COLLAGE! Take a Heroine’s Journey thru a Full Day Workshop at MJ’s Art Studio – Portland, OR

Seeking to feel stronger, more centered, more fully present in your whole self?

Join me in taking some time to reclaim the power & focus of your inner heroine.

The works of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, & Maureen Murdock will guide us in creating a 3-part collage series.

We’ll explore the journey’s stages of separation, initiation, & return!

Description of Stages

1. The Summons, when one separates from limits of the familiar.
2. The Challenges met to become newly self-aware as a woman.
3. The Reintegration of one’s inner feminine and masculine aspects.

Join the heroine’s journey!

• Saturday July 18th, 10am-4pm
• Location: MJ’s Art Studio in SW Portland
• $175 inclusive. All materials provided

Location details provided after registration/payment. Bus #43 for public transport.

“Thank you so much for sending me the incredible mandalas your students have done in reference to the heroine’s journey… They are so alive. What inspiring work you are doing.”

—Maureen Murdock, author of The Heroine’s Journey

Why take this heroine’s journey?

Collage is a great medium to give ourselves powerful insights into our own life experiences. And as heroines we will reconnect to the previously discarded feminine identify imbalances. Reintegrating the strengths of both the masculine and feminine aspects of the self has us living in the wholeness of love and vitality.

Consider how dreaming weaves lived events into new scenarios, ranging from strange to mundane. And that these can affect our moods and attitudes upon awakening. Sometimes pleasantly. Sometimes not. And depending on whether or not we even notice our dreams, or are someone who journals daily about them, our awareness reflects a broad spectrum of what they can teach us.

Now translate this idea to that of random images torn, cut, and pasted. Instead of being abstract like dreams, these are actual images handled, and personalized, bit by bit. Imagery is captured, held in new compositions. This process continues until a creator feels complete; satisfied with their exploratory adventure.

Similar to when we drift to sleep, when we collage our unconscious minds become free to express what we can be unaware of in our waking lives. And so the previously unseen information can visually land and be considered as parts of our psyches seeking to be understood.