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Articles by Mariabruna Sirabella, MFT
Dealing with the Shadow in the World
(presented at the 2007 SoulCollage® Pre-Conference)
When we explore our personal shadow in the safe container
of the SoulCollage process, we "invite" those inner disquieting
voices, our demons, for tea. Such civilized circumstances inform
the inhabitants of our disavowed unconscious that we accept
their existence and are open to courteous exchanges of news,
mutual requests and beneficial negotiations, but we do not expect
them to stay for dinner, spend the night or ever crash our parties.
In SoulCollage terms, their presence at the round table of our
Committee is made official. No longer are they allowed to sabotage
the assembly from under the table and, while they may not take
over the meeting, their mysterious instinctual vitality make
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Multiplexity – A Tool for Cross-Cultural Empathy
My personal and professional interests often lead me to address the unique and challenging features of this multicultural society that strives, or should strive according to its founding principles, to be an inclusive democracy. One of the greatest obstacles to achieving this ideal is racism, and one way to overcome this obstacle is to deconstruct racism so that we may overcome it on a personal and on a societal level.
When I lecture on this issue, I am aware of my inner search
for words that would illuminate without offending or making
anyone feel too exposed, words that would explain without patronizing.
Yet I also search for words powerful enough to engrave in the
minds and souls of my audience, and especially my White audience,
the non-negotiable moral and ethical responsibility to address
in their professional lives the many isms that plague our society.
Although our minds may easily become convinced of the social
and political necessity of doing so, for me the question remains,
“How do we involve the heart?”
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SoulCollage® ~ Seeking Wholeness in Partnership with the Unconscious
Imagine yourself pausing for a moment of reflection. Your
chosen source of inspiration is a deck of collaged cards that
you have created. You reach out and recognize the image you
randomly picked as if it were a member of your family. It is
in fact the symbolic reflection of a unique aspect of your inner
family. You remember the pleasure felt while creating it, and
you anticipate the dialogue this visual key is about to elicit
in cohort with your intuition and your inner wisdom.
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