SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainings

2009 Trainings with SoulCollage® Developer, Seena B. Frost

Seena in circle of cards

2009 SCHEDULE

September 11-13 at the Presentation Center, Los Gatos, CA
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2010 SCHEDULE

March 26-28 at the Presentation Center, Los Gatos, CA

June 11-13 at the Presentation Center, Los Gatos, CA

September 10-12 at Villa Maria del Mar, Santa Cruz, CA


If you wish to be added to an email notification list to receive updates on our trainings, email Kylea with your contact information. There has been quite a demand for these Trainings, so please register as early as possible for the weekend you want to attend. Participants will be registered on a first-come, first-served basis.

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2009 Trainings with SoulCollage Facilitator Trainers (SCFTs)

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In addition to Seena B. Frost and Kylea Taylor, there are several SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainers who work under the auspices of SoulCollage, LLC to train SoulCollage Facilitators in diverse geographical areas.

INTERNATIONAL

Australia with Karen Mann
July 24-26, 2009
Soulitude Beauty & Relaxation Studio
Bulla - Melbourne, AU
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Ireland with Imelda Maguire
October 23-25, 2009
Carn Lodge
Ramelton, County Donegal
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UNITED STATES

California (Southern) with Mariabruna Sirabella
August 22-26, 2009
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Carpinteria, CA
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Connecticut with Anne Marie Bennett
October 9 - 11, 2009
The Guest House
Chester, Connecticut
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Maryland with Roberta Rook
July 10-12, 2009
Bon Secours Spiritual Center
Marriottsville, MD
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North Carolina with Mili Ballard
October 16–18, 2009
Charlotte, NC
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Ohio with Mili Ballard
August 21-23, 2009
Cincinnati, OH
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Oregon with Suzie Wolfer
April 23–25, 2010
Counseling Services of Portland
Portland, Oregon
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Washington with Noelle Remington
September 17-20, 2009
Talaris Conference and Retreat Center
Seattle, WA
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Description of the SoulCollage® Facilitator Training

Making SoulCollage cards outside

The SoulCollage Facilitator Training will focus on how to facilitate individuals and groups in making and using SoulCollage® cards rather than on participant card-making per se as in a SoulCollage workshop.

Anyone who is interested in forming SoulCollage® groups or in using SoulCollage® in already established groups (such as church groups, women's groups, senior groups, hospice, educational classes) or as an art technique as an adjunct to other kinds of groups, classes, or workshops is welcome to register.

These trainings have attracted many therapists and art therapists, as it appears many love the SoulCollage® process and see readily how it can be used in their particular work. Training participants network with each other and share how to adapt the SoulCollage® process to their clientele. Some ministers and lay clergy have also come to be able to facilitate SoulCollage® in their ministry. However, we want to stress that no degree or other credentialing is needed to register for this course and that enthusiasm for the process and its use in one's own life are the chief criteria for participation in the Training.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This course meets the qualifications for 18 continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. We do not have CEUs available for psychologists or nurses at the present time.

Preparation and pre-requisites

No degree or certification is required to take this training, but Seena Frost requests that participants prepare by reading the book, listening to Seena's two talks about SoulCollage on audiotapes (or CDs) and beginning to make SoulCollage cards for their own decks in each suit, so that they can get experience with their own card-making before working with others who are learning to make cards. Seena requests that participants bring all their SoulCollage cards when they come for the Training. To receive a certificate of completion a participant must attend and complete all sessions of this Training. Please find out the beginning and ending times scheduled and make your travel plans accordingly.

Persons who complete the SoulCollage training will receive a certificate of completion and may use the SoulCollage® trademark in doing individual or group work according to the Principles of SoulCollage®. Thus, SoulCollage trains, rather than "certifies", facilitators.

What the SoulCollage Facilitator Training Covers

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SoulCollage author, Seena Frost, will teach using her experience of more than ten years of facilitating SoulCollage in groups. The training will include:

• How to facilitate SoulCollage card-making, including ways to support self-esteem and avoid competition and self-criticism.
  
  
• How to implement a therapeutic structure which both protects and encourages self-discovery, without the facilitator doing therapy.
  
  
• Ways to adapt the process to different individual issues and different populations.

• Demonstration of ceremonial work with SoulCollage cards.
  
  
• Discussion about how to use the internet to support and encourage "SoulCollage" community, including the SoulCollage Facilitators' listserv or yahoo group, the Facilitator's "Neter Letter" newsletter, SoulCollage® Exhibitions, and referral listings on the website for trained SoulCollage® Facilitators.
  
  
• Help in envisioning a plan for facilitating SoulCollage that fits your own passions, intentions, and competencies.
  
  
• We will make cards, share cards, and use our own processes as teaching examples for facilitator training. Participants bring all the SoulCollage cards they have made so far to use in the group exercises Seena will be demonstrating.
  
  
• Kylea Taylor, author of The Ethics of Caring, will also share some ways to avoid the pitfalls and challenges that might arise when one is working with individuals and groups using the powerful spiritual and personal images of SoulCollage.