Q. I would like to bring SoulCollage® to my congregants. Can I do that without being a Facilitator of SoulCollage while just giving tribute to Seena Frost and you and others, acknowledging/copyrights . . . etc.? At some point I may become a Facilitator, I don't know; but I know it's not now.  

A. As for facilitating the amazing process that is SoulColllage®, the only people with blessing and permission to do so are those who have completed a Facilitator Training.  

Even if you do go through that Training soon, I wouldn't recommend sharing this with others until you've spent several more months making your own cards and more importantly, working with your cards in various ways. I have found that the most helpful Facilitators are the ones who have created a deeper understanding of the process based on their own work with their own cards.

I do understand your passion and enthusiasm for the process, and how eager you are to share it with others. At this point, since it is still so new to you, I suggest that you might simply share a few of your cards with others, and tell them about what you're learning without trying to teach them anything. Invite them to look at KaleidoSoul. There's also an excellent, comprehensive 27-page (fre*e) e-book that has the basic intro info in it that you could direct people to.  

You could gather some friends together, read through the book, make cards together, and maybe listen to/watch some of the classes on Kindred Spirits together. But you can't call yourself a SoulCollage® Facilitator until you've completed a Training.

Please print out the Principles of SoulCollage®, read them carefully and follow them. You can also share this handout with anyone who wants to know more. We follow the Principles to honor Seena Frost, our beloved founder, and to honor the process itself so it doesn’t get confused with other art processes out there or diluted from its original intention.

Please let me know your thoughts about what I have shared here. We are very conscious of keeping the SoulCollage® process as it was intended by Seena Frost and we honor her by adhering to the Principles.

Q. Seena Frost talks about not putting two energies together on one card. For example, don’t put your Wounded Child with your Curious Child or with the Happy Child (page 91, SoulCollage® Evolving). But what if we have our Wounded Child Card and we show a breakthrough on the same card . . . perhaps our Wounded Child being soothed or comforted by a Happy Child energy? Can you clarify this for me?  

A. Please consider Seena's words as suggestions. Of course, it's easier when developing a relationship with each Neter if there is only one energy on a card BUT . . . sometimes it works better for us to do it differently!  

Also, when we make cards intuitively without knowing what we're making, there's no way to know how many energies are on a particular card. 

If you have created a Wounded Child card that shows her/him/them being comforted, you might also want to make a separate card for just the Wounded Child, in order to honor that part of you who bears the wound. It might make it easier for you to work with that part in order to give full credence to its experience.

Just know that you have permission to make the cards however you want. As long as you're following the SoulCollage® Principles, it's all good:

What questions do YOU have about the process of SoulCollage®?

Send me a reply to this email and I will do my best to address it for you now and will possibly include it in an upcoming issue of Soul Treasures.

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