Working with images can take us deep. Images can get to “the words below the words”and can help us bridge the gap when there are experiences for which we don’t yet have the words. Working with SoulCollage® is like awake dream work. You will find that working with images can be refreshing and can recharge your creative batteries. No previous “artist experience or skill” needed. Come with “beginners mind”, ready to engage in deep play and discovery! In this workshop, you will learn about the process of SoulCollage®. Each day we will cover a different facet of the process, and each day you will be able to create cards for your individual, intuitive deck of SoulCollage® cards. Part of the process is written dialogue with the images on the cards you have made. Each day, you will have the option to use some of the workshop time to write from your cards. Even though all art supplies will be furnished, please feel free to bring copies of photos of important people, animals, landscapes in your lives, or to bring any images that call to you between now and then. (But you do not need to bring anything-- there will be PLENTY of images, art paper, stickers etc. to choose from every day!!!!). There will be a voluntary daily donation to help cover the cost of art supplies. Each participant will also receive a poetry packet and handouts that give more in depth background on the SoulCollage® process.
SoulCollage® is a process for creating small collages on matboard. There is no “regulation size” but the most commonly used size is 5 X 8 inches, because it needs to be small enough to be a card in a deck of intuitive cards, but large enough to work with easily when collaging. This process was developed by Seena Frost, and at this writing there are hundreds of trained SoulCollage® facilitators in the US and around the world. Judith Prest trained in 2008 with Seena Frost to be a facilitator of SoulCollage® workshop. For more background on SoulCollage®, visit their website at
www.soulcollage.com.
