I am involved in a 5 week coaching class to help me get clear on my business goals and take massive action to get there. Each week we will be having assignments to do throughout the class. One of the assignments is something the coach calls artist’s dates. You take yourself out. Your having a date with yourself to learn who you are and to fall in love with yourself. It’s to be a new experience, try new food, paint a picture, read a new type of book or something we would not normally do. So I put this out within my group of friends and they came up with several great ideas. One of them mentioned a new art studio that opened up in a nearby town (http://www.acmeartmokehill.com) that holds different types of classes. I looked them up and found they were having something called a SoulCollage class so I signed up.
The class description told me “SoulCollage is a creative process using images, intuition, imagination and the ability to cut and paste. Anyone can create a meaningful, healing and beautiful collaged card that reveals a part of their inner life. The number of cards to create is endless as we have so many aspects to who we are. In this workshop you will create at least one SoulCollage card and learn something about this amazing, creative process.”
Our card project was to tell about our “wild side”. We started with a quiet moment of guided meditation. You were then encouraged to imagine yourself going through a door and on the other side of the door you would meet your wild self. We were then directed to tables with tons of torn up catalogs and whatnot. We were instructed to find a face that just spoke to us out of the abundance of pictures and photos provided. We then needed to pick out a background for our card. These things were represent our wild side and the opening we passed through to get there. After we were done making the card we had to study it and explain it to the others in the class. We then had to use our imagination and our intuition to fill in the following statements.
I am the one who….
I want you to know….
The picture below is of my card.
The bottom face represents the face everyone sees. Stating “I am the one who” the world sees. I project a serene demeanor. I am peaceful and calm. The top face represents the hidden away wild side. Stating “I want you to know” that I am seldom seen. It is okay to laugh with glee and abandonment. Laughing and having fun with life is something you should do more often.
I have no idea why the psychedelic bus is there except that it was calling out to me in some way. I admit I went into this assignment thinking it was really kind of a hokey thing to do but came having had an enlightening experience. I would suggest this as a wonderful, fun, insightful project for anyone wishing to expand their spiritual, mental and emotional self-awareness. In fact it is probably something I will do some more of.
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