SoulCollage® for Helping Professionals

Special Programs

These programs were created to introduce professionals in the health and mental health fields to the therapeutic value of SoulCollage®. Counselors, nurses, psychotherapists, health counselors, drug and alcohol counselors, acupuncturists, homeopaths, naturopaths, and massage therapists will experience personal benefits while introducing their clients to a transformative new tool for ongoing self care and soul-tending.

Mariabruna and her co-facilitators (or the presenters she at times sponsors) have a proven track record as informed and engaging speakers. The workshops are designed to nurture professional and personal growth. The schedule varies, depending on the venue and the time frame, but it always allows for hands-on experiences, reflection and meaningful group sharing.

Continuing Education Units are provided for MFTs and LCSWs in California (BBS Approved Provider #3049)

SoulCollage® in a Therapeutic Setting

Although SoulCollage® is a valuable and effective tool in its own right, its applications under professional guidance yield remarkable results. Seen from a therapeutic perspective SoulCollage is an imaginative process that fosters inner growth and outer change while engaging both sides of the brain.

Helping professionals have long been using Expressive Arts to help bridge the split between mind and body, between internal and external experiences. SoulCollage’s simple yet sophisticated theoretical framework adds another layer of investigative and integrative power. It fosters surfacing of unconscious material in a readily accessible way. It enriches and deepens the therapeutic work with an immediacy that provides profound corrective experiences. In addition, the client brings home a SoulCollage® card, the very object that has stimulated the experience, and can use the card over and over again to anchor the insight gained.

Being primarily a visual object, the SoulCollage card acts as a powerful symbol re-activating in the emotional mind of the client the positive experience it depicts every time s/he sets eyes on it. In the making of the card, the client engages both his/her kinesthetic and visual channel, later reinforced by the gestalted verbalization of the message/s the image holds. In this way, the client participates in the creation of her/his piece physically, emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually and spiritually. This multilayered participation is transformative and can lead to sustained change.

SoulCollage® Workshops with a Clinical Focus

A Choir of Healing Voices: An Introduction to SoulCollage® and its Therapeutic Uses

In this experiential workshop, you will learn the basic tenets of this accessible yet rich process, explore its rich theoretical roots (psychosynthesis, analytical psychology, etc.) and gain knowledge of its clinical applications (childhood memories, traumatic experiences, relationship conflicts, addictions, distorted self-image, inner conflict, etc.). The one-day format offers 6 CEUs. The longer version (2-3 days, depending on circumstances) offers 14 CEUs.

Bridges of Understanding and Cross Cultural Empathy

Writing exercises, group sharing, and Expressive Arts principles (including SoulCollage) help you access your own multiple social identities and discover how these internal identities are integrated or disenfranchised. You will create a collage of your own multiplexity and gain insights on the complexity of cultural identity formation. In this experiential class, you will use heart, mind and creativity to weave practical and authentic bridges of cross cultural understanding for yourself as a mental health practitioner and for your clients. This one-day program offers 6 CEUs.

Images of Light, Images of Shadow

Discover the Light in unexpected corners of yourself, and befriend the most challenging aspects of your life in this Advanced SoulCollage Workshop. Co-facilitated with Seena Frost, LMFT in the Santa Cruz Hills, California. Using your SoulCollage® Cards you will explore the interplay of Light and Shadow in your personality parts and in the Archetypes that inspire you. You will make new cards for your discoveries, find deeper meaning in your cards and share in group readings. This weekend program offers 14 CEUs.

Embodied Imagination: SoulCollage® and the Body

Co-facilitated with Miriam Goldberg, PhD, in San Juan Bautista, California
SoulCollage® opens the doors of our imagination and let us get closer to our essence through rich images and inspired words. In this workshop Miriam Goldberg, PhD, and Mariabruna Sirabella, LMFT invite you to animate the imagination by using movement, sensation and sound to explore the relationship between the imagination embodied in your cards and the one emerging in your body. The natural wisdom revealed in movement, vibration, responsiveness, and play support the intention of getting closer to the delicious experience of felt essence. A workshop developed from the exploration shared by Miriam Goldberg at the 2007 SoulCollage Conference.

Train to become a SoulCollage® Facilitator with a clinical focus

This uniquely designed program offers 36 CEUs for MFTs & LCSWs in California, including 6 mandatory Law & Ethics units. Certification for other professional categories is pending.

* Gain a direct experience of the symbolic therapeutic value of images.

* Make several SoulCollage® cards and refine your collaging skills.

* Gestalt your cards with the “I Am the One Who…” writing practice.

* Be guided and learn visualizations to work with the energetic dimension.
 
* Experience how this method supports the reshaping of one’s relationship with one’s history and inner self by freeing experiences stored in the right hemisphere of the brain and reprocess them through an intervention of the left hemisphere.

* Learn the many applications of SoulCollage®, including its use in Hospices, Recovery from addictions and Eating Disorders, overcoming the negative impact of Domestic Violence and with clients struggling with trauma, life transitions, relationship conflicts, aging and more.

*Explore how using SoulCollage® can help in affect regulation and in approaching one’s emotional wounds and shadow material with awareness and compassion.

*Discuss clinical vignettes and case materials.

*Discover how SoulCollage® helps in feeling more alive and grounded.

*Practice how to facilitate making SoulCollage® cards with individuals and in groups.

*Learn how to tailor the SoulCollage® method to fit into your practice.

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