Embracing the Wisdom & Stories
Of Our Younger Selves
A magical, informative,
experiential deep dive
into the various ways we can
discover and champion our many Inner Child parts
via the SoulCollage® process
with Anne Marie Bennett
and 6 Guest Facilitators
January – June 2025
6 Three-Hour Zoom Classes
+
Bonus Access to KaleidoSoul’s Self-Study Course
on the Committee Suit
ALL VIDEO CLASSES WILL BE RECORDED
SO YOU DON’T NEED TO ATTEND “LIVE.”
Meet and work/play with several of your own inner children.
Explore and deepen your understanding of this aspect of the Committee suit.
Expand your SoulCollage® deck.
Connect with the international SoulCollage® community.
Get some great ideas for workshops if you’re a Facilitator.
Why Work and Play
with Our Younger Selves / Inner Children?
Listen to the wisdom from our Facilitators!
Our younger selves help us understand and embrace our life’s journey and the person we are today. They may reflect the potential that remains, who we may yet become. They provide enthusiasm and honesty. They demand authenticity. They welcome adventure and don’t fear failures. From our earliest years to young adulthood, we have been developing into who we are. Each age, stage and phase of younger life has aspects waiting to be embraced, understood, and recast in the story of now. ~ Michele Manos, SoulCollage Facilitator, California (Session 1)
Working with my inner children helps me understand my life journey more fully, bringing healing and new perspective where it’s needed. I’ve comforted the girl who yearned to trade her small town for a bigger world. I’ve reclaimed younger selves I had seen as misguided, and best of all, rejoiced in glimpses of my essence unfolding. ~ MJ Abell, SoulCollage® Facilitator, Ohio (Session 5)
When we bring compassionate presence to the messages our inner children have for us, we tap into their authentic, intuitive wisdom and the messages they still need us to hear. The process of SoulCollage is a wonderful way to deepen into an inner child journey where we can reconnect, reimagine and reclaim this life giving inspiration with its gifts of deep soulful connection and more freedom for spontaneity, creativity and playful joy! ~ Glenda Cedarleaf, SoulCollage® Facilitator, North Carolina (Session 2)
We hope that this series brings a deeper understanding, experience, and acceptance of your own younger selves, along with some splashes of playfulness, joy, and inspiration.
This online video SoulCollage® series is for you if . . .
… you are curious about your own Inner Children / Younger Selves and would like to know how to integrate them into your life today
… you want to feel more connected to yourself and your journey
… you want to feel more connected to the wisdom of your body
… you would like to embody and embrace more wholeness in your life
… you are ready to learn, discover, and explore the depths of your own SoulCollage® deck
Join this unique online Zoom workshop series to:
* feel more connected to yourself, and the wider SoulCollage® community
* learn about and experience the wisdom of your many younger selves/inner children using left and right brain modalities
* enjoy a space to better understand your own life’s journey within our explorations led by our experienced Facilitators (see their bios and photos below)
* add some new SoulCollage® cards to your deck
* enter into dialogue with some of your own younger selves
* discover how we can all intentionally honor and work with these inner children in order to enrich, broaden, and deepen our own extraordinary, authentic, creative lives
If you are making an inner child card, don’t include various different child energies on this one card. In time you can create several inner child cards, e.g., Happy Child, Lonely Child, Sacred Child, etc. ~ Seena B. Frost, Founder of SoulCollage®
What you’ll receive:
* Participation in SIX 3-HOUR VIDEO CLASSES moderated by Anne Marie Bennett + led by SIX experienced guest Facilitators who have used the wisdom of their own inner children in their personal SoulCollage® practice and workshops
* A BONUS GIFT of easy access to KaleidoSoul’s SoulCollage® Self-Study course on the Committee Suit
* Access to the video recordings of all 6 Zoom classes as well as the abundant handouts/resources that are shared during each class
* Forever access to all 6 classes (along with the Self-Study course)- yours to keep as powerful resources for your continuing journey
* Weekly inspiring “Sunday Soul Suggestions” after each workshop. These are intended to help keep you focused on the current aspect of the Inner Child that we are exploring. The Sunday Soul Suggestions include recommended resources, SoulCollage® activities, inspirational quotes, journaling ideas, and more.
*During each workshop, our guest Facilitator will introduce various ways of understanding and working with an aspect of our Inner Children/Younger Selves and we’ll be 
doing this work together.
* During our video classes, we’ll spend a lot of our time actually EXPERIENCING OUR INNER CHILDREN. That’s right, we’re not going to simply TALK about them, we’re actually going to EXPERIENCE them! So be sure to bring a well-loved journal and comfortable pen with you, along with your open heart and curious mind.
