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Highlights of this issue:
 Quotation of the Week
Surely the greatest work of art any of us can ever create is our own soul. In the slow, delicate layering, there are necessary places of waiting, incubation, and integration. Within these things lies the holiness of nondoing.
--- Sue Monk Kidd Soul Friends The Voice of a Different Kindred Spirit Each Week  Win Griffin Pasadena, California Recently I have been thinking about the discoveries that have been announced in my lifetime (I'm 73 years old). One of them is the new archaeological site in Brazil. It has been photographed by satellite and brings incredible information about an ancient civilization we never knew existed before now. Plumbing the depths of my unconscious through the creative expression of SoulCollage® has allowed me the discovery of 'a whole new civilization' within me that I have not known existed. It's bigger than a village, for sure! It felt that way when I attended The Three Faces of Silence workshop weekend with Seena Frost and Mariabruna Sirabella at Pine Manor in January 2007 here in California. Initially, not being an artist, I felt somewhat intimidated. I was determined, though, to turn off my left brain and my critical self. I dove into making my Source Card (see below), not knowing 'what I was doing.' "Just let it be" was my mantra. What evolved was incredible. I was awed. I still am. What my Source card speaks to is the richness of my spiritual journey. I feel wealthy. Although all the spiritual expressions I have embraced have been powerfully different, each has held such wisdom when they have 'arrived at my door'. Through all my life experiences I can look back and see how I have been held. I have never been alone. I have walked on my path; I have traveled on the great river of life - always with Source as my guide, my inspiration and my companion even in the times when I was not aware, or did not recognize Presence. I had years of psychotherapy, including Psychoanalysis for which I am grateful to great therapists: David, Mike, Rose and Jim. Despite the plumbing of my depths through therapy, SoulCollage® has held a beacon out to me for more integration, for more joy in discovery, for more healing and laughter. The process enables me to embrace my creative self (my Aunt Grace, the artist in the family, is rejoicing, I'm sure). I am just now, January 2010, giving up my beloved 'home away from home' - my office of 36 years. I am starting a new chapter that will be steeped in giving SoulCollage® workshops and private sessions. I look forward to continuing growth with my Source ...... oh, yes, and joy with my dear year old Welch Pembroke Corgi, Uncle Louis, who just now is teaching me to walk in the rain, 'Just Singin' in the Rain'. Peace and blessings to you all. Win  Remembering to Pray and Breathe Committee Suit I am the one who recognizes the importance of the spiritual in my life. I am the one who breaks out of every shell into newness of life. I am the one who needs to breathe and to meditate. I am the one who, out of the darkest dark, and dead wood, looks to the Fall of life to spring forth in joy toward the Light.  Source Card Note: the river (left lower corner), path (right upper corner); my own archaeological dig and stitches always toward Love (upper left corner); and of course, The Light. The Scarab stands for resurrection. I have experienced many necessary deaths and resurrections of all sorts. I am thankful for each one.
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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 Meehan and Darcy Meehan, SoulCollage® Facilitators in California. Explore the complex dynamics found in the myth of Demeter and Persephone. Experience using an archetype to explore your deep self and various perspectives, emotions and states. The interchangeable roles of mother and daughter (such as Persephone as the innocent maiden/child and Demeter as the Stone Mother) will be discussed using SoulCollage® examples and personal reflection. A guided meditation will be shared, with plenty of time for questions and sharing. Cat and Darcy are both transformative artists using and teaching SoulCollage® as one method of art for healing. Revisioning Life April 2010 - Emperor/Empress Archetypes, with Lisa Abend, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Massachusetts. Make your April less "taxing" and more fun! In this intriguing tele-class, you'll meet your inner King and Queen (Council Suit), and discover more about how to begin projects you love. You'll be guided through two inner journeys to safely meet the Emperor archetype, also known as Aries, the Hero or the Initiator; AND the Empress archetype, also known as Venus, the Goddess of Love, or She Who Helps Manifest. We'll begin with a short lecture on these two important archetypes. Then Lisa will share some tips for working with these powerful figures. After the guided meditations, there will be time for sharing as well as questions-and-answers. 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. 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.
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SoulCollage®
Expressions
, by Randy Granger. Recorded with hand-crafted flutes, guitar and steel hand drum. Inspired by the beautiful, quiet deserts of New Mexico.
, by Sara Maitland. She talks about her decision to live alone
in a small cottage in the Scottish Highlands, in search of silence. She also
describes her experience of spending six weeks alone in a remote cottage on the
Isle of Skye, by way of describing some of the experiences common to those who
embrace long periods of silence.
