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Quotation of the Week
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
---Roy Adzak  
Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives We Are All Artists  I find many women in my workshops who are drawn to SoulCollage® because they can't draw and therefore don't consider themselves
"an artist."
And it was the same for me at the beginning. I was artistic and creative, and had been all my life, but I would never have used the word
"artist" to describe myself.
My father could draw a cat, a person, a diagram of a room… and it would be instantly recognizable and "good." I did not inherit his talent for drawing realistic images. And therefore, I decided that I wasn't "good enough" to be an artist. In my work with women in groups, I have seen hundreds of SoulCollage® cards. And sometimes we get all excited over how one card is so "beautiful" or "powerful" or "amazing." But a card is still "beautiful art" even if the majority of people wouldn't label it like that. I tell everyone who does SoulCollage® with me: I never met a SoulCollage® card I didn't like. As long as the card has moved the artist a litte further on the journey inward, then it can be called "good art," and only then can it be called beauty. Remember, the words "good" and "beautiful" are quite relative. Every SoulCollage® card (and I mean, every one of them!) is a true piece of art, and the goodness of that art is all about how it touches us inside, at our core. Reflection Activities of the Week: Do you have a SoulCollage® card in your Deck for the part of you who is an artist ( regardless of the fact that you can or can't draw)? Try saying these words out loud to yourself this week in a loving, gentle way: "I am an artist." What other voices make themselves known when you honor your Artist self? Maybe that voice/those voices also need to be honored with a SoulCollage® card.  SoulCollage®
ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Idea of the Week Choose one of your SoulCollage® cards, and walk a labyrinth with the card in your hands. Walk slowly and mindfully. Be open to anything your card might want to say to you during the walk. Pause before you begin your labyrinth walk. What question seems to be calling out to you at this time in your life? Walk the labyrinth, holding this question in your mind and heart. When your walk is done, make a SoulCollage® card that speaks to this question and to the answers that made themselves known to you on this walk.
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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 This call is tonight! Phone number to call: 1-218-936-4700 Access Code: 554421# Time:
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 15, 2009 (Friday, 8 pm Eastern) – SoulCollage® and the Medicine Wheel, with Alexa Singer-Telles, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. 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! July, 2009 - SoulCollage® and the Art of Sacred Listening, with Laura Hegfield, SoulCollage® Facilitator in New Hampshire. Consider allowing silence to be the container that holds your SoulCollage® practice. I believe that silence can open us to a more intimate listening experience, ultimately allowing us to drink a more satisfying cup of the sweet wisdom our cards have to offer. During this tele-class, Laura will offer some practical tips for incorporating more silence into your life and your SoulCollage® practice (alone, with friends or as a facilitator in workshops). Laura is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Yoga & Jewish Spirituality Teacher, Artist, Blogger, Wife and Mom practicing the sacred art of "life" in Southern NH. Please visit her blog, Shine the Divine to get to know her better before the call. (Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned.) 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. | |||||||
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, by Waverly Fitzgerald. An empowering book for anyone feeling starved for a more spacious and meaningful relationship with
time. Twelve weeks of exercises explore different dimensions of time from a moment to a lifetime. This book has really impacted my
life, as I used to have a love-hate relationship with the clock. I am now tuned in more to the seasons, as well as my own body's rhythms.
Recommended by
Kindred Spirit Sandra in California.
, by Gail Saltz. We all tell ourselves
"stories" about our lives that simply are not true. The stories are perpetuated by all those inner voices who entice
us to buy into their stories. This book helps us to get past those stories and closer to our authentic selves.
