with Anne Marie Bennett + 7 Guest Facilitators
Originally offered January – August 2021
7 Three-Hour
Video Classes
+ One Very Special
Bonus Video Class
Connect to Earth energy and the wisdom of Nature.
Expand your SoulCollage® deck.
Feel a part of the international SoulCollage® community.
Get some good ideas for workshops if you’re a Facilitator.
This online SoulCollage Celebration Series is for you if . . .
… you are curious about the Native American Medicine Wheel and how it might apply to your life
… you want to feel more connected to Nature and the seasons of your life
… you would like to embody and embrace more wholeness in your life
… you are open to understanding how the Medicine Wheel relates to the four suits and Transpersonal cards of the SoulCollage® deck
As SoulCollage® Facilitators, we are all committed
to honoring our Native American elders and ancestors
as we share the Medicine Wheel’s wisdom and lessons
in a manner that is culturally appropriate and respectful.
~ Anne Marie, Kat, Linda, Kellie, Alexa, Michaela, Norma, & Christina
In this unique online video workshop series, you will:
* dive right into the experience of the Medicine Wheel
* feel more connected to Mother Earth and the rhythm of the seasons
* receive several ideas and instructions for creating your own representation of the Medicine Wheel that will journey with you throughout the series
* learn about and experience the Native American Medicine Wheel using left and right brain modalities
* understand the importance of the Five Directions (East, South, West, North, and Center) as well as the Cross Quarter Directions (Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast)
* enjoy a space to explore your own life’s journey within the Sacred Circle of the Medicine Wheel
* add some new SoulCollage® cards to your deck
* enter into dialogue with selected Animal Companions and Council Neters
* learn how we can all intentionally honor and work with the Medicine Wheel in order to enrich, broaden, and deepen our own beautiful, authentic, creative lives
The Medicine Wheel is an important tool for these times.
By learning about the wheel, we learn about the universe.
Through traveling around the wheel,
we bring life-giving changes into our own lives
and into the world.
~ Sun Bear, author of Dancing with the Wheel
What you’ll receive:
* SEVEN 3-HOUR VIDEO CLASS RECORDINGS with Anne Marie Bennett + SEVEN guest Facilitators who have all used the wisdom of the Divine Feminine in their SoulCollage® practice and workshops.
* One BONUS 3-HOUR VIDEO CLASS RECORDING with Jennifer Mantle on the West African Ocean Goddess Yemanja
* An abundance of handouts and resources that were shared during each class
* All videos, handouts, and resources are yours to access as a valuable resource for years to come.
* 4 sets of inspiring “Sunday Soul Suggestions” for each class. These are intended to help keep you focused on the current goddess, including suggested resources, SoulCollage® activities, and more
*During each class, our guest Facilitator introduces various ways of understanding and working with the featured Direction of the Wheel, and we’ll be doing this work together.
* During our video classes, we spend a lot of our time actually EXPERIENCING THE TEACHINGS OF THE MEDICINE WHEEL. That’s right, we don’t simply TALK about it, we actually EXPERIENCE it! So be sure to bring a well-loved journal and comfortable pen with you, along with your open heart and mind.
* Informative and visual left-brain teaching presentations, as well as right-brain guided imagery experiences, journaling, movement, ceremony, story, poetry, readings, and the SoulCollage® process form the basis of of our inner explorations in these classes (not necessarily in that order!).
* A private place online to post your cards and/or inner discoveries throughout this journey
* Generous email support from Anne Marie Bennett
The Medicine Wheel is a circular symbol representing the wholeness of traditional Native life. It represents constant movement and change. It is a testimony of the human being’s ability to survive and to maintain balance…
The circular form of the Medicine Wheel shows the relationship of all things in a unity, a perfect form, and suggests the cyclical nature of all relationships and interactions. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole.
~ The Ontario Native Literacy Coalition
Basic outline of each 3-hour video workshop:
First 75 minutes
* Welcome, Opening the Circle (Anne Marie)
* Opening presentation on the month’s topic (guest facilitator)
Next 90 minutes
* Deeper presentation on the monthly topic
* Questions and large group sharing throughout
Last 15 minutes
* Welcome back and large group sharing
* Suggestions for further exploration of this month’s topic
* Closing the Circle (short ceremony)
Class 1
Medicine Wheel: Overview
+ Make Your Own
with Anne Marie Bennett & Kat Kirby
Kat Kirby trained as a SoulCollage® Facilitator with Seena Frost in 2006, and was a Facilitator Trainer from 2007-2020. Since the early 1970s, she has been a believer in the healing power of the arts and creative self-expression. Offering a variety of workshops such as creating art journals, mosaics, SoulCollage®, handmade books, Mixed Media arts, watercolors and doodles, and more, Kat enjoys exploring and experimenting with art materials.
She has been researching several different ways to create our own Medicine Wheels and you’ll have different options to choose from, if you want to make your own. When Kat teaches, whether it be virtual or in person, her two rules are: 1) You can’t be wrong, and 2) Have fun! Her website is here.
