Offerings
If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. - Natalie Goldberg
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. - Jean Shinoda Bolen
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. - Jean Shinoda Bolen
My offerings are an expression of my deep appreciation for the importance of creating structured time in one’s life for the pause and conscious reflection necessary for returning to our centers so that what we do in our lives and in the world emanates from who we deeply are…
My workshops are presented through Women Writing for (a) Change in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in other locations by arrangement.
Traditional offerings include:
To request more information or to be added to the list to receive notifications of upcoming programs, visit my contact page.
My workshops are presented through Women Writing for (a) Change in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in other locations by arrangement.
Traditional offerings include:
- Fall SoulCollage® Circle (six sessions over twelve weeks)
- Winter SoulCollage® Circle (six sessions over twelve weeks)
- Spring Open Studio Series (independent workshops inspired by the season)
- Workshops related to life themes and special events
- SoulCollage® and Self-Care for those in the Helping Professions
- Touch Drawing is offered periodically as a workshop intensive or as part of another program.
To request more information or to be added to the list to receive notifications of upcoming programs, visit my contact page.
Current Offerings:
Fall 2017 SoulCollage® Circle
Course Description:
Let’s explore through our card-making together what is present and emerging in our lives this year. We will draw inspiration from a variety of sources as well as the rhythm of the season we are in as we use the SoulCollage® process to explore our own emerging life themes.
We will also discover how our completed cards can serve as reflective partners to draw upon for inspiration, grounding, and guidance as we respond to life’s questions, opportunities and challenges.
SoulCollage® Circle is a gentle time and place in which to catch up to where you are in your life on a soul level.
Give yourself the gift of beginning this new season strengthening your connection to your deepest self while creating tools that can support you in your daily life.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time.
Course Details:
Time: 10:00 - 1:30
Dates (every other Friday): 9/08; 9/22; 10/06; 10/20; 11/03; 11/17
Cost: $179; High quality materials and tools provided, along with light snack.
Register: Registration is through the Women Writing for (a) Change website (Programs, Specialty Classes) or by following this course link.
SoulCollage® is a creative soul-tending practice in which you create, over time, a deck of collaged cards which are uniquely reflective of you. For those new to the process there will be a brief orientation once card-making begins.
Let’s explore through our card-making together what is present and emerging in our lives this year. We will draw inspiration from a variety of sources as well as the rhythm of the season we are in as we use the SoulCollage® process to explore our own emerging life themes.
We will also discover how our completed cards can serve as reflective partners to draw upon for inspiration, grounding, and guidance as we respond to life’s questions, opportunities and challenges.
SoulCollage® Circle is a gentle time and place in which to catch up to where you are in your life on a soul level.
Give yourself the gift of beginning this new season strengthening your connection to your deepest self while creating tools that can support you in your daily life.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time.
Course Details:
Time: 10:00 - 1:30
Dates (every other Friday): 9/08; 9/22; 10/06; 10/20; 11/03; 11/17
Cost: $179; High quality materials and tools provided, along with light snack.
Register: Registration is through the Women Writing for (a) Change website (Programs, Specialty Classes) or by following this course link.
SoulCollage® is a creative soul-tending practice in which you create, over time, a deck of collaged cards which are uniquely reflective of you. For those new to the process there will be a brief orientation once card-making begins.
What Can I Expect from a Workshop?
Some of the guiding principles for our time together include:
The format for the Fall SoulCollage® Circle and Winter SoulCollage® Circle includes the elements of opening and closing circle, safely-held card-making time, facilitated experiences, and the small group process of listening as witnesses and scribing one another’s words. An E-book on the elements of SoulCollage® as well as inspiration and resources related to our focus are included. Each session will greet you with an abundance of high quality materials and tools.
The Spring Open Studio is a series of individual workshops inspired by the energies of the spring season, and the elements generally include opening and closing circle, a grounding meditation, card-making time, and small group process.
SoulCollage® and Self-Care for those in the Helping Professions is designed specifically for helping professionals as a means of replenishing your energy and connecting to your authentic self as you bring balance to your life and work. SoulCollage® is an excellent way to keep your heart and mind clear so that you may be more fully present and available to others. SoulCollage® also offers opportunities to process work-related stress, providing a safe symbolic container for expressing experiences that are beyond words.Elements include opening and closing circle, card-making time, small group process, and techniques for using completed cards as self-referencing tools that can help you navigate the balance between self-care and caring for others.
- What is shared in the circle stays in the circle, and in our hearts.
- We all share in holding a circle of safety, free from judgment, advising, or problem-solving.
- We safeguard ourselves and honor our personal boundaries with regard to sharing and receiving.
- By risking visibility we create resonance and find common experience.
- We each have different ways of creating and rhythms, we won’t be travelling at the same speed or arriving at the same place at the same time; we work in a way that honors this.
