Training commences

 Today's post for the Ultimate Blog Challenge is brought to you by the number 4, ᏅᎩ (nv-gi / Cherokee) 

Let's honor the ᏅᎩ Suits of SoulCollage® (links to my posts last fall on each suit) 

• Committee (our inner qualities)
• Community (those around us; family, friends, public figures, pets)
• Companion (animal guides for each Chakra) 
• Council (archetypes)

This morning, my cohort for our SoulCollage® facilitator training will gather (virtually) for our Orientation. It's an exciting time, standing on the brink of a new adventure!

Over a decade ago, my friend Inga and I took a day long workshop, to meet and paint our Creative Muses. Our teacher was enrolled in the Color of Woman teacher training, and one of her requirements was to offer a painting workshop with at least two students - we were those students!

Good Medicine -2025

The questions Elisabeth invited us to consider, in preparation for that workshop are appropriate for my upcoming journey to become a SoulCollage® Facilitator.  

Gabriella - Muse of Creativity 2014

• which areas in your life have benefited and been enhanced by your acts of creativity?
• where are you maybe holding back from expressing yourself?
• when do you feel most in alignment with your soul and spirit?
• has your creative fire been nudging/calling you to show up for yourself and/or your community this year in new ways or directions? 
• what questions might you like to ask your Creative Muse, when you encounter her?

Desert Rose - (Committee) Igniting creativity 

After that early February workshop, I "painted up a storm," and the following winter, enrolled in the Color of Woman training myself, graduating in the fall of 2015. 

Over the next 5 years, I offered monthly creative circles, and taught a number of workshops. In 2020 I pivoted to offering the craft circles virtually, and supported/ co-facilitated several painting classes. (One in person, the rest virtual)

A little over a decade later, I still love painting, but find it a less accessible medium than collage, and many students question their access to 'creativity,' when handed paints and a brush! (And - it's way easier to store - and invite insights from - a stack of cards than a pile of paintings!)

This morning, I invite the Neters of the four suits to support me on this next phase of my creative journey! 

I'll pull a card from each of the suits to offer guidance each week, in addition to our other activities.