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Week 5 Healing Collage - Animated
Quote: Animated
"Life is a lively process of becoming."
~ Douglas MacArthur
Poem: Animated
A lively process of becoming.
I am.
A Year of Healing Collage
Join me for a year of Healing Collage!
Expressive Arts Exercise
To deepen into the word of the week, choose a quote, that for you, emotionally reflects the word.
To anchor the healing power of your weekly collage, write a short spontaneous poem that personally reflects your collage and chosen quote.
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Many of us get arrested at various ages and stay stuck in a developmental stage that could have us feeling like a child in our 20's or a teenager in our 40's or a young adult in our 60's.
This is because, during each stage in your lifespan, it is possible to have a psychosocial crisis that could have a negative outcome for your personality development.
A psychosocial crisis involves a conflict between your psychological needs (psycho) with the needs of society (social). At each stage, there is a crisis or a task that you need to resolve.
To see where your developmental impasses are, I welcome you to take a look at this article on my Depth Therapy Blog that details all the stages of human development.
When you can identify an unhealed personality part's age, you will better be able to see what kind of emotional healing work you need to do in order to progress in your life.
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Week 4: Healing Collage - Romantic
Quote: Romance
“If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.”
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Poem: Romance
I love you.
and myself. We are equal.
A Year of Healing Collage
Join me for a year of Healing Collage!
Expressive Arts Exercise
To deepen into the word of the week, choose a quote, that for you, emotionally reflects the word.
To anchor the healing power of your weekly collage, write a short spontaneous poem that personally reflects your collage and chosen quote.
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The more expressive art I create, the more I think and dream in pictures.
When I began creating spontaneous art over 20 years ago, I had to study the language of my creative unconscious as if it was a foreign language. I would mull over what the symbols in my collages meant - often for many months.
Now, when a picture spontaneously comes into my mind or into my field of vision, I almost always know what it means for me.
I love to study dream interpretation as a doorway into the creative unconscious. I see spontaneous collage as a way to dream while I am awake.
You might ask yourself, " Do I want to study my own symbolism?" If the answer is "yes" you will enjoy this month's featured course.
Course Spotlight - Symbolic Journeys
I wrote this course because people confide that they do not know how to "read" their art on an intuitive level. In my opinion, it is best to write your own symbol dictionary in order to understand what your expressive art imagery means to you.
In Symbolic Journeys, I offer 45 lessons that invite you to explore your personal response to common symbols through poetry, collage, writing, drawing and painting. You could think of this as a way to begin your own symbology dictionary. And, this course is also great for children and teens. You can view the course HERE.
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Week 3 Healing Collage - Tender
Quote: Tender
"The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously."
~ Jack Kornfield
Poem: Tender
Simple.
The spontaneous tenderness of my heart.
Brings such emotional wisdom.
A Year of Healing Collage
Join me for a year of Healing Collage!
For this challenge, I invite you to do this companion expressive arts exercise to deepen and anchor the healing power of your weekly collage.
Expressive Arts Exercise
To deepen into the word of the week, choose a quote, that for you, emotionally reflects the word.
To anchor the healing power of your weekly collage, write a short spontaneous poem that personally reflects your collage and chosen quote.
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If you regularly create expressive art to further your creative freedom and emotional wellness, you might be considering facilitating the expressive arts for other people at some point in your journey.
I am a REACE (Registered Expressive Art Consultant and Educator) with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and I am an avid encourager of Expressive Arts Facilitators!
Having facilitated expressive art and writing for many different populations for many years, I now guide a free Facebook peer support group for Expressive Arts Facilitators at all stages of practice.
This peer learning group is for expressive arts facilitators of all backgrounds and experiences. I warmly invite arts facilitators to share knowledge and experiences in a way that is encouraging and inclusive.
Join us HERE!
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Week 2 Healing Collage - Friendly
Quote: Friendly
“Do I want the present moment to be my friend or my enemy?" ....Become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly toward you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative....But that one decision you have to make again and again and again - until it becomes natural to live in such a way.”
― Eckhart Tolle
Poem:
Play with life. Just as it is. Today.
Friendly within and without.
A Year of Healing Collage
Join me for a year of Healing Collage!
For this challenge, I invite you to do this companion expressive arts exercise to deepen and anchor the healing power of your weekly collage.
Expressive Arts Exercise
To deepen into the word of the week, choose a quote, that for you, emotionally reflects the word.
To anchor the healing power of your weekly collage, write a short spontaneous poem that personally reflects your collage and chosen quote.
Cultivate Play with Expressive Art
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A Year of Healing Collage
I invite you to join me for a year of Healing Collage! This free challenge begins in January 2020 but you can join anytime HERE.
For this challenge, I invite you to do this companion expressive arts exercise to deepen and anchor the healing power of your weekly collage.
Expressive Arts Exercise
Week One Collage Contemplation - Calm
Quote:
“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe."
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Poem: Calm
Remain calm.
No rushing. No forcing.
Trust all will come together when fully ripe.
Cultivate Calm Through Intuitive Mandalas
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I invite you to join me for a year of Healing Collage for 2020! This free challenge begins in January 2020 but you can join anytime!
Method:
1. Consider the healing word for the week and see where it lands in your body.
2. Once you have anchored the good feeling from the word of the week, start to intuitively look for imagery that matches your thoughts and feelings about the word.
3. Create an intuitive collage. To find out how to make an intuitive collage go HERE.
4. You can download the list of prompts HERE.
Companion Expressive Arts Exercise
For this challenge, I invite you to do this companion expressive arts exercise to deepen and anchor the healing power of your weekly collage.
Expressive Arts Exercise
Facebook Group
Join me in the Discover Intuitive Collage Facebook Group HERE.
If you prefer Instagram use the hashtag #collageforself-discovery and tag me @shelleyklammer.
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