The format for the Fall SoulCollage® Circle and Winter SoulCollage® Circle includes the elements of opening and closing circle, safely-held card-making time, facilitated experiences, and the small group process of listening as witnesses and scribing one another’s words. An E-book on the elements of SoulCollage® as well as inspiration and resources related to our focus are included. Each session will greet you with an abundance of high quality materials and tools.
The Spring Open Studio is a series of individual workshops inspired by the energies of the spring season, and the elements generally include opening and closing circle, a grounding meditation, card-making time, and small group process.
SoulCollage® and Self-Care for those in the Helping Professions is designed specifically for helping professionals as a means of replenishing your energy and connecting to your authentic self as you bring balance to your life and work. SoulCollage® is an excellent way to keep your heart and mind clear so that you may be more fully present and available to others. SoulCollage® also offers opportunities to process work-related stress, providing a safe symbolic container for expressing experiences that are beyond words.Elements include opening and closing circle, card-making time, small group process, and techniques for using completed cards as self-referencing tools that can help you navigate the balance between self-care and caring for others.
Recent/ Archived:
Winter SoulCollage® Circle: discovering the story of our Selves through the poetry of images
Course Description:
We will gather in an atmosphere of soul-spacious time as we discover how the images we are drawn to and the collaged cards we create evoke, contain, and translate the stories of our Selves into visual touchstones embedded with personal wisdom.
We will also explore a variety of ways to draw upon these personal touchstones for inspiration, grounding, and guidance in our lives.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time. For those new to the SoulCollage® process there will be a brief introductory how-to once card-making begins.
Course Details:
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Dates (every other Friday): 1/20; 2/3; 2/17; 3/3; 3/17; 3/31
Cost: $179 (high quality materials and tools provided as well as a light refreshment)
Register: Registration is through the Women Writing for (a) Change website (Programs, Specialty Classes) or by following this course link.
We will gather in an atmosphere of soul-spacious time as we discover how the images we are drawn to and the collaged cards we create evoke, contain, and translate the stories of our Selves into visual touchstones embedded with personal wisdom.
We will also explore a variety of ways to draw upon these personal touchstones for inspiration, grounding, and guidance in our lives.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time. For those new to the SoulCollage® process there will be a brief introductory how-to once card-making begins.
Course Details:
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Dates (every other Friday): 1/20; 2/3; 2/17; 3/3; 3/17; 3/31
Cost: $179 (high quality materials and tools provided as well as a light refreshment)
Register: Registration is through the Women Writing for (a) Change website (Programs, Specialty Classes) or by following this course link.
Fall 2016 SoulCollage® Circle: Weaving Our Personal Wisdom Cloaks
Gather and weave the threads of your soul’s evolving story into a personal wisdom cloak to wrap yourself in and draw upon for inspiration, grounding, and guidance this season.
Discover how the SoulCollage® process invites your soul’s innate healing and whole-making wisdom to come forth through the images you are drawn to work with and the collaged cards you create, and learn how your completed cards can continue to serve as a rich source of inner guidance to draw upon as you respond to life’s questions, opportunities and challenges.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time. For those new to the SoulCollage® process there will be a brief introductory how-to once card-making begins.
Course Details:
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Dates (every other Friday): 9/09; 9/23; 10/07; 10/21; 11/04; 11/18
Cost: $179 (high quality materials and tools provided as well as light refreshment)
Register: Register through Women Writing for (a) Change (Programs, Specialty Classes) or by following this course link.
Gather and weave the threads of your soul’s evolving story into a personal wisdom cloak to wrap yourself in and draw upon for inspiration, grounding, and guidance this season.
Discover how the SoulCollage® process invites your soul’s innate healing and whole-making wisdom to come forth through the images you are drawn to work with and the collaged cards you create, and learn how your completed cards can continue to serve as a rich source of inner guidance to draw upon as you respond to life’s questions, opportunities and challenges.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time. For those new to the SoulCollage® process there will be a brief introductory how-to once card-making begins.
Course Details:
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Dates (every other Friday): 9/09; 9/23; 10/07; 10/21; 11/04; 11/18
Cost: $179 (high quality materials and tools provided as well as light refreshment)
Register: Register through Women Writing for (a) Change (Programs, Specialty Classes) or by following this course link.
Winter SoulCollage® Circle: Connecting to your Energetic Wisdom through SoulCollage®
In this series we will explore how SoulCollage® can serve as a dynamic and practical tool to help you connect with the personally empowering wisdom held in each of your inner energy centers (chakras). Become an Energy Whisperer in your own life as you learn how your cards can support you in maintaining a balance of vital energy flowing in your life.
Time: 10:00 - 1:30
Dates (every other Friday): 1/22; 2/05; 2/19; 3/04; 3/18; 4/01
Cost: $179; High quality materials and tools provided, along with light snack.
Register: visit www.womenwriting.org (Programs, Specialty Classes)
In this series we will explore how SoulCollage® can serve as a dynamic and practical tool to help you connect with the personally empowering wisdom held in each of your inner energy centers (chakras). Become an Energy Whisperer in your own life as you learn how your cards can support you in maintaining a balance of vital energy flowing in your life.
