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Training commences

 This morning, my cohort for our SoulCollage® facilitator training will gather (virtually) for our Orientation. It's exciting to be on the brink of a new adventure!

Over a decade ago, my friend Inga and I took a day long workshop, to meet and paint our Creative Muses. Our teacher was in Color of Woman teacher training, one requirement was offering a workshop.

Good Medicine -2025

The questions Elisabeth invited us to consider, in peraration for the workshop, are also appropriate for my upcoming journey to become a SoulCollage® Facilitator.  

Gabriella - Muse of Creativity 2014

  • which areas in your life have benefited and been enhanced by your acts of creativity?
  • where are you maybe holding back from expressing yourself?
  • when do you feel most in alignment with your soul and spirit;?
  • has your creative fire been nudging/calling you to show up for yourself and/or your community this year in new ways or directions? 
  • what questions might you like to ask your Creative Muse, when you encounter her?
Desert Rose - (Committee) Igniting creativity 
After that early February workshop, I "painted up a storm," and the following winter, enrolled in the Color of Woman training myself, graduating in the fall of 2015. 
Over the next 5 years, I offered monthly circles and taught a number of workshops. In 2020 I pivoted to virtual circles, and have supported/ co-facilitated a few painting classes 

A decade later, I still love painting, but find it  a less accessible medium than collage, and many students question their access to 'creativity,' when handed paints and a brush! (And - it's way easier to store - and invite insights from - a stack of cards than a pile of paintings!)

This month, I invite the Neters of the four suits to support me on this next phase of my creative journey!

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