The Collage Connection: Images, Metaphors, and Myth
Opening to the transformative power of tissue paper collage
October 10-14, 2015
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More information: www.tissuepapercollage.net
To register: Call (540) 514-0395 or email
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The Tissue Paper Collage Process invokes the beauty and mystery of our imagination. This method engages our inner world in a way that transforms unconscious content into visible form so it can be processed, understood, and integrated.
An inner peace arises from this process that can unwind our minds, supercharge our creativity and rekindle delight.
On this retreat we will create collages, engage in movement/dance, group meditation, and explore how the story of our inner landscape informs our lives. Using a new matrix of creative expression, inspired levels of insight can emerge in relation to self, family, community and culture.
9 Reasons to Participate in this workshop:
- Awaken the fire of creativity
- Allow intuitive intelligence to guide the way
- Break out of linear thinking to express freely in images, color, movement and sound
- Cultivate self-awareness and open vision
- Discover the symbolic language of the unconscious
- Unearth the metaphors living in the body
- Acess a more authentic and organic expression of self
- Ignite the heart with inspiration
- Reconnect to your sense of beauty
Karen Stefano, Ed.M., M.A., L.P.C., NCC, is an artist and practicing Licensed Professional Counselor. A trained sculptor and painter, she also draws on the synergy of expressive arts and counseling. Working with individuals, couples and groups – her approach is somatic, existential, and influenced by Jungian ideas.
Karen has been leading Collage Playshops around the world for more than 20 years. Bringing together the artistry of her creative work (she is a trained sculptor and painter), psychotherapy, and the quest for higher meaning, Karen’s goal is to establish unity between body, mind and spirit.
She has studied various applications of spirit and psychodynamic therapy, depth psychology and social dreaming matrix. Studying with many great teachers along the way, Karen has synthesized a creative and effective way of working with clients both individually and in groups.
Karen trained with Dr. Edith Wallace, the world-renowned Jungian analyst who developed The Tissue Paper Collage Method more than 30 years ago. Karen is one of the few individuals qualified to continue the work developed by Dr. Wallace.
Karen is a co-founder of The DuVersity, a non-profit educational organization devoted to building bridges between psychology and spirituality. She currently holds a private practice in Charles Town, West Virginia, and conducts her Playshop annually.