Jenn facilitator card
This is a new year, and with it comes a new role for me – to train people
interested in becoming facilitators of SoulCollage(R) workshops.
SoulCollage(R) (www.soulcollage.com) is the single most interesting creative
process for self-exploration that I have used in over twenty years of leading creative
journaling classes and retreats for women.
Basically, it can described as an easy, image-based tool to
delve into a dialogue with the self in a deep, but playful way. I find it more satisfying
than journaling alone (although we do journal and write with the 5 x 8 cards we
make). I find it calls on my inner artist without challenging my lack of art skills
– anyone can cut and paste images onto cardboard cards. And exploring these images with my imagination,
finding out where they come from and what they mean, allows my inner wisdom to
pop up as I gain intuitive insights. Sharing this with others in community also
provides hours of fun and creative flow.
Founder Seena Frost described it this way: "It is a
tangible way to know yourself in your diversity and depth, and also to show
yourself to others. Showing your deck of SoulCollage® cards to another
person can be a profound experience. In like-spirited groups, you can
share cards and work with them in many sacred ways. You can consult them intuitively
and discover wisdom within yourself which will amaze you. Besides all this,
creating them is just plain fun! You will love your deck -- a multi-card Mirror
of your Self and your Soul -- whether it consists of three cards or a
hundred."
SoulCollage(R) has also proven to be a valuable therapeutic
tool when used by therapists and professionals as a part of their practice. It
has brought healing and guidance to individuals, groups and communities, such
as cancer wellness centers, seniors homes, women in prison, conflict
resolution, pastoral counseling, couples therapy and many more. Facilitators
are sharing and teaching this unique process in many ways with diverse
populations and in a wide range of environments.
Images,
intuition and imagination
The collage process we use helps to reflect and give a
voice to all our parts; sometimes images call to us and we don’t know why, it
seems beyond words, until we dialogue with the card and discover who or what it is. SoulCollage(R) is a great tool for awareness
and personal growth, and making the cards is a pleasing process full of synchronicity
and surprise. Some of the images you choose will symbolize inner parts of self,
maybe your Inner organizer, your happy inner child, or your inner lonely one,
or your Inner Nurturer. Others are larger energies, on a mythical level, like
the Great Mother, or the hero archetype. These universal stories are woven into
our own personal journeys and stories. I
see this process as a gathering of the whole, bringing all the pieces together,
the unknown or invisible ones, the silent or ignored ones, and acknowledging
them, reclaiming them.
Tapping into your own inner wisdom using images develops
intuition as well. The more you play with it, the more you learn to trust the
process. It’s a great life lesson. We can become our own wise oracle,
consulting our cards and using our imagination to let the images speak with us.
In my own women’s circle, some of us get together every two
weeks to make cards, dialogue with them, and then do card readings once a
month. Consulting cards you have made to represent energies and archetypes, parts
of self and members of your family and friends, is a very rich way of accessing
inner wisdom, and to my mind a lot less mysterious or esoteric than consulting
a deck of oracle cards devised by someone else with symbols I may or may not
understand.
There is no wrong or right way to do SoulCollage(R). It is
a gentle, intuitive self-care process that reaches deep into our inner pockets
of knowing. Most of the people I have introduced to it find it immensely
satisfying to both make cards and do readings.
Body Love card
In early July, I will be offering a 4 day SoulCollage(R) facilitator training. All information on
registration, lodging and fees is on my website at www.jenniferboire.com.
In the training, you will be given a comprehensive, step by
step workbook (manual), and all supplies are provided; accommodation and meals
are covered in the total fee. You will learn all about SoulCollage(R), how to use
it, how to incorporate it in your workshops, including ethical care, and be invited
to network with like-minded people.
The only pre-requisite is that you have followed
an Introductory course on SoulCollage(R), either in person or online, and begun
making cards for yourself, so you see the benefit of it, before starting to
share it with others as a facilitator.
Sample
card: Heart Focus for 2019 card
I made this card recently to represent an intention of mine
for the coming year. It said to me:
I am one who longs to feel my heart open. I am one who
receives guidance from the universe. I am one who feels connected when she is
around open-hearted, soulful creative people. I want to bring back more of that
Heart Focus in my life this year.
Heart Focus card
Watch this video to hear from some people attending a
facilitator training on how and why they love to work with SC. And if you want to learn more about
SoulCollage(R) or become a facilitator, just drop me a line.
Jennifer