Time: 10:00 - 1:30
Dates (every other Friday): 1/22; 2/05; 2/19; 3/04; 3/18; 4/01
Cost: $179; High quality materials and tools provided, along with light snack.
Register: visit www.womenwriting.org (Programs, Specialty Classes)
Fall SoulCollage® Circle: Becoming the Conscious Heroine of your Journey
In this series we will discover how the cards we create from images we are drawn to reflect back to us the journey we are in, hold the archetypal threads of our Larger Stories, and contain the inklings of our soul’s callings.
Learn how your SoulCollage® cards serve as personal guideposts that can be used again and again to inform and guide you as the conscious heroine of your unfolding story.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time.
Time: 10:00 - 1:30
Dates (every other Friday): 9/11/; 9/25; 10/09; 10/23; 11/06; 11/20
Cost: $179; High quality materials and tools provided, along with light refreshment.
Location: Women Writing for (a) Change, 6906 Plainfield Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236
Register: Click here for the course link
Or visit www.womenwriting.org (Programs, Specialty Classes)
In this series we will discover how the cards we create from images we are drawn to reflect back to us the journey we are in, hold the archetypal threads of our Larger Stories, and contain the inklings of our soul’s callings.
Learn how your SoulCollage® cards serve as personal guideposts that can be used again and again to inform and guide you as the conscious heroine of your unfolding story.
Whether SoulCollage® is already familiar to you or is calling to you as something new, this process will meet you exactly where you are each and every time.
Time: 10:00 - 1:30
Dates (every other Friday): 9/11/; 9/25; 10/09; 10/23; 11/06; 11/20
Cost: $179; High quality materials and tools provided, along with light refreshment.
Location: Women Writing for (a) Change, 6906 Plainfield Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236
Register: Click here for the course link
Or visit www.womenwriting.org (Programs, Specialty Classes)
Spring SoulCollage® Open Studio Series
Let’s explore through our card-making together what is present and emerging for us this spring.
Let the expansiveness of this series be a means of tending to your garden of emerging growth. Give yourself the gift of cultivating the seeds of your authentic self as you awaken to what is ready to bloom in you.
Each session will include inspirations for using your cards to discover and guide what is emergent for you this season.
Elements include opening and closing circle, guided meditation, card-making, and deepening your connections to your cards through sharing in triads, all held within the WWf(a)C traditions of safety and integrity.
Register for just one or for all three!
Dates (Fridays):
April 17: Emerging
May 1: Opening
May 29: Blooming
Time: 10:00 – 1:30
Let’s explore through our card-making together what is present and emerging for us this spring.
Let the expansiveness of this series be a means of tending to your garden of emerging growth. Give yourself the gift of cultivating the seeds of your authentic self as you awaken to what is ready to bloom in you.
Each session will include inspirations for using your cards to discover and guide what is emergent for you this season.
Elements include opening and closing circle, guided meditation, card-making, and deepening your connections to your cards through sharing in triads, all held within the WWf(a)C traditions of safety and integrity.
Register for just one or for all three!
Dates (Fridays):
April 17: Emerging
May 1: Opening
May 29: Blooming
Time: 10:00 – 1:30
Winter 2015 SoulCollage Circle: Creating our Personal Medicine Shields
In this series we will be using the SoulCollage® process to gather and integrate the gifts and lessons of the Four Directions into our uniquely personal Medicine Shields.
A Medicine Shield is a visual expression of the unique qualities, truths, and sacred intentions you are carrying; it is a tool to draw upon for guidance and a means of sharing your journey with others.
In this series we will be using the SoulCollage® process to gather and integrate the gifts and lessons of the Four Directions into our uniquely personal Medicine Shields.
A Medicine Shield is a visual expression of the unique qualities, truths, and sacred intentions you are carrying; it is a tool to draw upon for guidance and a means of sharing your journey with others.
- Time: 10:00 - 1:30
- Dates (every other Friday): 1/16; 1/30; 2/13; 2/27; 3/13; 3/27
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change, 6906 Plainfield Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236
Fall 2014 SoulCollage® Circle: Weaving Our Personal Wisdom Cloaks
We will take inspiration from the modern mythology of The Queen’s Cloak (Joan Engelsman) as we use the SoulCollage® process to gather and weave the threads of our authentic selves into a ‘personal wisdom cloak’.
Together we will discover how our cards serve as a rich source of wisdom to draw upon as we respond to life’s questions, opportunities and challenges.
We will also explore how the structure of the SoulCollage® deck can help us tap into our unique archetypal and instinctual warp threads as rich sources of energy in our lives.
- Time: 10:00 - 1:30
- Dates (every other Friday): 8/29; 9/12; 9/2610/10; 10/24; 11/7/ 2014
- Location: Women Writing for (a) Change, 6906 Plainfield Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236