* Informative and visual left-brain teaching presentations and small group discussion, as well as right-brain guided imagery experiences, journaling, movement, ceremony, music, story, poetry, card readings, and the SoulCollage® process will form the basis of of our inner explorations in these workshops (not necessarily in that order!).
* Handouts and resources for each class
* A private place online to post your cards and/or inner discoveries throughout this journey (optional)
* Generous email support from Anne Marie Bennett and our guest Facilitator of the month
ALL VIDEO CLASSES WILL BE RECORDED
SO YOU DON’T NEED TO ATTEND “LIVE.”
Basic outline of each 3-hour video workshop:
First 30 minutes
* Welcome, small group discussion and sharing of cards/insights from the previous session (Anne Marie)
EXCEPTION: Class #1 with Michele Manos will be a full three hours.
Next 2.5 hours
* Guest Facilitator’s in-depth presentation on the topic of the month (see topics below)
* Time for a break
* Small and large group sharing throughout (always optional)
* Closing blessing
Each in-depth presentation will include
* Factual (left-brain) information
* Experiential (right-brain) activities to bring us more in line with the energies of our younger selves
* Using our SoulCollage® cards in some way
* Recognition of this suit’s shadow aspects, as well as how these Neters influence/work with other suits in our decks
When you climb a beautiful mountain,
invite your child within to climb with you.
When you contemplate the sunset,
invite her/him to enjoy it with you.
―
Class Descriptions and Facilitators
Class 1
Magic from the Mouths of Babes:
Embracing Our Younger Selves
with Michele Manos & Anne Marie Bennett
Our younger selves help us better understand and embrace the person we are today. Our child Neters can also remind us of the potential that remains, who we may yet become. Our younger selves offer enthusiasm, honesty, and a large dose of authenticity! This session will introduce the many ways our inner children can heal and reveal.
During our time together, we’ll review how younger parts can settle into the SoulCollage® Committee suit, plus how they may influence Neters in other suits. We’ll briefly explore a spectrum of topics, including:
- Brainstorming and sharing to help us each identify important younger aspects
- Connecting your SoulEssence card and your Happy Child Neter
- Discovering inner children through our hopes and dreams
- Greeting the children within our “adult” Neters
- Meeting lifelong archetypal forces
- Tools for listening to and learning from younger Neters
You’ll get a broad foundation from which to get the most from the rich and varied sessions to come. I suspect you will also get lots of ideas for younger Neters you’d like to include in your deck. Most importantly, you’ll grow your enthusiasm for the unique constellation of wise and wonderful younger selves within you!
Dr. Michele Manos lives in Marin County, California and is the developer of SoulCollage® Card Games and Playing with a Full Deck Retreats. She trained as a Facilitator in 2008 with Seena Frost and has enthusiastically shared the magic ever since. Michele is intrigued by the wisdom of inner children, hosting “A SoulCollage® Weekend with Your Wise and Wonderful Younger Selves” in 2023. Learn more at her website.
DATE: Saturday January 4, 2025
TIME: 2-5 pm Eastern
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Class 2
Reconnecting with the Energy and Inspiration of Our Inner Playful Children
with Glenda Cedarleaf & Anne Marie Bennett
How are your inner children expressing playfulness, joy, and creativity in your life these days? Even if this precious connection may feel like an ancient memory, your inner children are still here; waiting to come out and play again. Are you facing difficult challenges or losses right now? Are you feeling creatively or spiritually stuck or bored ? Or are you currently living in a place of delight and new opportunities?
Wherever you are on this continuum, I invite you to join us as we focus on ways to rediscover, explore, and nurture our vital relationship with our inner children. No matter what is swirling around your life these days, bringing mindful attention to your inner children will help you navigate life with greater awareness, clarity and insight.
This class will feature guided imagery meditation, card readings, journaling reflection questions, and embodied activities for deepening the energy of your inner children connection.
Glenda Cedarleaf MSW is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Guided Imagery Meditation Recording Artist. The focus of her life’s work is to help you use the power of your imagination for soulful healing and creative transformation. Glenda trained as a SoulCollage® Facilitator with Audrey Chowdhury in 2012 and has incorporated SoulCollage® into her work with individual clients as well as in women’s circles, workshops and retreats. As a HeartCentered® Hypnotherapist since 2000, she has served as a guide to help clients rebuild their lives through developing a nurturing and embodied loving relationship with all aspects of the self (all of our inner children integrated with our inner wise being).
