What is SoulCollage®? SoulCollage ® is an interactive and dynamic technique using collage-making to explore aspects of the self, life roles, important relationships with others, life patterns/themes, and the spiritual imagery/guides one uses to derive meaning from life experience. Collages made using the SoulCollage® process are small and of a uniform size, the purpose of this being that participants create a deck of collaged cards from “found” images—such as those taken from magazines, calendars, books, or personal photos.  Therefore, the process does not require artistic ability, though many artists and those with artistic tendencies are drawn to SoulCollage. There are four basic types, or “suits”, of collages used in the SoulCollage® process. An infinite number of collages of each of these suits can be made, so that with time an individual can create a whole collection of collages. This collection, or deck, can then be drawn from when there is an important life question or issue to consider. Therefore, the same collection of collages can be experienced in a new way each time a few are selected from a deck. Each time there will be new combinations, as well as new things to see in each collage. Individuals can make collages on their own or within a group setting. Within a group, collages are discussed and explored using role-playing and non-judgmental feedback. Those who create SoulCollage cards learn “speak from the image”, rather than about it, and to journal what they spoken from the imagery. This role-playing of the image is more active and alive than a detached description of what the picture is about. Whether created in solitude or within the group, the collages enable those who create them to develop a powerful visual and written record of the journey that is life! In a SoulCollage® group, members ask each other questions and give supportive feedback about the collages made. Group interaction enhances and deepens the experience of that which has been created and its meaning. The SoulCollage process is both uniquely personal but at the same time transcends individual experience. It is deeply spiritual work, yet a person of any faith tradition, philosophy, or spiritual background can use it. Making a SoulCollage is at once relaxing, fun, revealing, and an exercise in self-transformation—there is really nothing like it! |
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