Women’s Retreat: Discovering SoulCollage®
October 26 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
$150.00
SoulCollage® is an easy, enjoyable, intuitive collage process for self-discovery and community.
SoulCollage® is a creative, expressive art process for intuitively discovering and honoring yourself—to smile about yourself, bring light to your shadows, and connect with your inner wisdom and strengths.
This daylong retreat will introduce SoulCollage® concepts to beginners and refresh them for the more experienced. If you crave an opportunity to delve deeper, come and spend time in a safe and inspirational space exploring the collage that is you! All materials included.
Our morning:
- Welcome Coffee and Conversation
- Introduction to SoulCollage® and the Suits
- Creative Exercise
Lunch followed by a Nature Walk
Our afternoon:
- Card Creating/Deck Building
- Come together and discuss cards
- Wrap-Up and an invitation to join WHRL’s monthly SoulCollage® gathering
Lunch is included.
More about SoulCollage®
If you know the saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” or you can hum Rod Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells a Story,” you have begun to understand the essence of SoulCollage. Yes, “SoulCollage”… two words deliberately fused together by its founder, the late Seena Frost, who developed the concept into an international community. Her first book, SoulCollage®, was a finalist for the Nautilus 2002 Book Awards for “titles that contribute significantly to conscious living and positive social change.”
The process involves cutting or tearing images from magazines, catalogs, junk mail, old calendars, greeting cards… anything destined for recycling or the landfill. Chosen because they somehow appeal or even repel, these pictures become the raw material for a 5” x 7” collage.
If collage sounds like artwork, fear not! No special skills are needed. If you can glue one piece of paper to another, you can create a SoulCollage®!
Slowly, these images can begin to “speak” to you. As your imagination and intuition place them together, they begin to develop new meanings. You will start a deck of cards– visual journals that may surprise you with their insights. Think of them as postcards from your soul. Learn more about SoulCollage® here.
An essential part of the SoulCollage® process is the joy of tapping into one’s intuition to answer current life questions. The visual images that have mysteriously found us, the ones we have glued onto cards and named as our guides, allies, and challengers, will now help us access deep knowings in ourselves. People who [later] consult their cards in personal readings, using the signature “I Am One Who… ” exercise, are often surprised at the synchronicity of the cards they draw, and by the wisdom of their answers.
About Bonnie Johnson
Bonnie, Certified Soul Collage® Facilitator, has a B.S. in Home Economics and Family Life Studies from Hood College and worked in childcare, spending years observing and learning from infants, toddlers, and their families. After moving to beautiful Maine, she became interested in creative art expression and eventually, discovered SoulCollage®️, founded by Seena Frost. Finding it fun and enlightening, she became a Trained Facilitator in 2017 and has been swimming in oceans of images and colors ever since. Engaging in Soul Collage with anyone seeking creative exploration in their life is a joy and gift.
About Ora Aselton
With a BA in education and art, Ora taught art at Narraguagus High School for 24 years, retiring in 2008. She volunteers with WHRL and Pleasant River Garden Club while exploring her own art in various media and styles.
One of the most interesting and exciting of these explorations has been SoulCollage. “I felt an instant attraction to this process and have spent countless hours cutting and pasting images while discovering layers of myself. I am honored to work with Bonnie as we bring this workshop to you.”