Glenda has written/recorded guided imagery meditations and bedtime stories since 1993. She is the author of 3 books including “A Guide for Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations: 70 Scripts included.” Her recordings are published on several meditation apps. Glenda recently relaunched her YouTube channel where she is uploading meditation videos and sleep stories 2 x weekly. Please visit Glenda on this page to find a buffet of meditation and bedtime stories videos created to soothe and inspire your inner child!
DATE: February 1, 2025
TIME: 2-5 pm Eastern
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Class 3
Healthy Inner Parenting Using the Model of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
with Eliza Goodell & Anne Marie Bennett
Seena Frost once wrote, “It is by separating out all of our parts that we become whole.” In Internal Family Systems (IFS), a non-pathologizing approach to therapy founded by Dr. Richard Schwartz, we learn that “All parts are welcome.” This model provides us with a way to “separate out” our parts into those aspects of us which make us human and those qualities of us which are more “noble.” When our system is “burdened,” the focus is often on wounded inner children who need to be protected, and the managers who try relentlessly to protect them.
The potential for a healthy parent is within all of us, but it needs to be nourished and developed. In IFS this happens through accessing our higher “SELF,” an energy comprised of eight C words that represent these qualities: Curiosity, Courage, Creativity, Compassion, Connection, Clarity, Calm, and Confidence. It has been said that “Where attention goes, energy flows!” In this workshop we will focus on creating more SELF energy, which allows the “inner children” to calm down, heal, and form a harmonious inner family.
Eliza Goodell, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in Ipswich, Massachusetts. For the past 25 years she has worked with individuals and their families doing neuropsychological testing. In 2015 she discovered SoulCollage® and became a Facilitator with Catherine Anderson in 2018. Since that time, she has shared SoulCollage® in the Boston area at Council on Aging classes, retreat centers, as well as for HOPE Yoga, a program for individuals with cancer. In 2011, Eliza completed Internal Family Systems Training-Level 1, and has been using this model in therapy with families and individuals. In addition, in 2013 she completed a six-month training at Shalom Mountain Retreat Center in New York, “Introduction to Shalom Process Training,” known today as “Training in the Art of Loving.” In her free time, Eliza enjoys making pottery and other creative endeavors including teaching workshops on how to make Ukrainian decorated eggs.
DATE: March 1, 2025
TIME: 2-5 pm Eastern
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Class 4
Seeing and Loving the Wounded Child
with Stephanie Anderson Ladd & Anne Marie Bennett
DATE: April 5, 2025
TIME: 2-5 pm Eastern
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Class 5
Harvesting Wisdom
from Our Younger Selves
with MJ Abell & Anne Marie Bennett
Our younger selves help us understand and embrace our life’s journey and the person we are today. In this session, we will harvest their wisdom and explore their potential help using prompts, poetry, invitations, and permission slips. First, we will look in our constellation of inner children for allies and advisors who could support our current needs. Which Neters could re-energize us, help us move toward our potential or support us in challenges?
In second part of our session, we will seek the wisdom and perspectives of our teen and young adult selves. Perhaps we have we overlooked someone who may be particularly relevant to our current story. What wisdom do they want to share?
Are there parts we’ve avoided or are embarrassed by because of their seemingly poor decisions or actions? How can we reconsider and reconcile them? Drawing on self-compassion, we will seek a peaceful place for them in our lives and see how they might be present now in healthy, helpful ways.
MJ Abell felt the power of symbols first through writing poetry, and she now voyages the rich seas of writing, SoulCollage®, dreamwork, and personal growth work. MJ became a SoulCollage® Facilitator in 2013, training with Mili Dillard. She is also a narrative coach and certified in Strengths and DISC assessments. In all of her workshops, MJ helps participants expand their self-awareness through creative play, reflection, and practical tools. Since 2018, she has developed and presented workshops for the VA Whole Health program in Columbus, Ohio. For the past six years, MJ has assisted Michele Manos with her retreats and online classes. She created and led several writing adventures at Michele’s 2023 “Embracing Our Younger Selves” SoulCollage® retreat. Learn more about MJ in the short video The Girl Who Loved Scissors.
DATE: May 3, 2025
TIME: 2-5 pm Eastern
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Class 6
Embody the Freedom
of Your Inner Children
with Gentle Movement & Meditation
with Kimberly Lee & Anne Marie Bennett
We conclude the series with a playful workshop designed to help us connect with the free-spirited energy of our inner child through the art of SoulCollage®, movement, journaling, and guided visualization. In this creative, heart-centered experience, we’ll tune in to the vibrant, carefree essence of our inner children, the ones who appreciated their bodies before harsh, judgmental societal voices set in.
