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Soulmap Journalling engages with the creative process to explore our inner landscape.
I believe creativity is a gift that all humans have access to that can help shape and mend our lives. When we use the page as a window for our unconscious and trust process over product, we create a relationship with ourselves, our inner lives and The Mystery which is generative and generous. My lineage in this work is Connie Solera and Chris Zydel. From these two i learned to trust the power combination of creativity and kindness and that is what i deliver in the process i have created, called Soulmap Journaling. With Soulmap Journaling we set ourselves free from the pressure of having to make something. We learn to find beauty in the process and come to honour the "ugly" parts of the process and our pages as generous and wise. With Soulmap Journaling we learn to turn up the volume on our wisdom and turn down the volume on the patriarchy and our inner critic. Each time we gather we work with a theme, selected from a deck of oracle cards to help focus our intention and energy - the synergy of the group is the ground for connection with the magic of the Unconscious. Chris Zydel calls this 'the Predictable Miracle". Each time we gather i will go over a technique, often linked to the theme that will help us find a way into our page. We use simple tools - a great page can be made with just a ballpoint pen and simple techniques - you don't need to be an artist to do this work, in fact it helps to not be full of the rules about how things should look - it allows you to be responsive to what is alive in you. |
If you can pick up tools, make marks and follow these three rules this process can work for you.
Rule 1: TURN UP BRAVELY - it takes courage to expose yourself (even if you are the only one who ever gets to see the page). There are so many things we learn to try and hide about ourselves. We have to cultivate courage to let this work live in us and support us.
Rule 2: TRUST WHAT ARISES - "What you mean that ugly thing that appeared?" or "That hideous colour that insists on me using it??" or "Why does that magazine image keep calling to me?" When we practise trusting what arises we practise surrendering, we practise trusting that we are held and being guided by our connection with the unconscious.
Rule 3: BE KIND TO YOURSELF - This is often the hardest one, particularly in the beginning. Luckily the page is a place where the medicine of kindness can be seen to actively work wonders.
When we practise these three things on the page it is easier for us to put them to work off the page. Everything that happens in Soulmap Journaling can be transferred into our ordinary reality.
Rule 1: TURN UP BRAVELY - it takes courage to expose yourself (even if you are the only one who ever gets to see the page). There are so many things we learn to try and hide about ourselves. We have to cultivate courage to let this work live in us and support us.
Rule 2: TRUST WHAT ARISES - "What you mean that ugly thing that appeared?" or "That hideous colour that insists on me using it??" or "Why does that magazine image keep calling to me?" When we practise trusting what arises we practise surrendering, we practise trusting that we are held and being guided by our connection with the unconscious.
Rule 3: BE KIND TO YOURSELF - This is often the hardest one, particularly in the beginning. Luckily the page is a place where the medicine of kindness can be seen to actively work wonders.
When we practise these three things on the page it is easier for us to put them to work off the page. Everything that happens in Soulmap Journaling can be transferred into our ordinary reality.
Creating a soulmap journal is a way to listen to and respect your own process. The book becomes a repository for your deepest truths, desires and playfulness.
Soulmap online communityJoin other Soulmappers in an online community where we can go deep no matter where we live on the planet. Weekly classes and facebook community via subscription. We will gather for 4 weeks working with themes from the Sacred Rebels Deck by Alana Fairchild. All you need is a journal (this can be an upcycled book, sketch book or purpose made journal), good internet access, basic art supplies and a willingness to engage with what arises. (see the three rules above). "the page is me!" Lyn, long time soulmap journaler. When you are vital and free on the page you are creating permission for this vitality and freedom to accompany you in your conscious life. Beginning NZ time Wednesday 19 August at midday which is Tues 18th 5pm PDT, 6pm Mountain and 8pm Eastern. for 2 hours. Roughly 30 minutes for sharing about the theme 1 hour working on the page and 30 minutes discussing our experience. Group members will be required to work within the group boundaries which will be shared when you join up. Cost $100 ($25 per session) currency converter here please contact me here for details
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Soulmap one to oneWould you like to explore an issue or the process one on one?
We can work online or in person (in Whangarei unless you want to fly me to where you live!) to go deep with the process in ways that meet you. When we work on on one your enquiry will be amplified by the container soul map provides. I will support your exploration with questions, insights and by working with your theme on my own page. Together we will hold space for the unconscious to offer up support, suggestions and offer ways forwards. 'It's not all pretty, pretty, pretty; beauty never is."
Maeve Rhuad and Elizabeth Cunningham This is not about fixing you or changing you, this is about listening to what's happening in your psyche, receiving information from your unconscious and allowing yourself the space to listen and receive.
Sessions usually last an hour and a half, cost $120 NZ ( currency converter here ) and we need to book a time that works for us both.
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Soulmap MondaysThe group that started it all - Magic Mondays gather in my Studio in Kensington to work together. Classes are 10-1pm. Twenty dollars per session. All supplies, apart from journal to work in, are provided.
Please contact me here for further information or to register.
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