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Highlights of this issue:
 Quotation of the Week
The World Wide Web connected the dots of me in patterns I could not have
conceived.
---Jill Neimark  Q & A with Anne Marie Celebrating 200 Issues of Soul Treasures In honor of this very special issue, I sat down with Mary, our KaleidoSoul Virtual Assistant, and answered some questions that might interest you all. Mary: Wow, this is the 200th issue of Soul Treasures! When you first started KaleidoSoul Kindred Spirits, did you ever think you would actually create 200 issues of this weekly newsletter? Anne Marie: It is amazing, isn't it? I just told my husband I'm working on the 200th issue and he about fell off his chair! When I sent out the first issue almost four years ago, I really was only thinking month to month. 200 issues was just too much to even think about! Mary: What inspired you to create this newsletter? Anne Marie: Well, I got the idea for the Membership from Marney over at Artella. I was enjoying the Artella membership immensely, and I was thinking that there might be a need for a similar membership that focused mainly on SoulCollage®. Then I was thinking of what benefits I would like to give those who joined the Membership and immediately resonated with the idea of a weekly newsletter, to keep people inspired to stay in love with the practice of SoulCollage®. Mary: How did you think of the name, Soul Treasures? Anne Marie: For me, SoulCollage® allows us to access our own deepest inner treasures, and to appreciate the outer ones. So it was an easy name. It just came to me. Mary: How do you come up with ideas for 2-3 Inner Journeys columns every month? Anne Marie: You know, when I first began the Membership, and had done a few issues, and people were actually signing up to be members, I remember thinking "How on earth am I going to come up with stuff to write about month after month?" And my strong, wise inner guiding spirit replied immediately and unequivocally, "Just keep going. The ideas and inspiration will always be there for you. Trust." So I did. And the ideas are just always there. I have a word document on my computer where I save ideas and turn them into columns. Usually I am two or three columns ahead of the game! Mary: We all have our own favorite parts of Soul Treasures. What's yours? Anne Marie: Oh dear, I was afraid you were going to ask me that! Actually, I love sharing books I've found with our readers. And I equally love reading our Members' stories in the Soul Friends column. Mary: Do you actually read every book that you recommend in the Resources section? Anne Marie: If it's fiction, then yes, I absolutely have read it. If it's nonfiction, I've read about 60% of them. I just can't read them all! Some of them I find at the library or book store, and I always flip through them before writing a short review. Mary: How many Kindred Spirits were there at the beginning? And how many are there now? Anne Marie: In April of 2006, 7 people signed up when I first opened registration. And you can read a note from our very first member in the "Notes from members" section below. Today we have 310 Members, and counting! Mary: Is there anything new on the horizon for Kindred Spirit Members? Anne Marie: I'm so glad you asked that, Mary! Yes, during the first half of this year, I'll be working closely with Trisha Cupra on updating the entire KaleidoSoul website. We are actually creating the new official KaleidoSoul logo this month, which is very exciting for me. As part of the website makeover, Trisha will be creating a new Members' Site, and everyone will be able to create their own individual passwords...etc. Plus, there will be a new shopping cart system and I'll be able to send out coupons and more discounts. And there will be an affiliate system in place so that any SoulCollager who has a website and links back to KaleidoSoul will be able to share in the sales revenue from e-books and e-courses and everything else we sell. Mary: Thanks for chatting with me today, Anne Marie. I know our Members will enjoy learning more about you and the origins of our very special newsletter. Anne Marie: You're welcome, Mary! And I am going to have the last word here. Because I would like to thank YOU, so much, for all the help and support you've given me in the last 14 months since you've been our KaleidoSoul Virtual Assistant. And thank you to Kimee, as well, who takes my notes and words and images and creates beautiful newsletters for us, week after week, month after month. I honestly mean it when I say that I could not possibly be doing this without the two of you! A Message From the Very First Kindred Spirit Member
Editor's Note: Abundant thanks to each and every member who wrote in with
their comments and praises for Soul Treasures. Even though I couldn't print
everyone's words, I want you each to know that I read and internalized and
smiled over each and every thing you said.
I was JUST thinking about how grateful I am to be a member of this
community. The websites, music, books and "groups" you recommend are so
fascinating - just like a giant kaleidoscope for self-discovery, delight and
growth. --- Kara in Washington, Member since 2008
Resources shared:
Books: 624
Movies: 98 CD's: 121 quotes: 200
You can read any and all back issues of Soul Treasures here.
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Our Next Tele-Class Eye of the Hawk SoulCollage® Reading, with Mili Ballard SoulCollage® Facilitator and Facilitator Trainer in North Carolina  Mili will share a brief description of the transpersonal map of the psyche that includes the biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal levels of consciousness. Founded on the work of Stanislav Grof, transpersonal psychology purports that for sustainable healing to occur, all three levels of the psyche must be touched within the transformative process. Mili will guide us through an "Eye of the Hawk" reading that incorporates these concepts to potentially expand our awareness, consciousness, and personal healing/growth via our own SoulCollage® decks. Mili Ballard has been a SoulCollage® facilitator since May 2005 and a SoulCollage® facilitator trainer since February 2007. Mili is a training consultant within business and industry and also focuses on assisting individuals involved in their own processes of personal transformation. Mili and her life partner Johnny Dillard, also a trained SoulCollage® facilitator, co-lead "Just" Blank Cards, their private practice focusing on using the communicative power of images to enhance relationships with self and others. Please visit Mili's website, SoulCollager's Respite. Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Central, 5pm Mountain, 4pm Pacific, 2pm Hawaiian, Wednesday 12am in London, Wednesday 11:00am in Melbourne Australia and Wednesday 1pm in New Zealand
Save the date now. All of our tele-classes are FR*EE for members, always! And remember, don't worry if you can't attend... we'll be recording it and you can listen to it anytime in your Member's Only Audio Library. We will give you the phone number and access code to call in that week's issue of Soul Treasures. Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters: March 2010 - Demeter and Persephone Myth/the Mother-Daughter Archetypes, with mother-daughter team Cat and Darcy Meehan, SoulCollage® Facilitators in California. More details coming soon. April 2010 - Emperor/Empress Archetypes, with Lisa Abend, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Massachusetts. More details coming soon. May 2010 - Releasing Familial Myths with SoulCollage®, with Mirabai Joan Kolari, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California and Europe. June 2010 - SoulCollage® and the Recovery Connection with Nicky Ruxton, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. Discover how SoulCollage® fits in with The Twelve Steps. July 2010 - Using Astrology to Embrace Your SoulEssence, with Judith Goldberg, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Maryland. August 2010 - Community Suit: The Art of Relationships, with Karin Lubin and Randy Crutcher, lifetime partners and SoulCollage Facilitators in California. September 2010 - Living Through Breast Cancer with SoulCollage®, with Anne Marie Bennett, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Massachusetts and Win Griffin, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. October 2010 - Using SoulCollage® to Release Fear and Worry, with Anne Marie Bennett, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Massachusetts. We all have worries and fears. Try some simple activities with your Deck that will help you face them and let go. Creative Journey Game
Now Seeking New Travelers!  Save $20... MidWest SoulCollage® Facilitator Training April 23-25, 2010 in Minneapolis, Minnesota    Registration
is now
open for Anne Marie Bennett's next facilitator training, to be held at
Maureen Carlson's Center for Creative Arts in Jordan, Minnesota, about 20
miles southwest of the twin cities.This training will begin at 3 pm on Friday April 23 and end at 2 pm on Sunday April 25.
Register by January 31, and save $50
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Special
Gift for Members This Week
Rain Sumners
Notes
from Members
Soul
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