Expressive Art Workshops Presents:
Collage For Self-Discovery E-Course - Part One
This is a course in authentic, creative self-expression. It offers a deepening method of daily, reflective collage for opening up your creative heart. Whether you view yourself as creative or not, if you feel caught up in outer distractions and distant from your true self and feelings, if you want to use creativity to deepen your self-awareness and cultivate a more solid and joyful connection to your inner, authentic self, this is the course for you.
What is Spontaneous Collage?
See Intuitive Collage Lesson here
The Spontaneous Collage Journal
The aim of this collage journal class is to awaken spontaneity, curiosity, and creative freedom, and your connection to your unlimited self.
If you feel stuck repeating the same patterns over and over in your life, this method of journaling will help you to open up to fresh insights that will invite more joy and flow into your life. The spontaneous collage process that we will explore in our journals is a tool for awareness, found delights and wider possibilities.
Collage is accessible to everyone. No previous art experience or special talent is required.
Collage is
a satisfying sort of play because it allows a colorful, immediately
apparent result that encourages further exploration and curiosity. It
becomes a daily showing up on the page with a most wondrous question,“Who am I today?”
Over time, small and large mysteries are revealed. We see what we love
and what we hide about ourselves. Sometimes gently and sometimes with
exasperation we begin to see what works and what does not work in our
lives. How do we reveal ourselves to ourselves? Truth has a way of
finding us if we get out of our own way.
The Journey
Discovery 1- Starting Out- (See Discovery 1 here)
- Finding what is Vivid
- Seeing in Pictures
- Beginnings
- Reclaiming Wholeness
- Gathering Materials
- Finding Images
Discovery 2 - Tender Beginnings
- The Longing to Express
- Planned Creativity
- Unplanned Creativity
- Discovery 2-Discovering Play
- Spontaneous Magazine Collage
- Daily Practice-Cultivating Loose Play
- Owning your Collage
- A Visual Meditation
Discovery 3 - Noticing Your Life
- Awareness
- Savoring the Details
- Discovery 3- Making Room for Surprise
- Daily Practice-Cultivating a Quieting Ritual
- Creating From Stillness
- Allowing Yourself to Not Know
- Contemplating your Collage
Discovery 4 - Finding Your True Self
- Inheriting an Unlived Life
- Our True Nature is Evident Even in Infancy
- Who Do You Think You Should Be?
- Discovery 4-Uncovering the "Shoulds"
- Daily Practice-Sensing the Energy of Imagery
- Discerning Truth From Appearances
- Gentle Self-Awareness
Discovery 5 - Opening to Feeling
- How Much Can I Accept?
- Resisting Feelings
- The Trap of I Want a Joyful Collage
- Discovery 5- Allowing Everything
- A Personal Example
- Daily Practice-Feeling to Completion
Discovery 6- The Art of Relaxation
- The Quest for Self-Esteem
- The Trap of "I Am Not Enough As I Am
- The Myth of Self-Improvement
- Letting Go of Rigid Goals
- Discovery 8 - Exploring Your Idealized Goals
- Daily Practice - Setting Authentic Goals
- Trusting Life To Unfold
Cost for Part 1
For information on how to start the course feel free to contact me at:
shelley@collageforself-discovery.com
I also invite you to visit my Website @
www.expressiveartworkshops.com
Collage For Self-Discovery E-Course- Part Two
The second part of this course invites you to dive deeper into profound self-acceptance, deeper self-honesty and authentic joy. As we let go of our stories of what is wrong with us, we learn to love our life as it is creatively unfolding in each moment.
Discovery 7 - Authentic Expression
- Depression is the Repression of Anger
- Your Feelings Are Your Truth
- Making a Commitment to Strength
- Stretching Into New Territory
- Discovery 7 - Expressing Anger
- Bypassing Victim Consciousness
- Daily Practice - Radical Self-Honesty
Discovery 8 - Recognizing Your Mask
- An Undistorted View
- Looking For Approval
- Hiding Shame
- The Pain Below the Mask
- Discovery 8 - Exploring Your Compensating Behaviors
- Opening to Everything
- Daily Practice-Sustaining Openness
Discovery 9 - True Abundance
- Learning to Love Life
- Embracing the Good
- Present Moment Creativity
- Discovery 9 - Daily Delights
- Starting Simply
- Daily Practice - Seeing Themes and Patterns
- Indulging Possibilities
Discovery 10 - Unlimited Possibilities
- Living in Possibility
- Facing Your Fear of Greatness
- Letting Go of Your Story
- Discovery 10 - Distractions from Anxiety
- Daily Practice - Exploring Your Limited Thoughts
- Embracing Uncertainty
Discovery 11 - Passionate Self-Expression
- Alter Ego
- Family Roles
- The Silence of Niceness
- Learning to Say No
- Moving Into the World Authentically
- Sexuality and Creativity
- Discovery 11 - Exploring the Forbidden
- Daily Practice - Cultivating Core Connection
Discovery 12 - Essence Self
- Spiritual Vision
- Releasing Suppressed Energies
- No Urgency
- Remembering the Body
- The Masculine and Feminine Sides of Creation
- Discovery 12 - The Next Step
- Daily Practice - Deepening Into Acute Interest
- Living in the Body
Cost for Part 2
- $60 Includes e-mail support as needed. You will receive each class in your e-mail box for six consecutive weeks starting on the day you pay.
Part1 is a prerequisite for Part 2. If you would like to continue on your journey contact me at:
shelley@collageforself-discovery.com
I also invite you to visit my Website @
www.expressiveartworkshops.com
The Experience of Collage for Self-Discovery
I cannot express how profound it feels to have discovered a method of creative opening deep within my own life experience and then to have such diverse women share their own collage dreams, visions and intuitions. If you are considering whether this journey is right for you...I offer you these voices. When you sign up for the course you will be invited onto a visual group site where you will receive support for your journey. We share our daily collages, our insights and our freshly whispered authentic voices. We are a rich and burgeoning, compassionate creative community and you are welcome to be a part of it.
Finding Plum is tenderly written human portrait of one woman who has taken the course, and in her blog she with the utmost of honesty and compassion for herself embarks on the healing journey of spontaneous creativity though a daily collage journal.
More Voices of Those on the Journey
“One of the things I love the most about all of this is your stories as you present the pages for each week. You speak so openly about your life and with so much heart that it is impossible not to be inspired to let my own understanding come forth… I realize that I hold the key to my own success and even though it's great to have outside inspiration or praise or encouragement, being inspired from the inside is worth everything...”
"I cannot believe what an incredible gift you have given me through this
collage e-course. You are just so gifted and a true healer. I am so
ecstatic that you have given me this opportunity to heal and learn about
myself through your course…."
“I have made my first collage after reading the information on your site. It has taken about 2 to 3 hours to do but for once I have allowed myself to play. Something I don't often do because I'm always worrying about making ends meet and will avoid doing anything that is not going to bring in an income. So silly! In the past I have put too much thought into my collages, didn't often complete them (and didn't enjoy doing them because I was over-thinking and tying myself up in knots) but this time for the first time ever I worked intuitively. Absolutely mind boggling...”
A Letter From My Editor
