Come nurture your soul in a relaxing and creative journey of self-discovery. Learn how you might complete the sentence “I am one who…”
Winter/Spring 2024-2025 SoulCollage® at UUFR with Facilitator Doreen Clark
Each month and each session is a “stand-alone”; sign up for as many or few as you want!
Email here to sign up. Indicate which session(s) you are signing up for and on which date(s). You can sign up for just one month’s session(s) or you can sign up for more at any time. For example, you can sign up for just one or more September sessions now and sign up for another month’s session(s) later.
All sessions take place in Founders Hall.
Stand-alone sessions for each month:
Session 1: Thursday: Making SoulCollage® Cards, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Session 2: Thursday: Communing with our SoulCollage® Cards, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Session 3: Thursday: Making SoulCollage® Cards, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Sessions 1, 2 and 3 take place on Thursdays: 12/12, 1/9, 2/13, 3/13, 4/10 and 5/15.
Note: Thursday sessions are preceded by an optional “30-minute schmooze”; come up to 30 minutes early to meet and greet new friends and old, get a snack, and settle in.
What is SoulCollage® and how should I decide which session(s) to sign up for?
SoulCollage® (an “expressive art”) is a process that brings together images, imagination and intuition to help you discover and explore your “inner self.” Created by psychotherapist Seena Frost, M.A., M.Div., it is fun and playful. At the same time, it often yields profound insights. No special skill or artistic experience is required. You do not need to “be an artist”! SoulCollage® meets you wherever you are in your life’s journey. Using images from magazines and other sources, you create your very own 5”x 8” SoulCollage® cards (Making SoulCollage® Cards sessions) and then you use them, via oral and written prompts, to gain insight and self-knowledge (Communing with our SoulCollage® Cards sessions). All materials are supplied and there is no charge or materials fee for these workshops.
If you are new to SoulCollage®, I recommend that you start with a Making SoulCollage® Cards session. I also recommend that you watch the following (20-minute) video before attending the session:
There is also a shorter (6-minute) video by the creator of SoulCollage® (but it doesn’t cover as much about the SoulCollage® process):
Seena Frost’s video about SoulCollage®️ and how to make a card (Invitation to SoulCollage®️)
To learn even more about SoulCollage®️ before you sign up, you can take a look at the SoulCollage®️ website.
What to expect: Making SoulCollage® Cards sessions:
These sessions are either two hours long (Session A, Wed) or three hours long (Sessions B and D, Thurs) and will focus almost entirely on making SoulCollage® cards. We will get into the meditative flow of choosing images (with some lovely background music) and then composing our cards. We will do a very brief introduction of ourselves at the start of the session by quickly choosing a single image, projecting ourselves into that image and then sharing via the image’s voice as we say, “I am one who…” Then we will spend lots of time just looking for images and collaging. [There will be an optional journaling sheet for part of the time for anyone who would like to do this.] Finally, we will close the session by sharing our finished cards with a “gallery walk” and sharing our IAOWs (“I am one who…”s) (which are described in the above videos). If you are attending for the first time I will introduce you to the materials and show you how to use them to make your first card!
What to expect: Communing with our SoulCollage® Cards sessions:
These sessions are 90 minutes long and will focus on interacting with our cards (mostly by completing written prompts and “card games”) and sharing the wisdom we gain with each other. This can include the basic level of having a conversation with our cards and asking them to answer the question: Who are you? We can also pose more specific questions to our cards about issues that have meaning for us such as: How can I deepen my spiritual life? How can I become more playful? How can I manage difficult emotions? We can call on cards from the different SoulCollage® suits: Committee (inner personality parts), Community (beings that impact our personal stories such as family, friends, teachers, ancestors, pets, role models, places), Companion (personal animal totems) and Council (archetypes that are part of the larger story such as the Fool, the Seeker, the Warrior, the Teacher, Death, Mother Earth, the Crone, the Healer, the Lightbearer, etc.). We can even have our cards speak to each other! These sessions are primarily geared to folks that have already made one or more SoulCollage® cards — and you should bring either all of your cards or a good assortment of them with you. However, you are still welcome to attend if you haven’t made an actual SoulCollage® card yet; I will offer some of my own cards that you can choose to “borrow” for the session OR you can make “placeholder” cards: index cards with the name of an entity that you would like to dialogue with, such as “My Inner Critic” or “Mother Earth,” for example.
Some background on SoulCollage® at UUFR and additional information:
Since starting SoulCollage® workshops at UUFR in March of 2024, almost 70 people ranging in age from HS-age to over 80 have taken part in one or more of the 21 sessions conducted from March through December! Total attendance over the nine months was 129 people, since many people have attended more than one session. As detailed above, there are 24 more sessions scheduled to take place between December and May. I hope you will join us to enjoy SoulCollage® either as a wonderful “one off” experience or, as others have discovered, as an ongoing practice.
In addition to continuing SoulCollage® workshops each month, I hope to eventually add other expressive arts offerings such as Sacred Weaving, Vision Boards, Meditative Coloring, Altered Books and/or Homemade Bookmaking. If you would like to be contacted directly for all such future workshops (both for ongoing SoulCollage® workshops and for any potential other expressive arts workshops), please email me here and ask to be added to my “SoulCollage® and other Expressive Arts Workshops” email list.
About Doreen Clark, workshop leader: Doreen became a licensed SoulCollage® Facilitator in 2013, trained by Catherine Anderson. Before joining UUFR in 2023, Doreen actively participated in the Jewish and interfaith communities in the Raleigh NC area for over 30 years including facilitating monthly SoulCollage® workshops for Yavneh Jewish Renewal Community. She has led large- and small-group SoulCollage® workshops for other organizations and individuals as well. Doreen is a former adult ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher, pediatric speech-language pathologist, art gift basket business owner, interfaith newsletter publisher, market researcher, preschool librarian and storyteller, and day camp counselor. She is married to UUFR’s own Lewis Copulsky with whom she shares two adult sons.
