greener. I am the one who is able to step away from the old truth and dance into greener pastures, I am the one who is healing into wholeness.  Abundance I am the one who holds the alighting of abundance in her hands. I am the one who giggles with joyful trust on wings of transformation incarnate. I am the one who revels in joy and sunlight. I am the colored garden of possibilities.  Returning to Flow I am the one who returns to flow. I am the one who leaves the dark knight on the banks as I follow the path to my self. I am the one who no longer needs the stagnant armored protector. I am the one who returns to my mother’s milk, the mountainous flow that is active engagement.  SoulCollage®
ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Challenge of the Week Create a Community suit card for your Deck for Seena Frost, the creator of SoulCollage®. Need inspiration? Check out this blog that shows many different SoulCollagers' cards to honor Seena. We made these cards to honor her 75th birthday two years ago.
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Our Next Tele-Class The Voices of Our Addictions: Transformation Through SoulCollage® Presented by Kat Kirby, SoulCollage® Facilitator and Art Therapist in San Diego, California  Shopping, food,
Internet use, other people, drugs, alcohol... These are all things that serve us
for a time, take away our pain, but eventually no longer work for us. We'll use
this hour together to talk about ways we can use SoulCollage® to remind us of
our authentic self, thereby freeing ourselves of our addictions and finding our
way back to health.
Here are some of Kat's cards about addiction that she will be discussing during the call. Date: Monday, March 16, 2009 Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Central, 5:00 pm Mountain, 4:00 pm Pacific, 2 pm Hawaiian, 11 pm in London, midnight in Rome, Tuesday 10 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Tuesday 12 noon 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 Member's Only Audio Library. 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:
April 2009 - Spicing Up the Soul of Life: Random Play with Your SoulCollage® Deck with Laurel Aston, Creativity Coach and SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. Join Laurel as she guides us through a couple of fun, deeply insightful activities that you can do with your Deck any time, any place. (Date and time to be announced... stay tuned). May 2009 - Date and time to be announced... stay tuned! June 14, 2009 (Sunday, 5pm Eastern) - Meditation and SoulCollage®: How Each Enhances the Other, with Marti Beddoe, Meditation Teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator in Illinois. For new as well as experienced mediators. Marti will share with us some ways that her SoulCollage® practice has benefited her meditation practice, and vice versa. If you are looking to deepen your SoulCollage® work, this is the class for you! Kindred Spirits SoulCollage® Retreat
Come As You Are:Nurturing Self-Acceptance with SoulCollage®, A Weekend Retreat June 25-28, 2009 Rolling Ridge Retreat Center Andover, Massachusetts There are only TWO spaces left.... is one of them for you? Everything you need to know is on this KaleidoSoul page. New England SoulCollage® Facilitator Training April 17-19, 2009 in Litchfield, Connecticut. If you've been longing to take your SoulCollage® practice out into the world by becoming an "official" Facilitator, then please join us for a beautiful spring weekend at Wisdom House. There's more information on this KaleidoSoul page. | |||||||
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