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What is a Healing Collage(sm)?

The Healing Collage(sm) is a fun, easy way to bring dream imagery into waking life.  Healing Collage(sm) is a non-verbal, creative means of accessing, interacting with, and deepening one's relationship with dreams, even in the absence of dream recall. Like the collage artist in the studio, the dreaming self loves to cut, paste, and move imagery around in a number of surprising, and occasionally, shocking ways to get our attention. 

Through Healing Collage(sm) you will: 

Dreaming is a highly emotional and visual state of consciousness. Upon waking, as one moves into the world of words and linear thought, it is only natural to try to articulate the dream experience in words. After all, verbal fluency is one of the great strengths of waking life. However, as useful as words may be in waking life, the dream itself remains an essentially non-verbal experience. When one relies primarily on words to bring dream content into waking life, a great deal is unnecessarily lost in translation. It’s hard enough to recall dreams without the additional burden of immediately translating them into words upon waking. 
 
The Healing Collage(sm) offers a non-verbal means of bringing dream material into waking life through the language of form and feeling. As artists throughout time have known, it is possible to bring dreams into waking life through the use of shape, texture, position and color. When one trusts the eyes and hands to guide the way, it is possible to transcend the limitations of words and culture. As Jung said, "Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."