This session will be about tapping into our joy, releasing old limitations, and embracing the freedom to move, create, and express ourselves with pure delight. With unique, inspiring prompts and activities, we’ll use our SoulCollage® deck to tap into our imagination and explore insight through the connection between our cards and our bodily wisdom. We’ll leave feeling empowered, refreshed, and ready to carry the spirit of joy and wonder back into our daily lives.
Kimberly Lee, JD, is a versatile writer, educator, and creativity coach with a passion for nurturing the imaginative spirit and helping others reveal their own inner wisdom. She left the practice of law some years ago to focus on motherhood, community work, and creative pursuits. A graduate of Stanford University and UC Davis School of Law, she is a SoulCollage® facilitator and has also completed training with the Groove Method®, Amherst Writers & Artists, The Center for Journal Therapy, The Center for Intentional Creativity, and The Path Meditation. A teaching artist with several writing centers, Kimberly has led workshops at numerous retreats and conferences. Recent collaborations include the Omega Institute, UCLA Arts and Healing Initiative, and The Expressive Therapies Summit. Kimberly’s stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, and her debut novel will be published in 2025. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three children.
DATE: June 7, 2025
TIME: 2-5 pm Eastern
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ALL VIDEO CLASSES WILL BE RECORDED
SO YOU DON’T NEED TO ATTEND “LIVE.”
What SoulCollagers Are Saying About Our
KaleidoSoul Zoom Celebration Series:
I loved the entire series. It was well thought-out, organized, and very professional. I felt very safe in a group of like-minded people. Thank you for a wonderful experience.
I really appreciated the weekly engagement emails in between sessions, and the many, many handouts. I felt encouraged to work more consistently with my SoulCollage® cards.
There was a great balance of left brain learning and right brain experiencing.
It was very nice to meet all these beautiful SoulCollagers from all over the world!
I appreciated the immense wisdom that everyone shared. A lot of work was put into the Chakra Extravaganza and the timing was perfect. I also looked forward to the weekly emails of resources and activities to keep the experience going.
Even though I am just starting this series (better late than never), I can sense the powerfulness of the work and the deep connection with myself that it is already providing.
I have discovered lots of great tools for my work as a therapist and coach and also my own healing and growth.
Truly, each guest Facilitator brought their own unique gifts. I loved that there was a variety and not the same Facilitator each month. Anne Marie lended continuity and held it all together beautifully with her opening presentations for each session.
Every session was well-structured. I enjoyed the variety of the presenters and what each one offered.
I really loved meeting and connecting with other SoulCollagers from all over the place! It was wonderful to connect with them in all of the small group breakout sharing sessions.
What was really great was that you gathered together Facilitators with so many different teaching styles. No two sessions were alike!
Thank you for this offering. It was worth every penny as well as the time that I put into watching the videos and doing the “homeplay.”
I had a great time! I will go back to these classes again and learn new things. It’s wonderful that that’s possible.
I loved the many different guest Facilitators and the ability to watch the videos later and not have to watch “live.” So much work went into each presentation, that was obvious.
I learned so many new things about my deck that went beyond the topic of the series.
I appreciated the integrity of the environment that was set up for us to go deep, share, feel… I thought that the variety in topic, format, speakers, participants, was helpful. I also liked the time in between Zooms to continue the work with weekly loving email reminders and activities.
It was absolutely amazing how this pulled together so many different aspects, yet it was a cohesive whole.
It has helped me with growing into my own SoulCollage® practice.
I wasn’t able to attend “live,” but I really loved the experience of watching the videos afterwards. I found the speakers all quite wonderful and I got a lot out of each class. It was kindof nice to be able to pause the videos when I needed more time to process the information and guided imagery…etc.
Within every person, there is a child.
That child is filled with wonder, creativity,
and the belief that anything is possible.
– Catia Hernandez Holm
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Scholarships Deadline December 17
In gratitude for how much SoulCollage® has meant in my own life, I am pleased to offer FIVE full-tuition scholarships to this course, for those who cannot afford the tuition.
Please send me a brief email explaining why you would like to be in our 2025 SoulCollage Celebration of Our Inner Children and why you want to be considered for a scholarship.
Send your request to: annemarie@kaleidosoul.com and be sure to put SCHOLARSHIP in the subject line.
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When the costume is removed,
an innocent child stands asking for love.
~ Alan Cohen