Class 2
Medicine Wheel Direction: EAST
with Anne Marie Bennett & Linda Dean Farrar
Linda Dean Farrar received SoulCollage® Facilitator Training from Anne Marie Bennett in 2014. Her background is eclectic including more than 35 years in human services, 27 of which was as a director of a family resource center in southern Vermont while also maintaining a part-time private practice including community development, Reiki Master Teacher, and Shamanic Practitioner Teacher. She describes herself as having been blessed with the opportunity for her mainstream work in human services to inform her private practice and for her private practice to inform and influence her daily work with staff, families and partners at the local and state level.Class 3
Medicine Wheel Direction: SOUTH
with Anne Marie Bennett & Kellie McComb
Kellie McComb lives in Canada and was introduced to SoulCollage® ten years ago. In 2016 she became a SoulCollage® Facilitator with Mariabruna Sirabella and in 2018 became a Facilitator Trainer.
As a Spiritual Director, Kellie integrates SoulCollage® into her individual and group processing with people. She has a holistic approach and loves seeing how the creative, intuitive and spiritual life comes alive through SoulCollage®. Kellie has been researching her Celtic roots and continues to learn about the the sacred healing circle of the Celtic Medicine Wheel.
Class 4
Medicine Wheel Direction: WEST
with Anne Marie Bennett & Alexa Singer-Telles
Alexa Singer-Telles, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, received transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh as a dharma teacher in the tradition of Plum Village in 2014. She offers creative mindfulness retreats up and down the west coast and Canada. She trained as a SoulCollage® Facilitator in 2008 with Mariabruna Sirabella. She has led workshops at several SoulCollage® conferences including one in Italy. Alexa weaves together movement, writing, and ritual to crystalize the wisdom that speaks in our SoulCollage® cards. She claims the poets are her spiritual guides.
Her understanding of the medicine wheel comes from the teachings of Angeles Arrien and through her ceremonial leadership in women’s circles for more than thirty years. She weaves many creative threads together to offer sacred space for women to explore their own creativity and listen to their own inner guidance. Her passion is to “bring the beauty of spirit into form.”
Class 5
Medicine Wheel Direction: NORTH
with Anne Marie Bennett & Michaela Daystar
Michaela Daystar– After eleven years serving as the Director of the Institute for Civic Leadership at Mills College, Michaela launched her own business, HeartScapes, teaching and consulting with non-profits, universities, government agencies and individuals. Understanding that leadership is best practiced from the inside out, she is drawn to methods that uncover our innate wisdom and creative nature. Michaela trained as a SoulCollage® Facilitator in 2013 with Seena Frost, and since then has brought SoulCollage® into myriad spaces—from college classrooms, to government agencies.Class 6
Medicine Wheel Direction: CENTER
with Anne Marie Bennett & Norma Budinski
Norma Budinski is a Meditation Teacher, Harpist, Reiki Master, Sound Healer, SoulCollage® Facilitator and mentor for soulful living from Melbourne, Australia. She first discovered the wonderful process of SoulCollage® in 2007 and completed her Facilitator Training with Karen Mann in July 2009. Since that time, she has been facilitating SoulCollage® workshops on a monthly basis and is always in awe of the magical process and soulful insights that emerge.
Norma loves to draw upon ancient wisdom and spirituality. She sees the need for restoring balance and meaning to stressed, busy, contemporary lifestyles by reconnecting to our sacred relationship with Mother Earth. This pathway has led her to offer many seasonal women’s circles and SoulCollage® Medicine Wheel Readings as a powerful tool for wholeness. Her website is Harp to Heart Healing.
Class 7
Medicine Wheel Directions: Cross-Quarters (NE, SE, SW, NW)
with Anne Marie Bennett & Christina MacLeod
Christina MacLeod’s passion and dedication to healing offer a unique path influenced by both ancient and contemporary traditions and practices as keys to transformation and wholeness, to enhance creative expression, self-empowerment, and resilience in a complex and ever-changing world. Nature-based ceremonies and practices integrating contemplative and expressive arts ground and expand our unique connection with the Web of Life.
Christina has studied and practiced the medicine ways of the White Mountain Apache Moonwalker lineage for over 20 years, having achieved the status of Sacred Pipe Carrier in 2000. She continues her studies with a variety of master teachers in deep exploration of the Sacred Wheel, ancient Celtic and early Indo-European mythic traditions, and their application in transpersonal process. She became a SoulCollage ® facilitator under the guidance of Mariabruna Sirabella in 2015, an ordained Interfaith Peace Minister in 2015, and a Creative Depth Coach with Cat Caracelo through JOURNEYpath™ Institute in 2017. In 2020, Christina completed her facilitator training in Journal to the Self®. Christina currently lives in the mountains of Colorado with her canine companion Cedar.
Her website is Christina MacLeod.
BONUS CLASS
Medicine Wheel 4-Card SoulCollage® Reading
with Anne Marie Bennett
Anne Marie Bennett has been a SoulCollage® Facilitator for 19 years, and was a Trainer of Facilitators from 2007-2019. Her full bio is here.
What SoulCollagers
Are Saying About
Our KaleidoSoul Video
Celebrations Series:
NOTE: These were responses from the anonymous survey we sent at the conclusion of The Great Big SoulCollage Chakra Extravaganza of 2020, so no names/locations are included.
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 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 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.
Let the medicine of the sacred circle prevail.
Let many people across the land come to this circle
and make prayers for the healing of the Earth Mother.
Let the circles of the Medicine Wheel come back.
~ Sun Bear, author of Dancing with the Wheel
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