SoulCollage Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery and Community

by Seena B. Frost

SoulCollage® is an accessible collage process with practical applications that has a growing international community. It's easy to learn and it's inexpensive. Best of all, it inspires individual creativity and encourages good communication in families and groups. SoulCollage® is adaptable to many contexts and groups. Anyone can enjoy the multi-leveled, creative process. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, images you can find anywhere, and glue! When you have made some cards, you can consult them, asking important life questions and letting your cards speak your own intuitive wisdom back to you. SoulCollage® is fun to share with friends and in groups for personal enjoyment and self-discovery or to work with professionally, as a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator. Founder Seena B. Frost s first book ignited a worldwide interest in SoulCollage®, which invites anyone to be creative and undertake an adventure of self discovery. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, images you can find anywhere, and glue! After you have made some cards, you can consult them, ask important life questions and let your cards speak your own intuitive wisdom back to you. Frost's first book, SoulCollage®, now out of print, was a finalist for the Nautilus 2002 Book Awards for titles that contribute significantly to conscious living and positive social change. SoulCollage® has evolved into an international community of Facilitators and SoulCollagers enjoying and sharing this simple, yet profound process. SoulCollage® Evolving gives the basic instructions for how to make and do readings with SoulCollage® cards, and describes how individuals and groups are using this process with different age groups and in many socioeconomic, cultural, and religious contexts to discover their wisdom and change their world.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Reference, Art, Personal Growth

194 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

Reviews

[Claudia Loureiro · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book.
It seems that I've been creating soulcollage cards for several years now without knowing it. I don't call them that, for me they are Dharma Cards. It's very interesting how Seena divides them in groups because I started doing that intuitively, not naming them the same as she did of course: Community, Committee, Companion (animals that connect to our own chakras) and the Council Suit. My cards are also created randomly or intuitively, it is a process of self-discovery and I have created beautiful and really inspiring cards. Sometimes I do readings for myself with them and it has been amazing.
I use the A5 size instead of the 5 by 8 mat boards. I've already used A4 sized cards with cutout words from magazines, those I called Dharma Talking Cards.
This book is difficult to follow with little to no direction, on actually making a collage card. If you are new to soulcollage you should pick a different book. Maybe this book is for more advanced students who are looking for a deeper education about the background of the concepts.

[LuAnn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Explains the Soulcollage process and underpinnings very well. Author (and developer of Soulcollage) encourages doing it in a way that suits the individual and gives many examples of different collages and settings. I've been doing prayer collage for a while and while I don't know that I'll follow the Soulcollage methods, I was able to glean ideas that will expand my practice.

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This process is fascinating, though the book itself feels a bit scattered. Some of the terminology and practices also seem uncomfortably appropriative for me. YMMV though.

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve wanted to explore SoulCollage for awhile, and this book gave me a good understanding. I appreciated the discussion of both the overall plan along with the specifics of making/using cards.

I was frustrated with the author’s decision to appropriate figures/terminology from various religions. While I imagine it is to show the universal nature of discussions, it felt like a mix and match exercise of taking the good and leaving the rest therefore not being fair to the complexity and uniqueness of each practice. As someone who wants to do SoulCollage with others, I felt this would frustrate me if I connected with the officially trained facilitators.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Should be in my TBC shelf. It is a manual-guide for a therapeutic creative spiritual style of collage. I return to it for different sections on its tarot-meets Jungian style of imagery, archetypes to explore while creating a personal deck of cards. I find it gives me imagery I want to work with in other mediums and is an invigorating tool for a kind of visceral emotive art making start point. There are people certified by author to use in art therapy-like mode, for me,thoughtful inspiration and great for both making and reflection.

[Aníbia Machado · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maravilhoso! Livro muito prático, leitura fluida. Me ajudou muito a evoluir minha prática do SoulCollage.

[Pontiki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this in preparation for training. I like the concept of the suits and clear information about making cards. The readings are also explained well, and there is a lot of guidance about the process of accessing parts of your Soul.

Some information is a bit scattered in terms of card making, but I took notes to help my own understanding. The images can be a bit distracting, in my view, just a few examples would’ve been helpful, like in the centre of the book.

The last third if the book moves into less helpful information, though I liked the description of working with kids and in groups. I love the last chapter regarding Indira’s net.

[Tamara Suttle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I purchased this book because I was taking my first classes on Soul Collage. While I love the process and I loved the classes (taught by Nina Alenko), I did not find this book to be particularly interesting or helpful in learning the process. Hoping someone else comes along to expand on the (deceased) author's works to make them more engaging. RIP Seena!

[Olga Tsvetkova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Soulcollage was definitely a major game changer in my therapeutic work. The book describes the process and offers ways for finding your answers and healing yourself.

[Mary Sue Ulven · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-have book if you do soul collage or are interested in it. I've re-read various chapters multiple times and each time I take away a deeper understanding of this amazing process.